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Angel Group and Pininfarina Receives the Silver A' Design Award for Angel Golden Ratio Mineral Water Dispenser in Home Appliances Design
The international grand jury of the 2025 - 2026 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Angel Group and Pininfarina of Pininfarina for home appliances design
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COMO, Italy, April 15, 2026 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Silver A' Design Award in the Home Appliances Design category for Angel Golden Ratio Mineral Water Dispenser by Angel Group and Pininfarina of Pininfarina, designed for Angel Group. The recognition forms part of the 2025 - 2026 A' Design Award & Competition and was determined through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
What the Silver A' Design Award Means
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.
More About Angel Golden Ratio Mineral Water Dispenser
This water dispenser features an innovative dual outlet system that allows independent selection of purified water and mineralized water. Integrated mineral filtration provides controlled levels of calcium, magnesium, and potassium, enhancing flavor and suitability for daily consumption. The design includes intuitive controls, clear visual indicators, and real time monitoring of water quality and filter status. It supports a range of beverages, including tea, coffee, and herbal infusions, combining functionality, safety, and adaptability in a single household appliance.
About Angel Group and Pininfarina
An icon of Italian style, Pininfarina is recognized globally for its extraordinary ability to create timeless beauty through its values of elegance, purity and innovation. Founded in 1930, Pininfarina has transformed from a craftsman’s company into an international service group – the pinnacle of automotive style and a consolidated leader in industrial and experiential design, architecture, nautical design and other mobility sectors beyond the automotive. Employing 500 people, with offices in Italy, Germany, China, and the United States, the group has been listed on the stock exchange since 1986.
About Pininfarina
An icon of Italian style, Pininfarina is recognized globally for its extraordinary ability to create timeless beauty through its values of elegance, purity and innovation. Founded in 1930, Pininfarina has transformed from a craftsman’s company into an i
Award Record
This recognition makes Angel Group and Pininfarina of Pininfarina a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Home Appliances Design Award
The A' Home Appliance Design Award is an international competition recognizing good home appliance designs by best appliance designers and brands worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to home appliance designers, industrial designers, product engineers and appliance brands from all countries. Typical entries include refrigerators, dishwashers, microwaves, washing machines, dryers and ovens. The awarded home appliance designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/home-appliance
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/181883
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/181883
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!181883
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/380373
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://www.angelgroup.com.cn/product/Y3719BK-Gab
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Angel Golden Ratio Mineral Water Dispenser
- Function
- Mineral Water Dispenser
- Category
- Home Appliances Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Electronics & Appliances and Furniture & Home
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Angel Group
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Angel Group and Pininfarina
- Country
- China
- Brand
- Pininfarina
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2025 - 2026
- Design ID
- #181883
Credits
- Team
- ANGEL design team：, Dan Hanhua and Luo Yong
- Image Credits
- ANGEL
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- With a dual-purpose design, the dual water outlets allow for flexible switching between purified water and mineral water, easily adapting to diverse scenarios such as tea and coffee brewing, meeting the varying needs of the whole family. IOT+NFC builds a smart ecosystem, enabling all-time connectivity with touch-and-control convenience. It features a left-right partition design that clearly separates mineralized water from purified water, catering to diverse drinking needs.
- Inspiration
- To enable users to enjoy healthy mineralized water anytime, Angel has developed innovative home appliance technology that integrates advanced water treatment with intelligent sensing and control. This ensures safe purification of the water source and precise mineral supplementation, delivering healthy and reliable drinking water.
- Research
- Mineral water contains an appropriate amount of natural minerals such as calcium, magnesium, and potassium. Its smooth texture and naturally sweet taste enhance the flavor of teas and improve the overall drinking experience. 1. Tea Flavor Enhancement Tea Taste: Minerals reduce bitterness by neutralizing off-flavors, producing a smoother, sweeter taste for lightly fermented teas such as green, white, and floral varieties. Aroma Release: The gentle water quality promotes fuller extraction of tea compounds, resulting in a richer aroma without overpowering or trapping fragrance.
- Challenge
- The primary challenge of this design was to break conventional approaches and overcome product homogeneity. The team was among the first in the industry to integrate a mineral filter into a pipeline water dispenser, enhancing both the health benefits and overall quality of daily drinking water. To address the limitation of a single water outlet commonly found in pipeline dispensers, the project team developed an innovative dual-outlet solution for pure water and mineral water. Users can independently select the water type according to their needs: pure water is available on demand, and mineral water can be dispensed separately.
- Realization and Technology
- The patented calcium-magnesium golden ratio system: Mineral water can provide approximately 25% of the recommended daily calcium intake and about 6%-17% of magnesium intake. In its study Nutrients in Drinking Water, the World Health Organization further recommends that the appropriate concentration of calcium in drinking water should be 40-80 mg/L and magnesium 20-30 mg/L, emphasizing that the ratio between the two should be maintained within a scientifically defined range. Based on this scientific foundation, Angel introduced the all-new Golden Ratio Mineral Water Dispenser in 2025. The system simulates the natural formation mechanism of mineral water within the device.
- Operation and Interaction
- This pipeline water dispenser introduces a mineral water function in addition to its standard pure water output. When the mineral mode is inactive, the right-side outlet dispenses pure water normally. After installing the mineral filter, pressing and holding the "Coffee + Tea" button on the left side of the display for five seconds activates the mineral mode, accompanied by an audible prompt, allowing water to be dispensed from both outlets. The two water types are clearly distinguished through iconography. Pure water is represented by a simple abstract icon, while mineral water uses a scenario-based icon.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in November 2024 and finished in October 2025 in Shenzhen China and was available in market December 2025.
- Specifications
- 320 mm Width * 77 mm Depth * 430 mm Height
- Keywords
- Golden Ratio, minerals, wall-mounted, water dispenser, dual spout, ultra slim
