Future Oven Design

For the correct realization of your proposals, keep into consideration the following guidelines:

The objective of the contest: the contest aims at reinterpreting the design of the future domestic oven in terms of style and aesthetics, envisioning how it will look like in 2025-2030, exploring new aesthetic codes, functionalities, control modes, and user interaction, keeping into consideration the commitment of the brand towards eco-compatibility themes.

Product typology: you are invited to imagine the aesthetic design of the domestic oven’s front, putting your attention on what the future evolution of the main aesthetic components might be, that is:
- handle;
- knob/s;
- profiles (aesthetic elements that complete the design).

Accordingly, try to envision what functions they may perform in the future and how they may be integrated into the design of the entire home-appliance. For some examples of the Anodic products and to learn more about how much care they put in the aesthetics of these components, please refer to the Company profile attached in the Material files and to relevant website section https://www.anodica.it/en/applications/home-appliances.html

How to use: in addition to the aesthetics of the products, you are invited to focus your attention on how the user interacts with the elements of the oven, exploring new solutions and envisioning innovative scenarios. For example, to-date the handle has the only function of facilitating the opening of the oven door but, in the future, it may offer additional functions. Currently, knobs too only enable the control of the programs and of the functions while profiles often play exclusively an aesthetic function; in the future, all these elements might have more than one function and, surely, they will play a more important role in the interaction with the user, also offering innovative ways to use them.

Size: the front of the oven is usually 60 × 60 cm, accordingly the dimensions of the components are generally:
- handle: 40-50 cm long;
- knob/s: 3-7 cm diameter;
- profiles: depending on the front, they usually have small and slim dimensions.

Materials: a characterizing element of the Anodic products – as well as a key factor that distinguishes the brand – is the selection of the materials employed in the components and in the aesthetic details. In particular, the core-competence of Anodic is the use of aluminum. In addition to this, you may suggest the use of other materials, such as plastics and glass inserts. NO other materials are allowed, including steel, Zamak, etc.

Production technologies: the components you design might require various processes of aluminum tooling, such as extrusion, turning, milling, bending, drilling and cutting, with various possibilities for surface finishes, including brushing, polishing, anodizing, varnishing/painting or others (tumbling, knurling, sandblasting, anodizing, PVD for color and coating). Plastic components, if any, shall be realizable through injection molding technologies. You may also suggest post-production processes such as gluing and joints.

Style: you are free to suggest the style you prefer, envisioning the future development of the aesthetic codes for this product typology, suggesting shapes closely related to the function they perform but also offering an innovative development of their aesthetics while complying with the premium character of the brand. The selection of the colors is at your discretion.

Logo: the Anodica logo (attached in the Material files), shall be visible on the components you suggest and might be realized in various modalities at your discretion, forex. silk-screen printing, laser engraving, etc.

Consumer typology: the oven you suggest shall be designed for domestic use, be installed inside the kitchen, keeping into consideration a very wide pool of consumers, already a target of the major home-appliance producers (see Inspiration tab for the links to the major producers).

Values to convey: your proposal shall comply with the Anodic values, always focused both on the aesthetic innovation – where it really stands out for the attention to details and finishes – and on the exploration of new functionalities.

Deliverables: upload all the images that better present your projects (rendering, descriptions, photo-realistic views showing the product in its context of use, finishes, colors, etc.), preferably including technical drawings or 3D files in.STP/.IGS formats, high-resolution renders, other views, group images, inside a.ZIP archive. At your discretion, the possibility to attach further materials to be included in the same archive.