I like the look of these Ripple Collection plates, but for the full effect you’d really have to serve a four course meal! I’m more of an entree-side-and-salad-all-on-one-plate person.
Available here.
Category Archives: Food
Twin One Cutlery Set
Also designed by the brothers at the UK-based designwright (see Pie Timer below) is the Twin One cutlery/chopsticks set for Lékué (see our post on their cool steam roaster.) It has the interlocking effect of the Join Cutlery (have I cross-posted enough?) but these have the added function of chopsticks with an impromptu spring hinge created once the knife and fork, on the opposite end, are connected..
Joseph Joseph Pie Timer
I don’t typically use a kitchen timer, but the beautiful design of this Pie Timer, designed by designwright for their company Joseph Joseph, could get me started.
The white analogue dial is only revealed when twisting to start the timing, creating the pie-chart effect.
Available here.
Tea Diver
Tea Diver, designed by AbelPartners Design Studio, was inspired by the traditional Korean diver, Meoguri, who relies on a cable attached to an oxygen tank for air. Fun twist on the usual tea infuser.
Available here.
Concrete
There seem to be an awful lot of things cropping up made of concrete, lately. I’ve always found the seemingly cold material rather warm. Maybe it’s the urbanite in me.
Clockwise from top left corner:
Kix-Berlin Concrete USB stick
Concrete Corbu Chair by Stefan Swicky
Corner Rings and Seven Rings by 22design studio
Loose Tea Container on Etsy
Pendant lamp Trabant 1 + Trabant 2 by Joachim Manz
Spice Rub Set on Etsy
Lavazza Coffee Machine by Shmuel Linski
Concrete Necklace by Bergnerschmidt
Festival of Ideas for the New City
We previously posted about the upcoming Festival of Ideas for the New City, here in NYC, from May 4-8, 2011, but now there seems to be much more information. The Festival is a “major new collaborative intitiative in New York involving scores of Downtown organizations, from universities to arts institutions and community groups, working together to effect change… It will harness the power of the creative community to imagine the future city and explore the ideas destined to shape it. It will take place in multiple venues Downtown and is organized around three central programs: a conference of symposia; an innovative StreetFest along the Bowery; and over one hundred independent projects and public events.” A small sampling of events and projects are pictured above (click image to see larger.)
Visit the Festival site for complete information on the conference, projects and street festival as well as for tickets.
via TheScout
Drink Tap Water Bottle
“The ‘Drink Tap Water’ bottle is a bio disposable plastic refillable water bottle with a lid shaped like a faucet handle. The motion of opening the water bottle is like that of turning on a tap, making us reconsider drinking from the tap rather than buying bottled water.” Designed by Junggi Sung.
Mono Cups
I might have to go from no-handle cups to mega-handle cups. I’m loving these Mono mugs by Norwegian design trio Angell Wyller Aarseth. “Mono has much of its character in the handle, which is grown out of the thin porcelain to provide a steering wheel or knob…”
Lekue Steam Roaster
The Lekue Steam Roaster designed by Compeixalaigua Design Studio of Barcelona “is a multifunctional bowl; it takes advantage of silicone’s flexibility to change its shape. In a closed position it combines the advantages of steam cooking with a crunchy finishing produced by the air circulation from its opened ends. When opened it is merely a bowl, but you can prepare, weigh and mix all the ingredients and even serve straight from the oven.” Available here.
Trattoria Utopia: Juri Cutlery
“Industrial design group Postfossil presents its new collection of home furnishings ‘Trattoria Utopia’ with the intent of bringing up the conversation of resource scarcity into the everyday lives of consumers.” The Personal Cutlery Set, in the top two images, is an answer to today’s increase in personal mobility with its ability to combine compactly for easy transport, while the bottom ‘5 forks on the Subject of Critical Design’ are designed with rounded ends to address the topic of meat eating by making it virtually impossible to skewer meat.
Made of chrome steel.
via designboom
Fia Carafe
The Fia Carafe by Swedish designer Nina Jobs, is at once elegant and playful. Love it.
Available here.
Morse Code Wine Labels
I know it should be more about the wine than the label, but for me it may be just as much about the label. I love these morse code labels for Henry’s Drive Wines. “The varietal of each wine is printed on the label in morse code.” Designed by Parallax Design in Australia. via Lovely Package
Festival of Ideas
“The Festival of Ideas for the New City, May 4-8, 2011, is a major new collaborative initiative in New York involving scores of Downtown organizations, from universities to arts institutions and community groups, working together to affect change. A first for New York, the Festival will harness the power of the creative community to imagine the future city and explore the ideas destined to shape it. It will take place in multiple venues Downtown and is organized around three central programs: a three-day slate of symposia; an innovative StreetFest along the Bowery; and over eighty independent projects and public events. The Festival will serve as a platform for artists, writers, architects, engineers, designers, urban farmers, planners, and thought leaders to exchange ideas, propose solutions, and invite the public to participate.”
Worth checking out, I think. More information here.
Valve Bottle Stopper
Fun! Available on Etsy, here.
Wearable Foods by Sung Yeon Ju
Korean artist Sung Yeon Ju made these dresses from fruits and vegetables as part of an ongoing project of constructed art forms made with food that she started two years ago. (Click on photo for more detail.)
“This series of her work forces viewers to defy the actual meaning, the functionalities, and the aspects of what clothing signifies in our lives. The essence of clothing and food has been reinterpreted. Each element does not fulfill its own role and yet, each suggests an unconventional and even contradicting role – un-wearable clothing that is made out of the materials that do not last.”
via Trendland
Slice
I spotted these Slice scissors last weekend at mxyplyzyk, here in New York. We are familiar with Karim Rashid’s green series for Slice, but hadn’t seen these. I love the clever logo, packaging, and brochure (by Manual Creative) as well.
Another Brick in the Wall…
My $20 kickstarter contribution got me my name on the wall…okay, so it’s by the bathroom.
CollabCubed 