Silver Home Appliance · 2023
Af007 Single Dose Coffee Grinder
by Nicola Zanetti and Federico Gonzales Bosque
- Silver A' Design Award 2023 in Home Appliance
- CLIENT: Jiangsu Amalfi Machinery Equipment CO., LTD
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 44,704
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About Af007 Single Dose Coffee Grinder
Af007 wants to give a new level of precision and quality to your coffee brewing. The design follows a modern, minimalist aesthetic style; this grinder is constructed with a durable metal body, making it both long-lasting and easy to clean. Simply because of the geometric elements, elegant because of the clean shapes assembly, modern because of the UI touch interface, and fits all kinds of environments, professional bars, or home kitchens with the basic color palette chosen. Easy as a coffee.
About the Silver A' Design Award
Af007 Single Dose Coffee Grinder is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. Af007 Single Dose Coffee Grinder is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Af007 Single Dose Coffee Grinder is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.
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- Unique Properties
- A new level of precision and quality to your coffee brewing with our revolutionary coffee grinder. Designed with a modern, minimalist aesthetic, this grinder is constructed with a durable metal body, making it both long-lasting and easy to clean.
One of the most important factors in achieving a perfect cup of coffee is the grind, and our grinder is equipped with cutting-edge titanium ceramic burrs. These burrs are known for their superior durability and ability to produce a precise, consistent - Dimensions & Packaging
- Overall product dimensionis 335x245x460h mm and the weight is 8kg - Material is metal painted or brushed -Motor power is 400W brushless DC motor - Hopper capacity is 50g - 64mm flat burr with titanium or ceramic coating
- Tags
- Coffee, grinder, burr, flat, powder, beans, machine
- Production Technology
- Body is made by hi pressure metal injection molds, surface is painted or brushed.The flat burr are coated by titanium or ceramic to have a long life and precise regulation.
- Design Challenge
- Designing a minimal & modern coffee grinder was a challenge. Balancing form & function, integrating technology, and making it easy to use were obstacles. Historical & social perspective, production possibilities, information availability and technology were factors that were considered.
- Research
- We compared a lot of traditional and modern competitors products, We identified the style and the way to use the product that was matching with our idea and we translated it in a new product. Limitation from production point of view , made us come back to a more traditional shape and less innovative , considering not all the products can have an unlimited budget , we blanced the needs of production and the design push.
- Inspiration
- Investigating trends on coffee machines and coffee appliances, we took this simple, minimal and modern outlook style. Technology details such as LED lights or digital displays makes the grinder feel modern and high-tech. Minimal color palette, such as black, white, and silver, gives the grinder a sleek, modern look that comes already by the simple cilindric shape.
- Project Duration
- Designed in Italy by an international team of designers that worked online. Project was developed for th design phase on a tiem of six months and the final fine tuning of the design took around 1 month, after the engineering of functional details was completed.
- Operation Flow
- AF007 is an extremely simple and intuitive coffee grinder. The container or the filter holder is placed directly in the fork on the front side. The coffee beans are poured into the upper compartment and then the degree of grinding is selected by rotating the upper graduated cylinder. Finally, the grinding speed is selected from the interface on the product side and the coffee beans are ground and dispensed in powder form directly into the container on the front.
