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Bronze A' Design Award in Bakeware, Tableware, Drinkware and Cookware Design Goes to Glacier Food Washing Machine by Xu Chen and Rong Zhang
Xu Chen and Rong Zhang recognized for bakeware, tableware, drinkware and cookware 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 announced that Glacier Food Washing Machine by Xu Chen and Rong Zhang, designed for China Innovation Academy of Intelligent Equipment ( Ningbo) Co., Ltd, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Bakeware, Tableware, Drinkware and Cookware Design category. The award was conferred within the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition and was decided through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who scored 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.
About Glacier Food Washing Machine
Glacier is a food washing machine for home kitchens. Glacier removes residual pesticides, heavy metals, fertilizers and bacteria with a hydroxyl water ion generator. The body is produced by injection molding in ABS and PC, and a large transparent area gives the machine a layered appearance. Abstract polygons and wide indicator lights recall a natural glacier and suggest purity and stability. A large control panel on the front holds buttons for meat, fruit and vegetables, so food is placed inside and one touch starts the cleaning.
About Xu Chen and Rong Zhang
As a design studio in China, “SX” stands for Chinese “ShangXiang” which taken from “Yi Chuan”. The name expounds our core opinion: To build significance of daily life through the observation, extraction, abstraction and reorganization of phenomena. sxdesign creates and values languages and ideas of client and user, such as requirements, knowledge, or the attitude of sxdesign itself.
Award Record
With this recognition, Xu Chen and Rong Zhang is a winner of 3 A' Design Awards. The awards were granted in the 2020 - 2021 edition of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Bakeware, Tableware, Drinkware and Cookware Design Award
The A' Kitchenware Design Award is an international design competition recognizing good kitchenware designs by best kitchenware brands and designers worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to kitchenware designers, product designers, industrial design studios and kitchenware brands from all countries. Typical entries include pots, pans, cutlery, plates, bowls and glasses. The awarded kitchenware designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/kitchenware
About A' Design Award & Competition
Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is 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. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously 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. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which 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, uploading a work and receiving a 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. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/123565
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/123565
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!123565
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/304255
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Glacier Food Washing Machine
- Function
- Food Washing Machine
- Category
- Bakeware, Tableware, Drinkware and Cookware Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Furniture & Home and Food & Hospitality
- Colors
- Dim Gray, Black, Dark Slate Gray and Midnight Blue
- Images
- 5
- Client
- China Innovation Academy of Intelligent Equipment ( Ningbo ) Co., Ltd
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Xu Chen and Rong Zhang
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2020 - 2021
- Design ID
- #123565
Credits
- Team
- Xu Chen, TianShu Liu, Rong Zhang, ShuLong Li, Qian Hao, FangBo Wu, BeiBei Liu, MingJie Zhang and Yan Liu
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Glacier is a kitchen food cleaner that effectively removes pesticide residuals, heavy metal, fertilizer and bacteria. The design purpose of Glacier is to express extraordinary cleanliness and high quality life attitude. The machine utilizes abstract polygons and large scale instruction lights to build a picture of natural glacier that embodies purity and steadiness. Usage of large area of transparent PC material brings rich layering and overall attractiveness to the machine body.
- Inspiration
- From our observation, target users who care about food cleanliness are also prone to life quality pursuance. Thus we build the machine's main body with abstract iceberg polygons to metaphorize the cold, clean and clear glacier that represent extreme purity. Together with the rich layer design, We enable Glacier to touch user's subconsciousness for stainlessness and to visually facilitate user's imagination for quality life.
- Research
- The technology of degrading harmful substance on food has not been widely known or accepted by major population. Instead of educating potential users with academic terms and specification, Glacier relies more upon dedicated overall design to boost its first image and captivation.
- Challenge
- Glacier needs to utilize minimalist shapes to convey a neat metaphor that represent its core function of cleaning, and thus exhibit an attitude for high quality life.
- Realization and Technology
- Glacier applies ABS and PC injection modeling. It contains hydroxyl water ion generator that degrade harmful substances in food.
- Operation and Interaction
- A large control panel is installed on front side of Glacier with bottoms indicating "meat", "fruits", "vegetables" and etc. User need only put food into the machine and touch the botton, then operate easily with instructions.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in August 2020 in Beijing and finished in December 2020 in Shenzhen, China
- Specifications
- Black or white body. Dimension: 305mm x 410mm x 285mm
- Keywords
- food, cleaner, washer, iceberg, glacier
