Cheung Chau Bun + Coca-Cola

Hong Kong School of Design students design Cheung Chau Bun Coca-Cola bottle for the Olympic Games


The distinctive design of the "Cheung Chau Bun Tower" Coca-Cola bottle has won Luk Tsz-yan, Iris and Kung Tin-wing, Kelvin, students of SD, the championship at the "Art Jamming" (Hong Kong) Contest organized by Coca-Cola in February, 2008.

The winning design will be transformed into a 2-metre high Coca-Cola bottle and will be displayed at the Olympic Green in Beijing during the Olympic Games in August. As part of the winning prizes, Iris and Kelvin will be rewarded with free admission tickets for the Opening Ceremony and several matches.

A panel of seven judges have chosen the design by Iris and Kelvin as the champion from over 250 entries this year. Contestants were required to apply the tradition of arts, custom, literature, dramas and music of Hong Kong onto the Coca-Cola bottle in order to show the unique style and characteristic of Hong Kong.

Luk Tsz-yan, Iris and Kung Tin-wing, Kelvin are currently second-year students of BA (Hons) in Design in the disciplines of Advertising and Industrial & Product respectively at SD.
Their wining bottle is inspired by "Cheung Chau Bun Festival", the annual traditional event in Cheung Chau, and is fully covered by mini "Cheung Chau Bun" that has turned the bottle into a mini bun tower.

Iris and Kelvin have also altered the Chinese characters on the bun from its traditional characters "Peaceful" into "Brave", "Smart", "Fight", "Go", and "Hong Kong", among others. All the newly selected Chinese characters symbolize the spirit and hard work of Hong Kong people. Iris and Kelvin have spent two full days to design and produce the mini bun tower. (To view the winning design, please visit the official website (in Chinese only) of the contest: http://www.icoke.hk/coke_bottle2008/swf/index.jsp )

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STREAM-INN Indipendent living space for physically disabled people

by Altera Design Studio.
The Design Group is looking for an international producer or a sponsorship to cooperate in realization of the project

STREAM-INN is an ergonomic and accesible living space that provides a comfortable living space for 7-40 years-old wheelchaired people enabling them to do everything smoothly and without need of asistance.

Design Motive: Design for disabled will be crucial in the coming era. Happiness of individuals of globalized world depends on hapiness of everybody on the planet. So that, design of high-end luxury furniture are worthless while someone is struggling to live in an undesigned environment.

Design Description: Stream-inn is a motivating, ergonomic and accesible living space that provides a comfortable living space for 7-40 years-old wheelchaired people. Design aims an indipendent, safe and enjoyable daily life for physically disabled people at home, enabling them to do everything smoothly and without need of asistance.

 

Design Specifications:

        Work Station module is designed considering mobility limitations of wheelchaired people. A specialised streaming form of the table eliminates sharp corners that may hurt in case of accidential bumps.

        User can easily drive into the table and work comfortably.

        When opened, the lid of the module is designed to be used as a coffee table.

        Resting module is not only designed for sleeping, but also it provides an easy leisure space for reading, watching or listening activities.

        Streaming forms of the module eliminates risks of accidential bumps.

        The mobile head of the bed enables user to sit on the table comfortably.While sitting on the bed, user may easily reach to his books, dvds, mobile devices...etc, stored on the surrounding parts of the module.

        Wardrobe Module is designed considering accesibility limitations of wheelchaired people. User may drive inside the wardrobe and reach his hanging clothes with ease.

        At the four corners of the module there are four sliding lids which provides an easy workflow of storing stuff inside the wardrobe.

        The handles of the lid is specially designed for a better handling and sliding action with less effort.

        The orange color is specially chosen to improve motivation of disabled people inside the room.