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IIdea from University Student Got Prize and Commercialized
- A wall-mountable flower pot from Jung Seung-Bin of PKNU was awarded for its design from Red Dot and it will be commercialized.
.JPG) The two main reasons that flowers die are because people water them too much or too little. However, a university student submitted an idea to solve these problems.
Jung Seung-Bin from the department of industrial design in Pukyong National University invented a wall-mountable flower pot, 'Rainy Pot'. The creative idea which combines utility and sensibility has received an honorable mention prize by the Red Dot Design Award which is one of three world famous design contests in the Red Dot Design Museum of Singapore.
"Rainy Pot" is a watering can that is designed to look like a cloud watering flowers with actual rain. Mr. Jung said that the point of this item is to encourage people to water flowers and to enjoy it through the fun of watching the water which looks like it is falling from clouds. He also said that he designed this so that flowers didn’t die because of people's laziness of forgetting to watering flowers.
The amount of water is also important. If we water flowers with a big, normal bucket it can give stress to plants. "To prevent plants from getting stressed, I paid lots of attention to controlling the amount of water, so that the water comes down thinly like a watering can. Approximately 80㎖ of water is the maximum amount for the cloud water bucket, which takes five minutes until all of the water in the bucket comes out," Mr. Jung said.
The awardee said he got the idea by chance from some wallpaper designed with a cloud that he saw when he was eating a meal in a restaurant. When he exhibited his item in the Seoul Design Festival last December, it had great appeal to people. As his item can show its power, he established his own company 'Daily life Lab' with the money (around fifteen million won) from the supporting fund for individual foundations of Busan design center. He said he will release the item 'Rainy Pot' to the market at the end of this month.
"I want to invent every-day-use items with simple functions through grafting design to the movement of nature stereoscopically. The final goal of mine is to be a global designer who can encourage people to use my items in a good way," Mr. Jung said.<Pukyong today>
△‘Rainy Pot’
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