Design Quarterly featuring great design, architecture, fashion, graphics and innovation from across the globe.
Glacier is a kitchen food cleaner that can remove residual pesticides, heavy metals, fertilizers and bacteria. Glacier is designed to express high-quality life attitude. The machine uses abstract polygons and large instruction lights to construct images of natural glaciers, reflecting purity and stability. The use of a large area of transparent PC material brings a rich sense of layering and overall appeal to the body.
Continue readingSpyker is a practical and beautiful trivet inspired by propeller designs of vintage airplanes. The Spyker trivet combines classic lines with contemporary materials. The stainless steel ring adds a subtle touch of class to the discreet design and comfortably fits into both modern and traditional homes. The functional design features a fingertip duct which allows the user to quickly open the trivet even while wearing oven gloves. When not in use this trivet loves resting in any kitchen drawer, standing up in a jar or hang suspended from a kitchen hook.
Continue readingThe designer integrates the elements of youth, fashion, simplicity, line sense and so on into the cup design. Its unique semi-perforated tea separator can effectively isolate tea leaves and solve the problem of tea regurgitation. The vacuum cup body is easy to carry and has strong adaptability. The concentration of the tea soup can be easily controlled. People can directly taste tea with one click of opening. The materials used meet the high hygienic standards and fill many shortcomings of traditional Chinese tea sets nowadays.
Continue readingA 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.
Continue readingIn this project,the human’s emotion is used as a factor of production to reach predicted level in productivity. These items brings a smile and nice feelings to your homes,a minimalist and emotional design which is inspired by a fictional world.This design is made from bone china. One of features of these containers are transparency lightness and high strength.The casting material is slurry(grout) of bone china,which is 50% bone powder of Cow.The function of items is simple and with ergonomic principles. All containers are static because the body’s center of gravity is calculated for them.
Continue readingThe 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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Design Quarterly featuring great design, architecture, fashion, graphics and innovation from across the globe.