In 2015, the first issue of the Make the Unmakeable Design Competition by FATHOM presented the challenge to designers to solve their New Year's with a creative 3D printing product. Resolution (New Year's resolution, equivalent to the goal of the next year)

The winner of this competition was a big surprise. He stood out from more than 150 contestants and handed over his work as a bottle for planting flowers, The Grow Pod.

Grow Pod is a home-use plant planter with an automatic watering system on top that collects rainwater or stores your water, which is filtered to slowly pour water into the underlying soil. The lower part of the Grow Pod is where the soil is stored, either small plants or large plants

Its designer Devin Sidell said that Grow Pod's inspiration comes from home-grown vegetables. At home, they strive to provide plants with the growth elements they need: light, water, air, and stable space. Therefore, designing a product that makes home planting easy becomes his "New Year's resolution."

Due to the limitations of materials, many products must be broken down into multiple parts for molding and production, and finally assembled. It is this process of modeling that makes design compromises and even sacrifices. However, in order to optimize the production process, this is nothing to do.

Thus, when the "simple" design of Grow Pod really emerged, it became a rather amazing existence. The significance of this is that 3D printing has been able to transform the designer's design concept into a complete and almost complete reality. It has overcome the shackles that have made the excellent design concepts constrained for many years, enabling more aesthetic and practical products to be realized.

Grow Pod is not only about functionality, but also a great vision: when 3D printing is so popular, most designs no longer need to compromise the production process. The future is an era where designers can make a big impact.

As the judges said: Many people still stick to the traditional way of making. But with 3D printing, we shouldn't just focus on creating products that we didn't have in the past, or try to "redesign" existing ones to make them more design.