A set of baby bottles designed by the Hsinchu County Government and designer Ma Shih-yun (馬詩韻) has won a Red Dot Design Award.
The set, intended as a gift to celebrate the first month of a baby’s birth, contains six bottles.
The bottles, made from borosilicate glass, eliminates the problem of residual plasticizers seeping into liquids due to heat, the county government said last week.
Photo: Tsai Chang-sheng, Taipei Times
They feature images of local specialty products, with four sets, it said.
The first set features meatballs and pines, which is the county tree, symbolizing family reunions and conveying “felicitous portents,” the county said.
The second set features a magpie, the city bird, holding a child, representing the joy of seeing a new family member, it said.
The third set features mullet roe and persimmons drying under the sun, promoting local products and representing the windyness of Hsinchu, it said.
The last set portrays peanuts, a local specialty, peanut butter and the Hsinchu coastline, representing the many things that families can do in the county, it added.
Ma said she has been an independent designer since 2005 and had wanted to design something for children after becoming a mother in 2015.
The sun, stars and the moon on the smaller bottles represent hope and a bright future and echo the background of the sea, the sun and the night sky on the larger bottles, Ma said.
The sets come with a note from Hsinchu Mayor Lin Chih-chien (林智堅), wishing that all children will grow up fast and enjoy everything that Hsinchu has to offer.
Hsinchu County Bureau of Administrative Affairs Director Pai Shu-hua (白舒樺) said the award encouraged the designer and the county.
The bottles were designed with a wide mouth to make cleaning easier, Pai said, adding that the bottle and the images comply with international standards.
The bureau said it was “not an easy feat” for the design to win an award from among 8,697 competing designs, adding that the design itself would be featured at the Red Dot Design Museum in Essen, Germany.
Tropical depression TD22, which was over waters south of the Ryukyu Islands, is likely to develop into a tropical storm by this morning and pose a significant threat to Taiwan next week, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said yesterday. The depression is likely to strengthen into a tropical storm named Krathon as it moves south and then veers north toward waters off Taiwan’s eastern coast, CWA forecaster Hsu Chung-yi (徐仲毅) said. Given the favorable environmental conditions for its development, TD22’s intensity would reach at least typhoon levels, Hsu said. As of 2pm yesterday, the tropical depression was about 610km east-southeast of Taiwan proper’s
RESTRICTIONS: All food items imported from the five prefectures must be accompanied by radiation and origin certificates, and undergo batch-by-batch inspection The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Wednesday announced that almost all produce from five Japanese prefectures affected by the 2011 Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant disaster would now be allowed into Taiwan. The five are Fukushima, Gunma, Chiba, Ibaraki and Tochigi. The only items that would still be blocked from being imported into the nation are those that are still banned from being circulated in Japan, the FDA added. With the removal of the ban, items including mushrooms, the meat of wild birds and other wild animals, and koshiabura” (foraged vegetables) would now be permitted to enter Taiwan, along with the other
A new tropical storm is expected to form by early tomorrow morning, potentially developing into a medium-strength typhoon that is to affect Taiwan through Wednesday next week, the Central Weather Administration said today. There are currently two tropical systems circulating to the east of Taiwan, agency forecaster Hsu Chung-yi (徐仲毅) said. The one currently north of Guam developed into Tropical Storm Gebi this afternoon and is expected to veer toward Japan without affecting Taiwan, Hsu said. Another tropical depression is 600km from the east coast and is likely to develp into the named storm Krathon either late tonight or early tomorrow, he said. This
DIVA-READY: The city’s deadline for the repairs is one day before pop star Jody Chiang is to perform at the Taipei Dome for the city’s Double Ten National Day celebrations The Taipei City Government has asked Farglory Group (遠雄集團) to repair serious water leaks in the Taipei Dome before Friday next week, Taipei Mayor Chiang Wan-an (蔣萬安) said yesterday, following complaints that many areas at the stadium were leaking during two baseball games over the weekend. The dome on Saturday and Sunday hosted two games in tribute to CTBC Brothers’ star Chou Szu-chi (周思齊) ahead of his retirement from the CPBL. The games each attracted about 40,000 people, filling the stadium to capacity. However, amid heavy rain, many people reported water leaking on some seats, at the entrance and exit areas, and the