Design Quarterly

Design Quarterly

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

 

Himalayan

The 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.

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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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Popo

In 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.

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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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The Dew

Green tea represents not only the tea culture, but is healthier than its competitor coffee, or even black tea, its own kind. Therefore, that is why the designer created The Dew teapot, the function of the teapot is inspired by Italian traditional coffee maker. By playing with the air pressure upside down, the liquid of tea at the upper part return to the lower part and leaves the tea leaves at the upper part, the lower part become the teapot and the user could enjoy the tea.

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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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