Child Safety Pill Box Receives "World Student Star" Packaging Award

Recently, the results of the 2017 “World Student Star” packaging design award , known as the Academy Award for packaging design, was announced. The team guided by Associate Professor Liu Zongming of Hunan University of Technology won 7 awards in one fell swoop . Among these contested and award-winning ideas, an invention that focuses on children's safe use of drugs is particularly eye-catching.

In the Tianyuan International Student Pioneering Park, the reporter saw Liu Zongming and his student team. Just Harvest "World Student Star" honor Luoshu Yong and Wei Xueqi are focusing on new product design and development. Speaking of the idea of ​​a child safety kit design, Wei Xueqi said that it originated from a "Children's Drug Safety Status Report."

Wei Xueqi: “ 40% of all tablets are ingested. Children have strong imitation capabilities and medicines are easy to open.”

Wei Xueqi found that most of the medicine bottles on the market are used to rotate and open the lid, and this way is extremely easy to be imitated by children, causing the drug to eat. It is not an easy task to design a safe, yet practical and practical kit. But soon, to participate in an industry forum, so that Wei Xixing's teacher Liu Zongming has a new idea.

Under the guidance of Liu Zongming, Wei Xueqi and Luo Shuyong started to change their minds and converted the opening method of the pillbox from rotation to pressing.

Wei Xueqi: “ Putting it out by pushing it hard, but the child is not so strong.”

Luo Shuyong said that although the children are imitative, they have a single way of exertion. The combination of force methods is not easy for them to imitate. Because of this humanistic design, the child safety kit has won the “Star of the World Student” for Luo Shuyong and Wei Xueqi .

The team won seven awards in the competition will focus on vulnerable groups in the future

The “World Student Star” packaging design award is a high-level award for packaging design and research established by the World Packaging Organization for university and technical schools around the world. The 2017 “World Student Star” packaging design award is even more. Attracted from the United States, Japan, France, South Korea and other 24 countries and regions. Among the many competitions gathered by masters, the seven short-listed works directed by Associate Professor Liu Zongming have won the “World Student Star” award.

Next, the Liu Zongming team will also turn its attention to the design of smart products for vulnerable groups. Let good ideas bring more possibilities to our lives.