It’s time hand sanitizer packaging gets an upgrade, due to its current status as one of the most coveted products (along with toilet paper) during the coronavirus pandemic. 

The London-based design firm Bompas & Parr is asking “all creatives from around the world” to enter its design competition by April 5, 2020 – the Fountain of Hygiene.

The company states, “the project is open to all, inviting creatives, designers, makers and those with a good idea…” The judges will be looking for “design-inspired takes on the sanitizer pump.”

The winning designs will be 3D-printed and featured online in April and May, and included in a display at the Design Museum in London when it re-opens. The designs will be auctioned by Christie’s to raise money for the British Red Cross.

‘Seeking to Normalize Enhanced Cleanliness’

Bompas & Parr’s project brief for the competition states that its goal is to help in establishing “new behavioral norms” to “benefit the ongoing health of society” on a global level.

The brief continues to explain, “Through a rethinking of the gestures, rituals and communication of hygiene and sanitizer gel, the competition seeks to normalize enhanced cleanliness…to explore how people can safely move back towards the rhythms of their lives, pre-virus.” 

Collaborate With Your Kids

Bompas & Parr’s co-founder, Harry Parr, tells Design Week that the competition is open to anyone, and is encouraging designers to recruit their children to help. (This might be especially helpful if you’re in need of an art project for home-schooling during the COVID-19 quarantine.) 

Parr tells Design Week’s Molly Long, “With so many designers now working from home and many school closures it would be exciting to children collaborating with their parents. How would you work with your kids to imagine the sanitizer pumps, rituals and innovations of the future?”

Photos: via Instagram/Bompas & Parr

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