Design Quarterly

Design Quarterly

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

 

Diamond Wine Trivet

The Diamond Wine Trivet's construction in white oak is a modern reminder of the barreled aging process that transforms mere fruit into the nectar of the gods. It was created to cradle numerous bottles safely and be easily moved with its host. Also designed with scaling and multi-function in mind, it can be used to beautifully display and layer bottles on their side as wine is meant to be stored, or spread them out for display and selection.

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Tactica One

Tactica One is a precision bottle opening tool that reinvents the premium drinking experience. It is the worlds first composite bottle opener of its type and its unique design engages the user both visually and physically through its tactile surfaces. The composite material properties deliver functional performance in an ultra-lightweight and compact form.

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Wei

As a way of life in China, drinking tea has a long history already. For the trend of many young people's getting used to drinking tea nowadays, team of Wushi is trying to present a minimalist and personal style of tea tray design. The shape is gradually changed on a plane, which increases the layer sense of the minimalist modeling and satisfies the natural elimination of the tea under the tea-making scene. The machining accuracy of the 3mm edge is guaranteed by the use of CNC, which can realize the original design principle.

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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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