Press Release
Soappy Hand Sanitizer Printer by Kai Li and Ran Zhang Wins the Bronze A' Design Award in Baby, Kids' and Children's Products Design
Kai Li and Ran Zhang acknowledged for baby, kids' and children's products design by the international grand jury of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2021 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Bronze A' Design Award in the Baby, Kids' and Children's Products Design category for Soappy Hand Sanitizer Printer by Kai Li and Ran Zhang. The result belongs to the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who evaluated anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
The Bronze A' Design Award Explained
The Bronze A' Design Award is given to outstanding designs that showcase a high degree of creativity and practicality. It recognizes the dedication and skill of designers who produce work that stands out for its thoughtful development and innovative use of materials and technology. These designs are acknowledged for their professional execution and potential to influence industry standards positively. Winning this award highlights the designer's ability to blend form and function effectively, offering solutions that enhance people's lives and wellbeing.
Regarding Soappy Hand Sanitizer Printer
Soappy is a hand sanitizer printer designed to encourage kids to foster the habit of washing hands. Most kids don't like to wash their hands due to the boring and tedious handwashing process. Soappy makes hand washing an attractive game by printing various hand sanitizer patterns. Kids can choose their favorite patterns and get them printed on their hands. Besides, Soappy provides different groups of patterns according to how dirty the hands are, which means the more dirt and germs the hands have, the more complex the patterns are, and the more hand sanitizer they contain.
Award Record
With this recognition, Kai Li and Ran Zhang is a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Baby, Kids and Children's Products Design Award
The A' Baby Products Design Award is an international design competition recognizing good baby product designs by leading brands and designers worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to baby product designers, industrial designers, toy companies and children's product manufacturers from all countries. Entries typically include strollers, car seats, baby monitors, high chairs, baby bottles and pacifiers. Awarded baby products designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/baby-products
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission to advance society through good design by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, the upload of a work and the preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/111145
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/111145
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!111145
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/286516
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Soappy Hand Sanitizer Printer
- Function
- Hand Sanitizer Printer
- Category
- Baby, Kids' and Children's Products Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Kids
- Colors
- Lavender, Light Gray, Dark Slate Gray, White Smoke and Peru
- Images
- 5
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Kai Li and Ran Zhang
- Country
- Great Britain
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2020 - 2021
- Design ID
- #111145
Credits
- Team
- Kai Li and Ran Zhang
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Soappy is a hand sanitizer printer designed to encourage kids to wash their hands regularly in a playful way. Like playing with a toy, kids can choose sanitizer patterns they like on the screen of Soappy and get them printed on their hands. According to the level of how dirty their hands are, Soappy can provide different groups of patterns. When the hands are dirtier, the patterns in a group become more complex, which contain more hand sanitizer.
- Inspiration
- Hand washing is a good way to keep kids from getting sick and prevent the spread of germs in day-to-day life. However, because the procedures of washing hands are dull, kids tend to ignore or forget it when not being guided by their parents or teachers before they foster this habit. Getting hand sanitizer is a must part of these procedures of handwashing and is a behavior that kids have interaction with an object-the container of hand sanitizer. We aim to create a new experience to make this interaction more playful and appealing.
- Research
- According to the research on kids and parents, children in many households don't like to wash hands, and it is a challenge for parents to lead their children to wash hands properly and help them foster a good habit of washing hands regularly. The bathrooms' environment in many homes is not attractive to kids in terms of colors and materials. Besides, the products designed for the procedures of washing hands in the market usually do not allow users to have playful engagements. The functionality of Soappy is realizable with the help of existing 3D printing technology, bacteria detection technology, and image recognition.
- Challenge
- How to integrate all the complex printing and detecting components into a relatively small product dimension is a challenge.
- Realization and Technology
- 3D printing, bacteria detection technology, image recognition
- Operation and Interaction
- Firstly, the child awakens Soappy by touching the screen and then places his or her hands on either side of Soappy. The sensor detects how dirty the hands are and generates a corresponding group of patterns. (The dirtier the hands, the more complex the patterns.) The child selects the pattern he or she likes and puts his or her hand under the printing area in the middle and waits for the hand sanitizer pattern to be printed. Finally, when the hands have been washed thoroughly, the sensor can check if the hands are clean.
- Specifications
- 130mm x 110mm x 220mm
- Keywords
- hand washing, kids, play, interaction, education, hand sanitizer, basin, patterns, printing, product design
