Bronze Baby, Kids' and Children's Products Design · 2020
Wonderful Travel Children's Birthday Candles
by Yong Zhang
- A' Design Award 2020 Bronze Winner in Baby, Kids' and Children's Products Design
- Awarded April 15, 2020
- CLIENT: Liaoning Shihua University
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 18,066
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About Wonderful Travel Children's Birthday Candles
Wonderful Travel is a set of children's birthday candles based on a space travel theme. The set contains six characters, each with a name, a role and an expression, including astronauts, an inventor and a leader. Matching accessories such as a birthday hat are included. The candles can be arranged by hand, much like toys. Each figure is modeled and printed in three dimensions, then reproduced with silicone molds filled with liquid wax and cooled in cold water. The finished candles are made from a mix of beeswax and soybean wax.
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- Children's growth is accompanied by animation stories and picture books. Lovely, brave and villain characters are the images in children's games. Space exploration, ice and snow, Jurassic dinosaurs and marine science popularization have become familiar and favorite themes for children. "Space travel" is the theme of this set of candle design, which combines the theme and birthday atmosphere from the image role, story content and environmental color.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Two kinds of packing：1.60mm*60mm*90mm；2.160*40*150.
Single candle size:55mm*55mm*85mm - Tags
- Birthday candle, Children's birthday,Space travel
- Production Technology
- According to the design theme and story, design the characters, print the characters in 3D, make the grinding tools with silica gel, and finally pour in liquid wax, cool with cold water and demould. In the experiment, 58 types of paraffin were used, and the mixed proportion of beeswax and soybean wax was used in the finished product.
- Design Challenge
- Consumer psychology determines sales volume. Children's liking is not the only standard. Their mothers are the main purchasing groups. Their purchasing psychology is worth studying.
- Project Duration
- The project started in January 2019 at in fushun, liaoning province, China, and finished in July 2019 at in fushun, liaoning province China.
- Operation Flow
- Children decorate with hands, just like toys. Overall design of the suit, including birthday hat and other accessories. There are six roles in space travel: larey: astronaut, showing off, big eyes; Rilla: inventor, making his own spaceship; khaki: astronaut, carefree, like running; Smith: leader, experienced, beer belly; Maigey: astronaut, simple mind, surprised expression; Star: astronaut, big belly, tooth decay, fantasy.
- Research
- Nowadays, children's birthday has become the most important festival for families. Cakes and candles are necessary for birthday ceremonies. The market demand and usage of children's candles is huge, the style of market sales is single, the demand can't be met, so it has a good market development prospect. Candle production technology and process are relatively mature, with low investment cost and high profit.
- Inspiration
- Wax material is a local characteristic industry, selling raw materials for a long time. The local government has been looking for opportunities for wax products to create new products for the public through industrial design services. Electric light has replaced the function of candle lighting. At present, candles are used in ritual activities. Children's birthdays must be celebrated every year, the market demand is huge, and cultural product design is accepted by people.
- Image Credits
- Image #1: Photographer Menghua Wang, Variations, 2019.
Image #2: Photographer Yunhao Wang, Variations, 2019.
Image #3: Photographer Rongren Li, Variations, 2019.
Image #4: Photographer Yu Jiang, Variations, 2019.
Image #5: Photographer Yu Jiang, Variations, 2019.