Press Release
Yummy Toy by Hang Li Is Granted the Silver A' Design Award in Toys, Games and Hobby Products Design
Hang Li honored for toys, games and hobby products design by the international grand jury of the 2022 - 2023 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 20, 2023 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Silver A' Design Award in the Toys, Games and Hobby Products Design category for Yummy Toy by Hang Li, designed for Zhejiang University. The result belongs to the 2022 - 2023 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 scored anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
The Silver A' Design Award Explained
The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.
Regarding Yummy Toy
Yummy is a wooden toy set that offers a restaurant simulation play experience for children. The set contains a teppanyaki plate, a cash register, wooden ingredients and wooden menus. Two or more children can play together, taking the roles of customer and chef. The chef selects ingredients according to the menu, and coloured lights show whether cooking is in progress, complete or overcooked. The customer then gives an evaluation and pays. The play sequence teaches how a restaurant works and supports hands-on, cognitive and social skills.
About Hang Li
As an industrial design student from Zhejiang University, I try to make popular forms of interaction or products known and enjoyed by more people, so that more people can experience the fun of interaction in different forms. However, there are countless people of different ages, different economic levels, different health conditions, and so on, and even the so-called well-known things may be completely different from different perspectives. The meaning of industrial design is to create to the greatest extent possible, using the same materials and processes, so that the products and designs can serve more people.
Award Record
This recognition makes Hang Li a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Toys, Games and Hobby Products Design Award
The A' Toy Design Award is an international toy design competition recognizing good toy designs by best toy designers, manufacturers and brands worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to toy designers, game studios, industrial designers and hobby product manufacturers from all countries. Entries typically include dolls, action figures, board games, puzzles, plush toys and educational toys. Awarded toy designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/toy
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/144007
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/144007
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!144007
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/336232
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Yummy Toy
- Function
- Toy
- Category
- Toys, Games and Hobby Products Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Kids
- Colors
- Wheat, Bisque, Tan, Sandy Brown and Slate Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Zhejiang University
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Hang Li
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2022 - 2023
- Design ID
- #144007
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Designed primarily to provide a restaurant simulation play experience for children, the main body contains a teppanyaki oven, a cash register, a set of wooden ingredients and a set of wooden menus. The toys can be played by more than one person. By playing different roles such as customer and chef, children will learn about the restaurant operation process such as taking orders, cooking, serving and checking out, and develop their hands-on, cognitive and social skills.
- Inspiration
- Kitchen simulation games have been a huge success on platforms such as computers and mobile phones and have proved to be fun, engaging and popular with children. Wooden toys have the advantage of being environmentally friendly and safe. In today's society, virtual game simulations are highly enjoyable, but there is still a majority of the parent community that believes: physical toys are better for the healthy development of children.
- Research
- This project is a toy product design that attempts to explore the experience and optimisation of a physical multiplayer collaborative toy. A first version of the prototype was implemented using Arduino tools. The kitchen management game has gained popularity on digital platforms. We tried to make it physical and design it specifically for children.
- Challenge
- We tried to implement a cooking simulation using the NFC toolset. However, it was a relatively difficult development process to accurately differentiate the ingredients and to have the NFC module consistently read and represent the corresponding status in real time.
- Realization and Technology
- The design has been functionally tested twice on sample models. Materials: The wooden part of the prototype is made of linden plywood, including the wooden box, drawers and wooden components; the 'iron plate' part is made of matt acrylic PMMA with light transmission; the button part is 3D printed in resin. Functional realization: Arduino UNO for data processing, combined with RFID modules and RFID tags for reading and identifying "ingredients" and "menus".
- Operation and Interaction
- The players take on the roles of the customer and the chef respectively. Step 1: The customer selects the dish he wants and the menu. Step 2: The chef finds the appropriate ingredients according to the menu. Step 3: The toy will identify the ingredients and display the processing progress. A white light indicates that cooking is in progress. A green light indicates cooking is complete. A red light indicates overcooking. Step 4: When the dish is ready, the customer gives an evaluation and pays the amount.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project was launched in Ningbo in March 2022, the initial prototype was completed in Hangzhou in July 2022 and is still being optimized.
- Specifications
- 540 x 300 x 205 (W mm x D mm x H mm). The radius of the ingredient's averages 70mm to prevent accidental swallowing by children.
- Keywords
- Children's toys, restaurants, simulations, cooperative games, cognitive exercise, wireless interaction, cooking
