We hope that through the design of the flight lunch box and other related products for QATAR AIRWAYS, we can meet the needs of passengers for exquisite and quality flight trips, and create an ideal journey worth recalling.

Team Introduction

About Emirates

QATAR AIRWAYS, an award-winning airline, has won the "World's Best Business Class" award for the tenth time at the 2023 World Airline Awards, administered by international air transport rating organization Skytrax. In the prestigious awards held during the Paris Air Show 2023, it also won awards for Best Airline in the Middle East, World's Best Business Class Lounge and World's Best Business Class Lounge Catering. In addition, QATAR AIRWAYS has been named the "World's Best Airline" by Skytrax for an unprecedented seven times. The airline is still synonymous with excellence and enjoys a reputation around the world.

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Background

After preliminary research, we learned that QATAR AIRWAYS has a reputation for providing delicious in-flight food around the world, and many people choose to fly with QATAR AIRWAYS for the good dining experience, and after the experience, they will share it on social media. We want to help QATAR AIRWAYS build on its strengths and make its excellent food and beverage service an absolutely competitive highlight.

At the same time, we also learned that the cutlery provided by QATAR AIRWAYS for passengers traveling in economy class is not uniform in material and color, which brings a bad impression to passengers. In addition, the company has neglected to create a dining atmosphere in economy class, leading some passengers to think that the service they enjoy does not match the ticket price. Therefore, we hope to ease the conflict through a series of product design, to give passengers a better flight experience.

Story

Concept

In our user portrait, Ms. Lin is an enterprise white-collar worker, she loves travel and food, and pursues a high-quality life. In her spare time, Ms. Lin often reads various kinds of information on domestic and foreign social platforms, and a series of information about QATAR AIRWAYS is also among her concerns. Therefore, during this voyage, she hopes to enjoy exquisite and delicious food in an atmosphere. For Ms. Lin's son, Xiao Bao, we also want to take care of his emotions as much as possible, relieve his anxiety and restlessness during the long voyage, and make this long time more interesting and meaningful by providing aviation toys. We want to use the power of product design to give each passenger an unforgettable memory of their relationship with QATAR AIRWAYS.

Design

Children's tableware

The giant yellow bear, a landmark at Qatar's Hamad Airport, is a famous clocking spot for Internet celebrities. It was bought by the Qatari royal family for $6.8 million from Swiss artist Urs Fischer. The bear, according to the official description, "is a lively and lovely creation that humanizes the space around it and reminds visitors of their childhood and treasures from their hometown." The bear's highly saturated yellow color is memorable, and we wanted to bring this lively childlike feeling to our children's plates.

During the whole process, we went through three iterations, and finally pushed the simple and cute version, using the classic color scheme of QATAR AIRWAYS, and the simplified shape of Hamad Airport's light bear. In the details of the design, we make the dish can be just combined with the tray, which will lead to the structure is stable enough, children are not easy to spill the food when eating. After determining the effect, we made a model of children's tableware.

Final effect

Comments

"After the trial of this course, I think that the group work should be clear in advance of the division of labor, communication costs and other issues, as soon as possible to unify the plan, improve efficiency. At the same time, I have improved the capabilities in the field from time to time."

Yina Zhan

Adult tableware

In terms of reference elements, firstly, in order to increase the passengers' memory of the QATAR AIRWAY and make the connection between adult tableware and children's tableware, the shape of bear's paw was referenced in the design of the dinner plate. Second, Qatar is a country with a land to desert ratio of 10:9, and enjoys the reputation of "desert pearl" in the world. In order to highlight the national characteristics, we have adopted a simulation of the curvature of the desert on the tableware design, especially the plastic food cover. Third, in real production, in order to reduce costs and save energy and environmental protection, we can use the thinnest shape design as possible in the supporting part of the plate, and use green materials.

The first draft of this design adopts a more concrete form. In the subsequent modification, in order to be closer to the preferred style of adult users and more in line with the uniform tone of the whole group of products, we made a simple overlapping of product lines. In the process of modeling, we have made some attempts in the maintenance of the overall shape landing and the realization of the nested mode of each module. After determining the effect, we made a model of adult tableware.

Final effect

Comments

"I think in the design stage, we should consider the preferences and habits of the target users, and carry out the iteration of the shape. In the process of modeling, we should also consider the relationship between model form and landing, and do not design products that cannot be realized."

Shangji Wu

Ambient light

Elemental extraction from the Stadium de Lussel.usel Stadium is the "crown jewel" of the Qatar World Cup. The shape is the traditional Arab gold bowl, also known as the "golden bowl", which draws on Arab architecture and is inspired by Islamic date palm bowls and enamel lanterns, which is very Middle Eastern style. Relevant person introduction: General local families will use this gold bowl to put some dried fruit when entertaining guests to express the host's hospitality. The final field was selected in such a golden bowl shaped Lusel, the deep meaning behind it is to express Qatar's welcome and enthusiasm to the world.

QATAR AIRWAYS, as an important sponsor of the Qatar World Cup, borrowed the golden bowl shape of the stadium to reflect the national image of hospitality and increase the cultural connotation of the product. The combination with the glass can also adapt to the economy class space, and you can also enjoy the atmosphere created by the light when eating, and the overall effect of improving the dining experience.

In order to cooperate with 3d printing to present a better effect, the model improvement is mainly adjusted for the density of the pattern and the height of the bump. The final material part gave up acrylic, but directly used translucent printing materials and resin rings to achieve a soft light effect.

Final effect

Comments

"My feeling is that group work should be clearly divided in advance, adjusted in time to improve efficiency.At the same time, I need to improve my modeling and rendering ability and master the basic operation of different modeling software."

Shan Huang

Aviation toy

During the journey, if the child's attention is distracted by the toy, it can reduce their anxiety and restlessness for a long time . In the preliminary research, we found that QATAR AIRWAYS toys are only used for viewing, and can not produce more interaction with users . Therefore, we plan to design a puzzle toy, which can be combined with the iconic buildings, landmarks, aircraft models or IP of QATAR AIRWAYS, so as to increase interaction and leave a deeper impression on passengers.

We first chose Qatar's bulb bear as the combination object, but in the process of later reasoning, we found that the height difference of this bear is huge, the combination with Huarong Road is not so perfect, and the prominent part will increase the packaging cost of the toy. Therefore, the 25th anniversary of the QATAR AIRWAYS 777-300ER model was selected as the object of painting for the aviation toy. This allows passengers to leave a QATAR AIRWAYS memory after the end of their trip.

In terms of modeling, we simplified the aircraft on the basis of the original, and made it into a semi-three-dimensional form. In the third version of the model, we tilted the aircraft onto the model. This version solved the problem of blank space in Huarong Road, and made the model more visually full. In the last version, the opening key of the model was modified, and the overall structure was integrated with the shell of Huarong Road to avoid the problem of parts falling in use.

The color scheme and painting scheme of the overall model were determined by rendering: the color scheme was based on the classic color scheme of QATAR AIRWAYS, while the painting was based on the 700-333ER aircraft. Next is the production process of the physical model, the overall process is basically the same as that of other team members: 3d printing, material preparation and spraying in turn.

Final effect

Comments

"What I feel most in this course is that from the effect drawing of the model to the realization of the landing, it is limited by many aspects, such as some structures can not be mass-produced, or even can not be produced. As a designer, I also need more practical experience."

Jiahui Shi

Agarwood-scented wax tablet

The design of Agarwood-scented wax tablet is mainly divided into two aspects, one is the design of Agarwood-scented wax tablet themselves, and the other is the packaging design. The two aspects are advancing in concert

In the design of the Agarwood-scented wax tablet, the original plan was to directly print the shape of the product body to make silicone film, and then choose a direct printing mold to improve the production rate of the product, pour wax, and then release the product after cooling. The mold printing material is white nylon.

In this experiment, the situation was frequent, because the mold oil was not brushed in advance, the gap between the push mold hole and the push rod was too small to be printed by 3D printing, and there was no bevel in the mold, resulting in the difficulty of film pouring. Therefore, we changed the response plan, using the silicone film reversing process to find a specific shape of the model for silicone mold, after the wax water cooling solidified for repair, drilling holes and ribbon and other work. After many experiments, the product repeatedly adjusted the shape of the inverted mold, so that its plane is smooth and delicate, the facade is rough, the details are exquisite, and the overall touch is warm.

In terms of packaging design, we use the vacuum process to vacuum the plastic packaging, and the characteristics of the product are clearly displayed, making it a more complete product in appearance.

Final effect

Comments

"After this course, I think that the stickiness between the group work members is too high, which is a shortcoming and a characteristic.Individual work experiment nodes need to be pushed forward enough time to optimize output."

Yvonne Zhang

Products display

The overall tone of this series of products adopts the classic color matching of QATAR AIRWAYS , and the visual shape has a sense of design and the overall unity. Product portfolio to create a quality dining atmosphere, modular product structure to meet the needs of storage stacking. Simple and unique style and design care and a unique dining experience will increase customer loyalty and make passengers more likely to choose QATAR AIRWAYS again.