Design Quarterly

Design Quarterly

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

 

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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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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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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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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Creator C-500

In a small kitchen, efficient use of space is of paramount importance. Pots and other utensils occupy a great deal of extra space due to their long and fixed handles, making the kitchen congested and messy. And this is a collapsible handle designed that allows the cookware to be neatly stacked and become almost ‘invisible’ in the kitchen, thereby increasing the utilization rate of kitchen space. After the pot handle is folded, we can have more space in a crowded kitchen and the pots can be placed more freely: stack them on top of each other or place crosswise with other kitchen utensils.

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Agape

agape is a new set of dining elements designed to facilitate interaction when sharing a meal. The way each element complements the others intentionally brings out food while beautifying its display. The angles of the pieces ensure their fit with one another for safe storage and help to scrape food from the borders of the bowls. The multipurpose pieces work well individually or in combination with others. agape crisscrosses the line between tradition and modern-day functional table objects by reinterpreting classical elements to suit today's lifestyle.

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