Design Quarterly

Design Quarterly

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

 

Caleb's Kola

Caleb’s Kola was made from simple ingredients, starting with sparkling water, fair trade cane sugar and kola nut extract. The small group of cola lovers who created Caleb’s Kola made hundreds of batches until they got it exactly right—with unique and delicious citrus and spice notes, bubbles that are exactly the right size, and a unique effervescence. The label design aesthetic ties to the simplicity of the product’s ingredients.

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Osoro

OSORO's innovative character is to combine the quality of high-grade vitrified porcelain and its typical ivory-colored glossy skin with the function suitable for preserving food in the refrigerator or freezer and for cooking with steam oven or microwave. The simple, modular shape with its various elements can be stacked to save space, flexibly combined and closed with a multi-colored silicone O-Sealer or O-Connector so that food stays well sealed in it. OSORO can be universally used eliminating the need for our daily life.

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Hopt

Hopt is a delicious clean soda fusing hop extracts with natural flavours and less than half the sugar of leading regular soft drinks. Through 'lean start-up' methodologies like rapid prototyping and extensive quantitative research, Hopt's multifaceted user-centred design unfolded. Over 15 features are built into each bottle, all offering specific benefits to the user considering their functional, social and emotional needs whilst socialising. Crafted by a team across Melbourne, Tokyo and Auckland, including agency partner Shine, Hopt was created in 2013.

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Only Right Here

Since the twelfth century the first bullfights were documented as an act or public spectacle. Today consciousness awakening of people is a symptom of an overall global assessment, being partakers of the divine nature, we are a whole. "Only Right Here" symbolizes a new era, where there will be an extinction of aggressive activities, being embodied in what once was a cultural feast, and the great evolutionary step on a humanistic level.

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Eclipse

The Eclipse noodle bowl set is designed with hot, delicious broth and noodles in mind. Each bowl is double-walled allowing one to hold and carry a bowlful of steaming broth without burning one's hands. The thin, or sipping, edge of the offset rim allows one to savor every drop of that broth. Available in a nesting set of three sizes, the larger two Eclipse bowls are perfect for adult eaters with different appetites, where the small is great either for a small child or for all those toppings to be added at the table.

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SpiderPan

SpiderPan is a cooking and frying pan set with foldable handles. There are three pans with different sizes. Small sized pans can be stored in the big one thanks to foldable handles. Thanks to these features SpiderPan save space. Additionally, users can fold handles while cooking in order to avoid some hazardous accidents result from long handles of classical cooking pans. Furthermore, these pans are designed with increased base surface which could raise energy efficiency.

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