Design Quarterly

Design Quarterly

Design Quarterly featuring great design, architecture, fashion, graphics and innovation from across the globe.

 

Horizon

Horizon is differentiating from conventional welcome trays with several unique aspects. The concept of Horizon is making a welcome tray with completely sustainable materials. Besides that, it also has functional aspects. Horizon is also offering a different tea brewing experience with glass tubes. It also becomes different with the unique body design. The body of Horizon has a vertical wall that has a stand for glasses. The function of this stand is holding glasses and saving the glasses from the dust. All you need to do when you meet with Horizon is brewing a tea and enjoy!

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Marn

Having inspiration from the festive snacks of traditional Tainan culture (an old city in Taiwan full with cultural heritage), by transforming them into a set of hotel amenities, these series of festive snacks always known to the local as "Marn", means fulfillment in Chinese culture; turtle-shaped rice cake as hand soap and soap dish, mung bean cake as toiletries, tang yuan sweet dumpling as hand cream and steamed bun & Tainan brown sugar bun cake as tea set. Tainan culture heritage could be widespread to the world as the hotel is a nice platform to promote local culture.

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HelloDream Lovely Animals

Good design can bring the new experience to the daily life, and designers believe the HelloDream’s Lovely Animals Vacuum cup is just that kind design. Designers inspirited by Lovely Animals for the cup shaping and to coat light and bright trendy colors for cup coating, and all of them make the product adorable. The most brilliant design is the cuteness rabbit dog and cat cup cap which rabbit ears turns into the cup handle, The dog was wearing a scarf, The cat tilted its ears. And the good quality ensure the cup endured the cup weight of full filled water.

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Exquisite Moon Dreamer

The design is inspired by typical garden scenery in southern China and blends special elements of moon-shaped gate, Taihu stone, ancient window with assorted flower patterns and rippling lake view. The linear handler bridges both sides of the pot, just like the Broken Bridge at West Lake in Hangzhou. Under the “bridge” is water wave opening away circle in circle, creating a peaceful, quiet yet dynamic artistic experience at home. It creates such an experience that you may completely taste eastern aesthetics while making and drinking tea every day.

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Wei

As a way of life in China, drinking tea has a long history already. For the trend of many young people's getting used to drinking tea nowadays, team of Wushi is trying to present a minimalist and personal style of tea tray design. The shape is gradually changed on a plane, which increases the layer sense of the minimalist modeling and satisfies the natural elimination of the tea under the tea-making scene. The machining accuracy of the 3mm edge is guaranteed by the use of CNC, which can realize the original design principle.

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Tri Chapter

Tri Chapter tableware set is a drinking collection for people’s daily break time. Inspired by 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), mutuopia tries to bring the power of tranquility to people’s drinking rituals. Pulling away from the time & space currently inhabited, let people experience a magical journey from bud to neuron. Triangular and circular shapes are being played in both two-dimension and three-dimension to build sharp yet mellow forms with sleek lines and sinuous surfaces. Discretionary concerning about ergonomics, mutuopia makes this set functional, durable and as well as delicate.

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