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Key Dates

19 September - Launch Deadline
16 January 2025 - Standard Deadline
27 March 2025 - Late Deadline
25 April 2025 - Judging
8 May 2025 - Winners Announced

Multi-Functional Folding Baby Crib

Project Overview

This convenient, practical, and comfortable multi-functional folding baby crib features easy assembly and environmental friendliness. Moreover, its one-button folding design significantly improves ease of use or storage, and the folded product can serve as a small standing cabinet to effectively save home space.

Organisation

Hangzhou Tongji Technology Co., Ltd

Team

Hangzhou Tongji Technology Co., Ltd

Project Brief

Against the backdrop of fast-paced modern life and limited living space currently, traditional baby cribs always let parents down due to complex assembly and poor environmental friendliness.

To address that, the design team has developed this multi-functional folding baby crib, which offers parents a more convenient and practical solution, well meeting the needs of modern families. Its one-button folding design allows for quick unfolding & folding, and the unfolded product can serve as a small standing cabinet for placing personal items, facilitating convenient storage and saving more home space. Additionally, the crib, by virtue of its high-strength structure and adjustable guardrail, satisfies individual needs while safeguarding babies.

Project Innovation/Need

For more convenient storage and use, this crib incorporates a one-button folding design to enable quick unfolding & folding through a patented structure. Furthermore, the folded product can serve as a small standing cabinet for placing personal items, effectively enhancing practicality and frequency of use while saving home space.

The widened pillars made of integrated aluminum alloy not only ensure high stability and good support, but also perfectly conceal components when the crib is folded, presenting a sleek style. In addition, the adjustable guardrail provides 7 heights. This caters to the needs of different scenarios like playing or sleeping, and allows the crib to closely fit an adult bed for co-sleeping, strengthening the emotional bond between babies and parents.

Design Challenge

The biggest challenge was how to strike a balance among functionality, safety, and aesthetic appeal. To tackle that, the design team has applied durable and stable materials to the crib, ensuring that it still maintains high safety after frequent folding. Meanwhile, the widened pillars greatly improve the aesthetic appeal of the folded product.

Considering babies’ health, the mattress employs a three-layer structure (antibacterial Oxford cloth & high-pressure resin & PP board), neither too hard nor too soft, protecting the spine while offering a comfortable experience. The 5A antibacterial fabric effectively inhibits bacterial growth to protect the sensitive skin of babies. Moreover, the adjustable guardrail fully satisfies the individual needs of parents and babies, flexibly adaptable to various scenarios.

Sustainability

The multi-functional folding baby crib promotes environmental protection and showcases deep concern for babies.

It utilizes aluminum alloy and eco-friendly PP instead of wood to alleviate the ecological burden, contributing to environmental protection. Benefiting from the one-button folding design, the product can continue to be used as a standing cabinet after babies grow up. This extends its service life and avoids unnecessary resource waste, aligning well with the principles of sustainable development.

The crib also places significant emphasis on the health of babies. The 5A antibacterial fabric is extensively adopted to efficiently inhibit bacterial growth, so as to better protect babies’ health.




This award celebrates creative and innovative design for either a component or overall product. Consideration given to aspects that relate to human usage, aesthetics, selection of components and materials, and the resolution of assembly, manufacturing and the overall function.
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