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Campfire- Spice Container Set

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“Each spice has a special day to

it.”Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

IntentSpices are important to a meal but cannot replace a meal. However, people have created home DIY spice container for camping to add favours to their meals.

As a result, I would like to redesign a spice containers that are medium weight and portable for outdoor cooking by the camp fire side.

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Persona

“I do not stick to rules when cooking. I rely on

my imagination.”

Jen

46 years old female

Work as a chef for 15 years in a resturant

Knows what she is doing and not afriad to try new things

Owns a house and a dog with her busband

Supporter of fresh seasonal and local produce

Lovs the great outdoor of Vancouver

Spends almost half the summer outdoor with her busbnad traveling and camping

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Primus has been recognized for pioneering outdoor cooking since 1892.

A culinary life outdoors is something they strive for and they want to inspire people to go out and eat more often

They aim to develop products with as little environmental impact as possible with analysing the entire product life cycle in the design process.

Primus’ product can be seem as a reliable friend that will see regular use for many, many years.

Target Brand

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User Scenario

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Medium weight

Flexable with space and storage

Replacable storage component

Durable wear

Allow the user to have a choice over what and how many spice they would like to carry

Usage without physcial contact to the spices

Replacable parts

Hard in a soft case

Key Criteria

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Pior Art

Coghlan’s 9961 Multi-Spice Pack - Six Herb Assortment

$8.58

GSI Outdoors Spice Rack$ 15.99

Light My Fire Salt & Pepper Plus Spice Storage and Dispenser with Three Waterproof Compartments

$10.51

GSI Outdoors Spice Missile$9.06

Swiss-Spice Salt + Pepper Shaker$20.75

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Visual Inspiration

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Sketches

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3D Sketches

Container 1

Container 2

Container 3

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Container 1

This concept is inspire by the hourglass shape and the old fashion salt and pepper container. As a resutl, the design featuer a symmetry top and bottom , and a narrow center. The narrow center is mean to be the area to have strapping around to hold the container to a soft casing or with another contianer.

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Container 2This concept is inspire by the mid 19 century design of tea tin and cookie containers. The end result look like a muti-face test tube and I’m not happy with it.

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Container 3Container 3 is a combination of container 1 and 2. It carryies the muti-facing surface of container 2 and the hourglass look from container 1.

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3D Print

The 3D print come out slightly different compare to what I have in mind. The overall size it is smaller. I wish it could be slightly bigger by 1-2cm, as right now, the object can only hold maybe one oz of powder inside and nothing more. In addition, the wall thickness are thicker than I expect. The wall thickness turn out to be almost twice as thick as I would like it to be. Moreover, the extra materials on all the curved angels area is not ideal.

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Final Concept

The final design is based on the shape of the handle of Primus’ campefire cookware.

After looking through the three different container I have created, I felt all of them have moved away from the brand and the persona I’m trying to target. The shape and the feeling simply does not speak the same design language as my target brand. Therefore, I took a step back and did a close study of Primus’ campfire series. Through studying the shape of the cookwares, I have found my answer.

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Two part design lid that snap on and off the case. The sliding lid allows the user to have control over the amount of spice being sprinkle at each use without physcially touching the spice. It also fit the different type and size of spices.

Flat surface on both side for easy storage and can be easily stack mutiply cases together.

Slidable join hinge allow the case to be easily join with another case to form groups of 2, 3 or more.

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Material

Wood-Reclaim ash Hardwood that’s dense, tough, strong and elastic

Have a quick growing phrase

The fruit of ash tree provides food to other animals

Metal-AluminumContain the ability to resist corrosion

Soft, durable, lightweight and ductile

Theoretically, it is 100% recycleable without losing its natural qualities

Plastic-Polypropylene (PP) Can withstand heat and a high melting point of 130 °C

One of the common recy-clable plastic and has the number “5”

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Sustainability

0.12

0.67

0.01

2

0.00

75

0.00

75

0.00

66

0.00

19

0.71

0.62

0.13

0.11

0.08

9

0.07

9

0.02

2

A L U M I U M S T A I N L E S S S T E A L A R Y C L I C P P O A K A S H R E C L A I M A S H

Impact (mPts) Carbon Footprint (CO2 eq. kg)

Information generated from Sustainable Mind based on 2 oz as unit for usage per 5 year

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Just because you’re making dinner outdoors

doesn’t mean you have to cook like a caveman.”

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APPENDIX

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Initial Sketches

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Form Exploration

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3D Sketches

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Dead Ends and ProblemsOn the left, I got my measurement of the triangles wrong. For a period of time I was confuse why my shape doesn’t line up. Later, I realized that i have right triangles instead of equilateral triangles.

On the right, I was building a shelf for the containers. I mean to have the shelf so the con-tainers can be use as a system at home and at the campsite. Later on, I realized it is not necessary since most people wouldn’t bring their favourite cookware in the house with them to campsites.