Design Quarterly

Design Quarterly

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

 

GravitATE

A tableware set that invites and encourages users to share interactions and eat slowly. GravitATE contains three personal dinnerware items and three service bowls. It has the potential for movement and interpersonal interaction. The form invites and encourages users to share these interactions intuitively. The result is that users take their time, sharing conversation and savoring food slower than with traditional tableware. This provides a positive dining experience for all.

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Lucky Plate

The lucky plate is a set of plates that endow the meaning of luck, auspice and love. This innovative plate designs with emotions and a good taste. When customers are at table, a simple and solid plate with food on its middle makes a good combined pattern, a gradation from deep to shallow. The lucky plate itself also symbolizes the "gentleness" and "vitality". By the simple design, the lucky plate reveals and amplifies the social significance of grouped dining behind the food cultures.

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Villages

It is a set of removable ceramic suits of seasoning bottles. With their wishes, users combine the bottles and define the service functions, for example,placing them on a plate or with ornamentation. The village scene aims to bring more warmth and joy to the users, and the village provides a user-friendly and proper dining scene. Every time the users use it, they can gain a new and good physical and metal experience.In addition, the products adapt to the changes in the way of life and are not easy to get out of style or be in ordinary.

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Wild Cook

Wild Cook, is a device that can make your food or drink smoked. The using procedure of this design is fairly simple for everyone with no complications. Most people believe that the only way to make food smoked is by burning different types of wood but the truth is, you can smoke your food with lots of different materials and create a whole new taste and scent. The designers realized the taste differences around the world and that is why this design is totally flexible when it comes to the matter of usability in different regions.

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Innato Collection

The main challenge of the Innato Collection was to turn rapid prototyping into final products evidencing their design process and methods in a aesthetically coherent way. The product reflects the influence of technology and digital fabrication on the design of daily objects and use of traditional materials, in this case seen on the nesting and laser cutting of the 3d models. They evidence an almost direct transition from digital modeling, to prototype, to product, while showcasing the adaptability of such an organic material as ceramics into something geometric and modern.

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Hazuto

Hazuto is a fresh aesthetic on the ubiquitous kitchen board space. A brushed metal rim binds the board, protecting it from warping, splitting, knocks and drops. The metal-wood combination is a pleasing new tactile experience. The warmth of the wood contrasts with the austere stainless steel frame. The screws are characteristically placed to complete an industrial sensibility. A negative corner-space forms a handy hook. The singular shape is preserved, absent of unnecessary distractions or additions. The result is an efficient, clean, two-tone form that’s as eye-catching as it is ergonomic.

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