Emanuele Pizzolorusso's refillable bottles can guide you towards urban water fountains
Italian designer Emanuele Pizzolorusso has created reusable water bottles for use in ten global cities that list the locations of public water fountains on one side.
The half litre water bottles made from PBA-free plastic resin for Florence-based brand Palomar, have been designed as an alternative to plastic water bottles and to make finding a place to refill easier.
"I worked on what I thought would be the best proportion and size to perform the function of carrying half a litre, as well as displaying a certain amount of information. So it needed to be somehow flat and yet easy to hold in one hand," Emanuele Pizzolorusso, founder of design studio Pizzolorusso told Dezeen.
Each bottle is an identical shape, and has the name of a specific city written vertically up one edge. Pizzolorusso has designed bottles for Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Copenhagen, London, Milan, New York, Paris, Rome and Tokyo, and another bottle for Anywhere.
One side of each bottle features the locations of drinking fountains where users can refill them, divided up according to district. The Anywhere bottle instead has a short text playing around with the concept of filling a bottle.
"These available sources of drinking water, which are safe because they are highly monitored, are listed one by one with easy to find addresses," said the design studio.
For the cities that have many water fountains, such as Rome, Pizzolorusso made a selection of fountains, but for the majority o...
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