Acorn - 3-in-1 Baby-food Preparation Tool

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Acorn

3-in-1 Baby-food Preparation KIT
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Chicco / 2021 / Industrial design
Designed by Fuhua Wang, Weichih Chen

Acorn is the winning concept design for Chicco Let's go out to eat competition. Acorn is a 3-in-1 baby-food preparation tool that improves the parent’s outdoor eating experience. Acorn is composed of a minipimer, steamer, and food container. The shape of the Acorn is inspired by the Oak fruit of the Acorn that brings friendly and cute design language. The tools are very flexible and can be switched easily for different needs.

Chicco Let's go out to eat design competition - Special Mention

Project Challenge

The project challenge is to design a new product family for managing the preparation of food for the baby out of home, starting from the beginning of the weaning moment, up to the introduction of “adult” food, and potentially even after, with different functions. The product should be easily used during the different weaning stages, that means, it should manage different quantities and different kind of baby-food.

01 Steamer

To easily cook food outside, parents can use a steamer module which allows parents to cook the baby-food ingredient with a cup of water. The steamer can cook the vegetable, heating the ready meal, and warming up different baby beverages. The bottom of the container has a rubber piece that can be pulled out for leaving the venting hole while parents steaming the food.

02 Minipimer

With the minipimer module, parents can blend ingredients without any stress that makes the outdoor food preparation much simpler and easier whenever they need.

03 Food Container

The Acorn set has several BPA-free sealed jars and lids. After processing the baby food, parents are able to change the cap on the processor into the body of the jar. The volume of the jar is small and compacted, it's easy to store and carry on. Moreover, it is able to turn into a temporary bowl for feeding your baby.

Easy to carry out

Thanks to the Acorn shape, the product can easily stack one on top of the other, the shape also makes the base more stable when the parents use it outside.

Design Process

In our design process, we have deeply focused on the proportion, technical constraints, and each small detail to make Acorn the perfect baby-food preparation KIT. Considering this baby product will use in different environments starting from home to the park, all the moments are crucial, the product needs to guarantee security, bumping resistance, and also reach food safety we chose the food-grade PC plastic to keep bacteria away from babies.

Packaging

After the industrial design for the baby-food preparation KIT, we think it could be nice to complete this design concept with unique packaging. The graphic of this packaging is inspired by the crayon drawing that reminds our childhood. By adding the UV layer, we can easily highlight the graphic's details and elevate the packaging's quality.

DISCLAIMER:
This project was designed for the Chicco Let's go out to eat design competition hosted by Desall. Project ACRON is not endorsed by Chicco, its parent or subsidiary companies, nor is it intended to infringe on any existing or future material. The designer makes no claim to any of the designs, logos, branding, or names that are trademarked, copyrighted, or otherwise protected by any international or intellectual property or patent law. No copyright infringement is intended or implied.

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