Electronic cigarettes are the future! They’ve triggered a revolution in the world of nicotine, but what about an alternative for pipe smokers? This clever design uses the same personal-vaporizer technology in the form of the classic smoking pipe. Cheaper, cleaner, healthier, and cooler!
Designed with both smokers and non-smokers in mind, the Spiro system aims to provide a quick use shelter for those who want to smoke without disturbing others. Its high tech filtration system and functional shape create an invisible curtain around the user, preventing second-hand smoke from entering public areas. Without walls, it’s easier to move in and out of and makes responsible smoking less of a chore for those who enjoy their ciggies.
Spiro’s unique filtration system cleans the air with polarized media filter technology, which consists of a flexible activated carbon foam material at its base that works as a conductor for static electricity generated in the plastic fiber material on both sides. The carbon connects to powerheads in the air cleaner, where, under current, the plastic fiber material is charged , sucking bigger pollutants into itself from the passing air while the carbon neutralizes VOCs, harmful chemicals, smoke and odors.
The plastic fibers in the filter of Spiro Air Cleaners are cellulose acetate recycled from discarded cigarette butts processed through autoclaving and chemical treatment. This way, 95% material purity can be reached. The outdoor version has an ashtray to collect butts and ashes in the smoking area, like any other smoking shelter. An estimated 1.7 billion pounds per year is “wasted” from cellulose acetate by throwing it away in the shape of filters. It biodegrades very slowly, staying in nature with toxic chemicals seeping from the filters into water and soil.
The outdoor configuration of Spiro is an umbrella like folding shelter. It affords site-specific air cleaning where passive smoke is a problem in public areas, preventing it from moving into non-smoking areas by creating an air curtain around the perimeter of the umbrella. Because no walls are used, the space under the shelter is unobstructed as the single leg takes up little space. This allows users to move freely in and out of the umbrella.
Easy opening and closing of the umbrella is done by an inflatable rim under the arms, which is operated by a radial compressor connected to the air intake fan. The indoor configuration provides a versatile solution for indoor air filtering and can be mounted on the ceiling or as a standalone object. It circulates the air in the room by moving the air along the ceiling which then moves down the walls, pushing air at the floor upwards. Both variations have a lighting function with a dimmable LED light shell to be used at home as ceiling light or outdoor lighting.
Designer: Csaba Kálmán
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Design agency Continuum have created conceptual packaging for a single cigarette for smokers who are trying to quit.
The triangular pack contains one cigarette, two matches and a stick of gum.
The intention is that lapses in resolve lead to just one cigarette rather than a whole pack.
Here are some more details from Continuum:
Designing for failure is essential for success, or at least that’s what global design and innovation consultancy Continuum has found. When people make changes in their lives, whether it is flossing their teeth or quitting smoking, they will have setbacks. And when they do, it is easy to let that setback turn into a pattern of failure. While going a day without flossing isn’t a catastrophe, there is still an opportunity to help someone get back on track. For instance, Weight Watchers has flex points that can be used on one massive chocolate binge. In the case of smoking cessation, that desperate craving for just one cigarette can remain that: one cigarette.
You can design for that setback so it doesn’t turn into an entire pack of cigarettes. Design for resilience is being realistic that setbacks will happen, and creating safe ways to fail and bounce back.
After exploring this idea, Continuum came up with 1Z, the single serving cigarette.
They developed a back story of the fictional manufacturer (Bright-Leaf), and their reason for entering the market, and it helped to create a product brand identity for 1Z that worked with the form and the way the brand logo wraps around the box.
The name, 1Z, is a reference to “loosies,” the street slang for a single store-bought cigarette, and gently reinforces the quitting theme.
The triangle form for the packaging (see attached images) was chosen because it conveys that the product is something radically different from a standard pack of cigarettes.
Through exploration, Continuum found that a light touch with messaging around quitting was most effective; no one wants to be lectured. Instead, they had several subtle messages to support behavior change. The FDA offers several options for messaging on cigarette packaging and they chose the one related to quitting. The lid has a message, “In case of emergency, lift here.” And, the cigarette itself is branded, “Just one.” Finally, Continuum included a stick of gum as a quiet way to clear the taste from the mouth; to reset and get back to neutral.
Contents of the package were kept to a minimum: 1 cigarette, two strike- anywhere matches, and a piece of gum. As discussed above, the gum was included to provide an end point to the event. The gum provides resolution to that setback and offers a starting point to help the smoker continue quitting.
Continuum also considered manufacturing and production costs, and estimate this package will cost less than 10 cents to make, realistic for a $1-2 predicted price point. And the triangle shape is an efficient form for shipping.
Throughout the design process, they got feedback on iterations from a group of smokers trying to quit. Continuum wanted to include many different perspectives and opinions and this feedback helped steer the design in form, tone, and branding. The result is just a concept, but one which all of the smokers said would help them quit. In fact, one of the test subjects said, “I wish this was on the market today!”
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For Cool Hunting Giambrone created a healthy mix of mullein, mugwort, damiana, sage and lavender herbs, intended to ease stress and serve as an alternative to carcinogenic tobacco. Dubbed the Cool Hunting Herbal Smoke Blend, the concoction can be consumed on its own or added to other smokable herbs—especially those that may induce slight paranoia.
Selling from our CH Edition online shop for $15, the Herbal Smoke Blend comes with a pack of unbleached, 100% vegan rolling papers. More Good Fight Herb Co. medicinals can be found at Brooklyn’s Marlow & Sons General Store.
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