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This Iron Frying Pan’s Sleek Detachable Handle Doubles as a Stylish Plate

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The allure of a delicious meal, artistically presented on a plate, is undeniable. While the endgame for all food is digestion, its initial presentation shouldn’t be overlooked. Professional chefs meticulously craft their plate presentations, but home cooks might not always share that flair. Some might even want to skip the transfer from pan to plate entirely. Enter the Frying Plate: a marvel of design fusing an iron frying pan with a plate, embodying the essence of Japanese minimalism.

Designers: TENT for Fujita Metal

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At first, the idea might seem unusual. Why eat directly from a frying pan? But don’t mistake Frying Plate for the typical, cumbersome pans we’re used to. Frying Plate is distinctive. Think of it as a cooking plate or a plate with a detachable handle. It offers a fresh perspective on the fusion of cooking and dining.

Central to Frying Plate’s appeal is its uncoated, robust iron base. This material allows for slow cooking on low heat, preserving the natural juices and ensuring the ingredients retain their crispness. Without the need to transfer food, you’re guaranteed a warm meal every time.

A common reservation might be the obstructive handle typical of frying pans. Frying Plate, however, has brilliantly countered this with a patent-pending sliding mechanism. This innovation lets you effortlessly attach or detach the wooden handle. It securely latches onto the plate’s rim, ensuring stability when lifting, without ever coming into contact with the food.

Fresh out of the packaging, the Frying Plate is ready to use. It’s unseasoned, stick-resistant, and a breeze to clean – no detergent required. Its minimalist dark iron surface accentuates the vibrancy of the food, turning every meal into an aesthetic delight. With Frying Plate, the line between cooking and dining blurs, offering a unified culinary experience.

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Top 10 Tableware designs to elevate your next dinner party

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One of the most intimate and bonding experiences you can have is sharing a meal with someone. And, when it’s at your own dinner table, the pressure to create an enjoyable and comfortable environment is higher than ever. A component that you can never truly ignore in a dining setup is tableware (the little things truly do count). Having excellent tableware is really important. It has the potential to completely transform your dining experience, taking away attention even from the food! Designers have been getting extremely creative when it comes to cutlery – from a minimal Japanse folding knife that can be hooked onto the edge of a plate to tableware made from walnut shell. Hence, we’ve curated a collection of innovative and exciting tableware designs that are sure to be the highlight of your next dinner party!

1. The Oku Knife

The Oku Knife is really a unique one. Designed the Kathleen Reilly, the knife is inspired by Japanese table settings and is equipped with an innovative handle that folds at 90 degrees from the blade. The interesting shape of the knife ensures that the handle can be placed on any surface, with the blade placed perpendicularly away from that surface. You can even rest the knife’s blade along the edge of a cutting board or plate.

2. Walnut Shell Tableware

If you mix walnut shells, pine resin, and Canauva Power you get NOS, which provides new CMFs with a wide range of colors, patterns, and light transmissions, since it involves grinding large volumes of walnut shells into different sizes. Pine resin is used to bind it. Once the shell of the walnut is separated from the kernel, it is discarded as waste. And this waste is being transformed into entire plates by designer SooA Choi!

3. Joseph Joseph Salad Bowl & Servers Set

Joseph Joseph and Element Studio collaborated to create this thoughtfully designed and minimal salad bowl and servers set. It’s an intelligent space-saving design since both products can be merged into one convenient product, seamlessly integrating functionality and form. It occupies a tiny amount of space on your dinner table or kitchen drawers, and it is also quite aesthetically pleasing.

4. The Hida-Cedar Bowls

Designed by Higashi Shunkei, these stunning woods bowl were created using cedarwood sourced from the forest in Takayama. Called, the Hida-Cedar bowls they are spun, finished, and lacquered within Higashi Shunkei’s workshop, and showcase a beautiful dark finish with light-colored bands, bringing to mind the image of a tiger’s striped skin.

5. Wasteware

Viennese designer, Barbara Gollackner collaborated with Australian chef and restaurant owner Martin Kilga to create the ‘Wasteware’ collection, a range of tableware made using leftover food! The duo created a collection of bowls, plates, and cutlery using industrial and personal food waste. To bring the interesting tableware items to life, the studio utilized food waste such as pork skin, and old bread – from personal and industrial waste.

6. The NEST

The NEST is a clean, minimalist, and monochrome salt and pepper shaker that is inspired by a bird’s nest. Designed by Mirko Romanelli, the shaker design was made from marble, imparting it with an elegant and solid identity. “The nest envelops, houses. and protects the egg inside. The aim is to work with marble through simple and geometric shapes such as the sphere and the toroid, enhancing the material aspect of marble and offering the user a product that gives great flexibility of use,” said Romanelli.

7. Brunetti’s Ceramic Mugs

These stunning ceramic mugs by Frank Brunetti feature a full matte monochrome appearance, accentuated by a touch of glossiness on the edge. The mugs are true beauties, and available in a wide range of vibrant color options, forming a colorful and playful pack of mugs when placed together on your dinner table.

8. Imre’s Hug Cup

Imre’s Hug Cup was designed with the intention that, “we give special attention to things we use in our everyday life. We like to have a personal relation to the objects we touch closely, such as a cup.” The internal handle of the mug is pretty unique, as it enables the users to grip the Hug Cup while feeling the warmth of the liquid contents inside!

9. Smogware

The Smogware is an elegant minimal porcelain tableware collection that is really quite unique. The designers harvested dust, notably air pollution from Rotterdam, Netherlands, and integrated it into utensils such as plates, cereal bowls, and coffee tables by harmoniously glazing the particles onto the items.

10. Art Deco Garden Collection

Each piece of the Art Deco Garden Collection is inspired by Japanese Zen Gardens and the age of Art Deco. The porcelain tableware shimmers in white and is lined with hand-painted golden patterns reminiscent of the Art Deco movement. Brass accents enhance each piece’s ode to Art Deco.

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Make more meaningful and memorable toasts with these stunning stacking sake cups

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There are quite a few things that have become iconic of Japanese culture, from clothes like the kimono to warriors like the samurai to food like sushi. When it comes to beverages, there is green tea and, of course, sake, both of which have deep cultural roots and, sometimes, solemn practices. You don’t, however, need to take part in an elaborate pouring and drinking ceremony to appreciate the rich experience when drinking this Japanese rice wine. All you need to create this sacred and profound atmosphere is the right drinkware, just like these finely-crafted tin cups that not only make drinking sake more meaningful, it even provides aesthetic value to your tableware.

Designer: Metaphys

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Drinking sake is a common part of Japanese life, whether it’s in social settings or more formal ceremonies. The rice wine can be served either hot or cold, with most drinking cups made from ceramic or even glass. What better way, then, to amaze your guest or even yourself than with an unusual sake drinking cup made from nothing but authentic tin, such as this unique and distinctive drinking cup set?

Authentic Tin – Authentic tin generally contains 95% to 97% tin, warranted by the Tinware Business Cooperative Association. The sake becomes pure and mellow when it is poured into authentic tin drinkware.

Tin might be an odd choice for drinking wine, but it actually makes even more sense when you consider how the material has been used for drinkware for over a millennium, thanks to its ability to absorb impurities and purify water. It’s also the perfect material for cold sake because it offers a softer and more comfortable texture for hands to hold while also making the sake taste smoother and more mellow.

What makes this tin drinkware special is more than just its composition. Designed to stack easily upon each other, the bowl-shaped vessels are uncommon for use in drinking sake or any other wine for that matter, and yet they also look elegant and pleasing thanks to their smooth curves. When stacked, the cups resemble kagami-mochi or traditional Japanese rice cakes, as well as the smooth stone piles found in peaceful Zen gardens. Even unused, these cups turn into decorative pieces that can become the centerpiece of your dining table or shelf.

Single Cup Edition

Two Cup Edition

Each piece of the stacking sake cups is made using ancient casting techniques by expert craftsmen that give tangible and beautiful form to this Japanese heritage. Whether you’re drinking by yourself with the single-cup configuration or toasting a drink with a friend with the two-cup set, the suiu stacking tin drinkware will add a spiritual flavor to your rice wine, immersing you in the deep cultural heritage of Japan.

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Tableware gets a new innovation with walnut shell materials becoming the new normal

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Designers love the term sustainability as it is their go-to when they can’t think of another way to sell their designs!! (I’m sure every designer would relate)

On a more serious note, they strive to construct a future along those lines because everyone is now aware of its importance and it is no longer a buzzword. Companies are now taking steps to ensure that their operations are sustainable, and governments are introducing regulations to encourage more sustainable practices.

Designers are becoming more aware of the value of a more in-depth, process-oriented approach. One such Korean designer observed the staple use of tableware in people’s lives and created a 100% natural material as an alternative to glass, ceramics, and other traditional raw materials used to manufacture tableware.

Designer: SooA Choi

Ceramics are the most used materials for the production of tableware. These materials are great but involve a lot of unsustainable properties concerning production. The material is complex to machine and can lose structural integrity if cut incorrectly or with the wrong tools. It requires high levels of expertise and leads to the wastage of raw materials. Machining ceramics and CMCs can be capital-intensive.

NOS is a mixture of walnut shells, pine resin, and Canauva Powder. It presents new CMFs with diverse colors, patterns, and light transmission as a result of grinding enormous volumes of walnut shells into various sizes. The primary binding agent is pine resin.

After being separated from the kernel, the shell of a walnut is considered waste and is discarded. The waste can be transformed into an entire plate from which to eat. Converting waste into a resource is an important aspect of sustainability.

The qualities of a walnut shell and wood overlap and can be used in everyday situations. Walnut shells are dry and hard, which works to their benefit since it stops insects from entering via holes and crevices, and it also makes them almost odorless. Pine resin is tree sap that is naturally antimicrobial and safe to consume in tiny doses. However, the soldering of pine resin is hazardous to one’s health and should be avoided during the manufacturing of NOS. Walnut shells are more durable than other natural materials, which wear away with frequent use.

The manufacturing technique for this material is quite simple and highly sustainable; no artificial additives are used. It only needs the appropriate ratio of binders, a mold, and ground walnut shells. To produce the required shape, the substance is poured into the mold. In the event of undesirable results during the NOS production process, the previous procedures can be repeated and no product is wasted. The completed form removed from the mold is fired at a high temperature of over 400 degrees to apply the glaze. Carnauba wax is poured onto it to increase durability and prevent scratches.

NOS is a versatile material used in various forms and sizes. As suggested it is used for tableware like small and large plates, glasses, vases, etc. It can also be used for other decors around the house since the aesthetic value of the finished piece complements a zen interior design.

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Essential glassware for your home bar

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Designer: LIITON

Staying in and mixing up cocktails on Friday nights can be lots of fun, and that’s why home bars form an integral aspect of design today. It is a spot where you keep your wines and spirits in order. Of course, it’s also a great place to store your glassware, cocktail tools, and a good recipe book. In a well-stocked bar, different styles of glassware are intended to optimize the drinking experience your guests are looking for. Here are some go-to pieces of cocktail barware that will help your guests and you enjoy a drink from the comfort of your home.

Designer: LIITON

Old Fashioned Glass

Double old fashioned glass

The Old-Fashioned glass, also known as rock glass or lowball glass, is the most common of all whisky glasses. Perfect for time-consuming drinks, it is a short tumbler with a wide rim and heavy base to hold them for hours. It allows the maker to muddle the ingredients in the glass, hence best suited for cocktails created within the glass. The classic Old-Fashioned glass is designed in a cut-glass style that the English adopted in the 18th and 19th centuries. It is designed to hold a large amount of ice and mixers, serving spirits like whiskey or neat with ice cubes and certain cocktails that are served on the rocks like old fashioned. Single old-fashioned glass has a capacity of 6 to 8 ounces, while Old-Fashioned double glass can hold 12 to 14 ounces.

Facts: Note that an old-fashioned cocktail is the first mixed drink that originated in the 1800s. It is made with whiskey, sugar, Angostura bitter, and cherry or orange peel for garnish.

Single old-fashioned glass

Designer: Artel

Collins and Highball glasses

A highball glass is tall and skinny and can hold 8 to 12 ounces, while a Collins glass is taller and can hold 10 to 14 ounces. These tall chimney glasses are suitable for serving sparkling cocktails that are usually prepared in the glass with a lot of ice, like gin-and-tonics, vodka-soda, bloody mary, and whiskey-and ginger. The Collins Glass is named after the family of Collins cocktails like Tom Collins and John Collins. These are essential every day glasses and a must-have for any home bar; they can serve soda, iced tea, juice, and non-alcoholic beverages. The Delmonico is a smaller version of the Collins glass with a flare on the top.

Highball glass

Designer: Modern Quests

Collins glass

Designer: NUDE

Coupe Glass

Designer: Tom Dixon

The coupe glass is a stemmed glass with a short, shallow glass and is also known as the champagne coupe or the champagne saucer. As the name suggests, it was initially designed for serving champagne, but now it is popularly for serving vintage-inspired cocktails and cocktails that are served with ice and then served chilled without ice. You can also float a large fruit on top of the drink.

The thick stem of the coupe glass enables the drinker to hold it comfortably, preventing the drinks from getting warm as one sips them. This glass is multifunctional and is perfect for serving pudding, sorbet, and ice cream. However, as these glasses are thin and delicate, they are likely to break.

Champagne Glass

Champagne Flute

Designer: Waterford Crystal

Raise a toast to a celebratory moment with the Champagne Flute! It is a tall and thin glass with a tapered rim, both about equal in length, and its straight sides create a sleek and streamlined look. The glass is designed to keep the champagne bubbles in the glass longer as it avoids quick loss of carbonation. In addition, its tall shape makes champagne’s fizzy bubbles look spectacular in a flute.

Champagne Tulip

Designer: Zalto

The Champagne Tulip is characterized by its wider flared body and tapered mouth. It does not trap bubbles, but some drinkers experience more full aromas in the tulip than the flute and enjoy a unique drinking experience.

Beer Glass

Beer has its own glassware set, and different beer styles are served in a specific glass. The three types of drinks include:

Pint glass

The Pint glass is a tall and tapered glass with straight sides. It holds 16 ounces and makes room for a full bottle of beer and its foamy head.

Designer: Restaurantware

Pilsner glass

Designer: Orrefors

The Pilsner glass took its name from the Czech city of Pilen and was originally designed for drinking Pilsner beer, but now they are also used for light lagers and blonde ales. The glassware typically holds 14 ounces and is characterized by a tapered design and a slight ballooning at the top. Its thin glass reveals the color and carbonation of beer, while its wider mouth allows one to enjoy the full aroma of the beer foam.

Beer mug

Designer: Nachtmann

In a beer mug, you can hold the mug without warming it with your hands, which is best suited for the average lager. It will hold between 10 to 14 ounces.

Shot glasses

Designer: JoyJolt

A shot glass was originally designed to hold or measure liquor and spirits, while the name shot pays homage to German chemist Friedrich Otto Schott who invented Borosilicate glass. These glasses come in many shapes, fun styles, and sizes. They are ideal for straight shots of liquor shooters that should be consumed in one gulp. Made from thick glass, the shot glasses have a reinforced base in thick glass so that the glass does not shatter when the drinker slams the glass on the table after downing the drink. Note that the shot glass size varies in each country and can range between 0.67 ounces to over 2 ounces.

Margarita glass

Designer: NUDE

The double bowl margarita glass has a distinctive shape and is a variant of the classic coupe glass. This glassware is primarily used to serve margaritas, while its wide rim makes it easy to add salt or sugar.

Vintage Wine Goblet

Designer: Lotus Arts de Vivre

Embrace opulence and sip your wine in style with over-the-top vintage wine goblets. These glasses have a regal touch and take inspiration from the old and antique. The glassware displays beautifully embossed or hand-carved designs and is crafted from glass with good weight. Perfect for serving ice wines, ports, Sherries, and even malts.

Wine Glass

White wine glass

Designer: Marks & Spencer

Red wine Glass

Designer: Zweisel Glas

There are two basic types of wine glasses. A white wine glass has a smaller bowl than a red wine glass, and the bowl of a white wine glass is less curved and has a narrower opening than a red wine glass. The larger bowled red wine glass can breathe more and come in contact with more air, which helps the wine’s bold taste to open up and display more aromas. White wine does not need so much space to breathe- the acute bow within the bowl and smaller glass rim help preserve white wine’s aromas.

Martini glass

Designer: Nachtmann

Named after and popularly used for the martini drink, the martini glass is characterized by its rim, conical shape, and long neck. The glassware adds sophisticated elegance and prevents the person from warming the drink with their hands; it tends to fill 3 to 6 ounces and is served without ice. The martini glasses are the ultimate way to serve a Manhattan, cosmopolitan, or iconic martini cocktail. These glasses can also be used as margarita glasses.

So now, it’s time to say cheers and ring in the good times with your favorite cocktail, juice, or adult beverage. Do not forget to create a well-designed space and transform your home bar into a unique entertainment spot.

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Top 5 tableware designs to upgrade your mundane dinner table

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At Yanko Design, we believe in constantly innovating, creating, and evolving. It’s a philosophy that serves as a lifeline for us, and one of the results of this lifeline is the YD x KeyShot Inspiration Hub! The Inspiration Hub is our ‘ever-expanding encyclopedia’ of design work for you to participate in, to inspire designers, and to get inspired by. Created in collaboration with KeyShot, the Inspiration Hub is your one-stop space for inspiration where designers like you can submit your impressive designs and be awarded to stand out in the crowd and to inspire other like-minded designers.

To kickstart your journey and send some motivation your way, we’ve curated some of our favorite tableware designs from the Inspiration Hub. These unique tableware designs will motivate you to create something spectacular and submit the design, as a gateway to sharing it with the best of the design world. Additionally, we will also be picking our favorite Design of the Week, Design of the Month, and Design of the Year – every week, month, and year from the submissions on the Inspiration Hub. Keep an eye on our Instagram page and the Inspiration Hub to see if your design gets picked. Fingers crossed!

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1. The Oku Knife

Designed by Kathleen Reilly, the Oku Knife was inspired by Japanese table settings and features a unique handle that folds at 90 degrees from its blade. The innovative folded shape of the knife allows the handle to be placed on a surface, with the blade sitting perpendicularly away from that particular surface. You can even rest the knife’s blade along the edge of a cutting board or plate.

2. Joseph Joseph Salad Bowl & Servers Set

Element Studio and Joseph Joseph teamed up to create this minimal salad bowl and servers set. This smart space-saving design allows both products to be integrated into one convenient product, while harmoniously unifying form and functionality. It is quite pleasing to look at and also occupies minimum space on your dinner table and kitchen drawers.

3. Brunetti’s Ceramic Mugs

Designed by Frank Brunetti, these ceramic mugs are truly a beauty to look at! He opted for a full matte monochrome appearance, complemented by a touch of glossiness on the edge. He envisioned the mug in a wide array of vibrant color options, so they look like a wholesome and colorful pack of mugs when placed together. These would truly be a vision of your dinner table.

4. Wasteware

Viennese designer, Barbara Gollackner collaborated with Australian chef and restaurant owner Martin Kilga to create the ‘Wasteware’ collection, a range of tableware made using leftover food! The duo created a collection of bowls, plates, and cutlery using industrial and personal food waste. To bring the interesting tableware items to life, the studio utilized food waste such as pork skin, and old bread – from personal and industrial waste.

5. NEST

Designed by Mirko Romanelli, the NEST is a minimalist black and white salt and pepper shaker that draws inspiration from a bird’s nest. The shaker design was built using marble, providing it with a sophisticated yet sturdy identity. “The nest envelops, houses. and protects the egg inside. The aim is to work with marble through simple and geometric shapes such as the sphere and the toroid, enhancing the material aspect of marble and offering the user a product that gives great flexibility of use,” said Romanelli.

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Rolls-Royce, Lamborghini, and Porsche-inspired wine bottles come with a stunning metal ‘chassis’

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With a metal exoskeletal framework around each glass bottle, these luxury-car-branded wine bottles are about as precious as their automotive counterparts. The bottles pay homage to four iconic car brands – Rolls-Royce, Ferrari, Lamborghini, and Porsche, with a design that embodies the crème de la crème personality of each brand.

Designer: Taron

The designs are courtesy Shenzhen-based artist and designer by the name of Taron, who relied on parametric modeling to create each unique bottle with its signature outer skeleton. Almost resembling the metallic chassis seen in most cars, these wine bottles come with a frame that feels organic and living, elevating the wine bottle from mundane to legendary.

The four iconic brands each come with their own style. The Rolls-Royce bottle is broad and isn’t afraid to occupy the space it does. The Ferrari bottle, on the other hand, is sleek and looks like it could cut through air. You’ve got a Lamborghini bottle above that uses facets and aggressive details to pay tribute to its automobiles, and a Porsche bottle below, with an exoskeleton covering a signature 911-inspired yellow body.

The luxury-car-inspired wine bottles are quite similar to Ross Lovegrove’s perfume bottles designed in collaboration with F1 back in 2019. These wine bottles rely on 3D-printing for their outer armatures too, while the glass bottle slides comfortably into the hollow chassis and is locked in place with a base and a cap. Sadly though, these bottles are conceptual, although I’d love me some Rolls-Royce rosé!

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MagSafe iPhone Stand Meets Travel Bottle: This genius design gives you a tripod in your water bottle

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The simplest ideas are sometimes the best. A beer-can holder in a cap with the straw going right to your mouth… and a water bottle with a built-in MagSafe stand for your iPhone. Absolute genius.

Picture this: you’re out and about, ready to capture that perfect shot or record a spontaneous video, but alas, you don’t have a tripod or phone dock on you. You do, however, have the Ringo Bottle, which has a clever magnetic stand built right into the bottle cap. Combining the practicality of a water bottle with the convenience of a MagSafe-compatible iPhone stand, the Ringo Bottle quenches your thirst while turning your smartphone into a tripod on-the-fly. No more shaky videos or propping your phone against precarious objects—now you can FaceTime, create TikTok videos, and shoot IG Reels like a pro, along with the benefit of having glowing skin because you’re constantly hydrated!

Designer: Ringo

The Ringo Bottle looks pretty much like any travel thermos you’ve seen… however, it comes with one key difference that sets it apart. No, it doesn’t track your hydration like those fancy-schmancy smart bottles, and no, it doesn’t have a UV light built into it to sterilize the insides. It does something much more ingenious. Look to the top of the Ringo and you’ll see a ring-shaped element on the top. Angle it upwards and the element works as a handle for carrying the Ringo around, but it also does something else that’s pretty remarkable. Built with magnets on the inside, the ring lets you snap your MagSafe-ready iPhone onto it, giving your phone a nifty, stable stand. It works rather intuitively without any adjustable clamps or grips, and is a handy little instrument to keep your phone propped up while you watch videos, take calls, or film viral content.

You see, the chances of you carrying a tripod or stand around with you are negligible, but having a water bottle handy is a much more likely eventuality. Whether you’re at work, at the gym, in the outdoors, or even in the kitchen, all you need is the Ringo and you’ve got yourself a reliable stand that works with iPhones or even other smartphones or tablets with the MagSafe sticker.

In doing so, the Ringo becomes a bottle you’re much more likely to carry, because you probably see it as a tripod first and a bottle second. It’s a clever cognitive shift that also ends up prompting you to carry your bottle everywhere, making you A. more likely to stay hydrated, and B. less prone to buying single-use plastic bottles. See? Genius.

The bottle itself comes with double-walled premium-grade stainless steel with vacuum technology to keep your beverages hot or cold for long intervals like a thermos. Hot drinks stay hot for a solid 12 hours, while cold drinks can last up to an entire day within Ringo’s insulated design. The cap is where most of the innovation lies, with a friction hinge that Ringo’s makers sourced from a to laptop manufacturer. Working jus the way the hinge on a laptop does, Ringo’s MagSafe ring can basically be placed at any angle and it’ll hold its position without shifting. The bottle’s cleverly designed to also be stable even when empty, although, for best results, it’s recommended to have the bottle filled for a lower center of gravity and a more stable outcome.

The Ringo bottle comes in two sizes – a regular 24oz (710ml) and a large 32oz (950ml), with as many as 4 color options to choose from. The bottles are designed with a wide mouth and internal threading, which means it’s easier to sip from and easy to clean too, and the bottle (sans the cap) is also dishwasher-friendly.

The Ringo’s appeal isn’t limited to just iPhones, though. Ringo’s makers even designed their own ‘Magnetic Booster Ring’ that sticks onto other devices including iPads, giving them MagSafe capabilities. With 16 high-powered N52 MagSafe magnets, housed within a strong polymer frame with an adhesive pad back, the Magnetic Booster Ring can even support the heaviest iPad Pro 12.9-inch tablet, suspending it securely from the Ringo bottle.

Ultimately, the Ringo is just an incredibly smart idea that solves more than just one problem. It’s a bottle, but it’s also a phone stand. It’s ubiquitous in a way that’ll make you want to carry your bottle around more, and stable enough to be used anywhere and everywhere, making it perfect for creators and consumers alike. Moreover, it’s designed to be reusable, pushing you to be less reliable on disposable single-use plastic bottles in the process. Never in my life did I think being obsessed with your smartphone would actually be helpful to the planet, but here I am, being proved wrong… and I love it!

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A Viennese designer shows us what to do with leftover food…make reusable tableware

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Viennese designer Barbara Gollackner collaborated with Australian chef and restaurant owner Martin Kilga to create the ‘Wasteware’ collection, a range of tableware made using leftover food! The duo created a collection of bowls, plates, and cutlery using industrial and personal food waste. They displayed these products at the Vienna Design Week in 2021, piquing quite a bit of interest, including even mine, now!

Designer: Studio Barbara Gollackner 

“The idea came from the fact that I read about Europe wasting 90 million tons of food every year and at the same time producing around 30 million tons of waste from single-use dishes. So I thought about ‘connecting’ these two issues and trying to make new materials out of food waste,” said Gollackner. To bring the interesting tableware items to life, the studio utilized food waste such as pork skin, and old bread – from personal and industrial waste.  The waste collected was dried out or cooked and then blended into a smooth paste which was held together using mycelium. Water or breadcrumbs were added to the mix if needed.

Once the smooth paste was prepared, it was inserted into a printer and 3D printed in different shapes. The studio was assisted in this by a chef and food designer Peter König. The end result was purple-colored teaspoons, beige bowls, and moss-green cups that form a minimal collection of tableware that can be used multiple times. “The designs had to be super simple shapes – we are just in the middle of the process and we are still experimenting with the right consistency of the printing paste – the designs can not have any supercomplicated shapes, it wouldn’t be possible to print,” said Gollackner.

“One way we use the waste that we produce ourselves, on the other side we use industrial food waste, like pork skin. There are huge amounts of pork skin thrown in Austria by the meat industry,” the designer concluded. The Wasteware collection is a commendable effort on Gollackner’s part to demonstrate that there are smart alternatives to simply throwing away food. Her reusable tableware is an excellent solution to the food wastage problem and a great example of how things can almost always be reused!

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McDonald’s France teams up with Elium Studio to create a range of reusable tableware to reduce waste

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Packaging is a major component of the food industry, and the fact that hundreds of millions of container boxes, cups, trays, cutlery, and cans are being discarded away, creating ginormous amounts of waste, and hurting the environment is an alarming concern. Single-use packaging is lethal to the environment, and it’s a sad reality that most fast-food chains serve their food in single-use containers and cups. And, McDonald’s is no exception to this! However, McDonald’s France has decided to take a step in the right direction, which is the more eco-friendly and sustainable route. Let’s find out more.

Designer: Elium Studio

The French global design studio Elium Studio collaborated with McDonald’s France to create reusable tableware that can be utilized in the iconic fast-food chain’s restaurants. Most of the containers used by McDonald’s today cannot be reused, whether they’re plates or cups, they need to be thrown away after a single use. France, as a country, has been taking holistic steps to reduce waste. For example, in January 2023, France announced that restaurants with more than 20 seats need to offer their customers reusable and washable serving container alternatives. So, this step by McDonald’s France is truly a move of solidarity in the right direction.

Elium Studio designed a range of rather colorful and cute tableware that will be made using ‘Tritan’. Now, what is Tritan? Tritan is a plastic resin that is similar to glass and ceramic in its hardness and transparency and preserves the organoleptic qualities of food, which basically means it successfully retains the taste and smell of the food. The tableware was integrated with vents, graining, and striations to impart it with improved functionality and elevate the customer’s dining experience. Elium Studio and McDonald’s France have been working on this project for the past two years, and the result is truly commendable.

The tableware products retain McDonald’s original essence and design philosophy. The container for the french fries is still the iconic red we are so accustomed to, however, it is a much more eco-friendly option, as compared to its predecessor. I do believe this initiative by McDonald’s France could encourage other fast-food chains to make greener and more sustainable choices.

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