Design Quarterly

Design Quarterly

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

 

Air Kiss

Air Kiss is designed to keep coffee beans fresh for longer. Its curved lid goes into the canister to touch the beans, squeezing out excess air and reducing the contact with oxygen, preserving the taste and aroma of the coffee beans. The lid also features a convex dome that can be easily lifted with a finger tip in one second. Air Kiss also caters to personal preferences by allowing users to insert the coffee label, or write user's secret score on the soft-touch base which can be easily erased with an eraser. No more waste to our environment.

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Oslo 60 Pocket

Oslo 60 Pocket offers smart solutions for modern small and medium kitchens. Design Team's inspiration came straight from qualitative research backed up by quantitative studies. The key issue identified by consumers revolved around no good place to keep washing sponges, liquid as well as chopping board. Consequently, this was a key design direction designers aspired to deliver. Key design features are a pocket to hold sponge and dishwashing liquid as well as a chopping board holding slot. Both areas are equipped with internal water drainage (vertical overflow) to ensure hygienic operation.

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Island

Island glass was inspired by Korean islands, Dokdo and Ulleungdo. The inspiration came from the bottom of the glass after viewing the flipped-down soju glass on the table. Soju is the most popular Korean liquor. The glass shape consists of a streamline based on the shape of the Korean language at the bottom of the glass. The shape engraves an image of a floating island on the ocean when the Island Glass is displayed. The material consists of an unleaded crystal that expresses clear texture and delicate details and at the same time manufactured harmlessly to the human body and environment.

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Plycelain

Plycelain -a term coined by Yuting Chang combining plywood and porcelain- is a collection of multilayered slip casting drinkware. Chang creates a contemporary version of blue and white ware through applying slip casting, the mass-production technique of ceramics. By adapting the process of slip casting, layers form, and subtle blue lines are exposed on the cut surfaces, which emphasize the beautiful relationship between assembled parts.

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Attimo

Attimo (meaning "moment") tea set is made of first-class thin-walled bone china. The metaphor of the shape of objects is a stopped moment of time. The handle-stone falls on the smooth surface of the porcelain, and creates "circles on the water" running along the object. So every touch for the handle is a touch for frozen time. This complex asymmetric shape of the service items is especially difficult when implemented in porcelain. However, the use of the hollow handle technique, proactive correction of firing deformations, made it possible to achieve an ideal geometry.

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Timeless

Timeless by Alustil is a blend of artistry, functionality, durability, customisability and elegance in a kitchen. Their design entails a touch of nature expressed through vertical lines inspired by water streaming down a window. Impressions of vertical lines from the shelving, handles, pops of colours, surface engravings, and lampshade highlighted the water streams' expression through diverse elements. Each element is refined to maximise the possible performance, offering users a highly competent cook space while elevating every ordinary kitchen space into a masterpiece.

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Design interview of the day

Read the latest interviews and conversations on design, creativity and innovation between design journalist and world-famous designers, artists and architects. See latest design projects and award-winning designs by famous designers, artists, architects and innovators. Discover new insights on creativity, innovation, arts, design and architecture. Learn about design processes of great designers.

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