Feeling that eating sushi requires using a fish-shaped plastic soy sauce bottle is really unfriendly to the environment. Australian designers Angus Ware and Jeffery Simpson launched a table lamp shaped like a fish-shaped plastic soy sauce bottle in early 2020. Light Soy, encourages everyone to reduce the use of single-use plastic products.
Ware and Jeffery grew up living on the coast of Australia. They discovered that billions of fish-shaped plastic soy sauce bottles are used in sushi restaurants around the world every year. However, these soy sauce bottles cannot be reused or recycled. They are obviously supposed to have a pleasing shape. It is so ironic that small plastic fish will eventually harm the small fish that actually live in the ocean, and may even enter our food chain through microplastics. So they decided to change the design of daily necessities, from the initial product concept to the back-end logistics, they had to re-examine and improve them.
Light Soy comes in two styles, one is a USB portable desk lamp with touch dimming function and can be used for ten hours per charge, and the other is a pendant lamp that is directly connected to the mains power supply. The two designers selected glass and aluminum that are both durable, environmentally friendly, and recyclable as the materials for Light Soy, a lampshade made of mouth-blown borosilicate glass with a double-sided surface.The re-etched pattern perfectly replicates the original fish-shaped plastic soy sauce bottle. The red cap of the fish-shaped plastic soy sauce bottle has been transformed into an aluminum top cap, which makes people smile. In terms of product packaging, no plastic is used at all, but biodegradable materials are chosen, and upgraded sugar cane fiber is used to protect the glass. In short, every link has been carefully designed to be easily upgraded, repaired, and dismantled for recycling and reuse, minimizing the carbon emissions of the entire process. Finally, when Light Soy is launched, they will donate 1% of the sales proceeds to non-profit organizations engaged in ocean cleaning and protecting marine ecology.
Light Soy won the Japan Good Design Awards gold medal after its launch. The judges believed that Light Soy is full of humor and fun, and carefully considered the suitability of the products material and design, and won the gold medal. The extremely high social and artistic evaluation has brought positive impetus to the design community in this year full of difficulties, encouraging everyone to continue to innovate.
In the future, the two designers also hope to use more recycled plastics in their designs. This also makes us look forward to whether one day we can see fish-shaped fish-shaped plastic soy sauce bottles recycled from real fish-shaped plastic bottles. Desk lamp!
