6 February 2007
Are you a staunch beer drinker but your spouse is a wine person? Does he or she give you a hard time for being “lower class” for drinking beer? Well here’s your chance to annoy your spouse: next time he or she forces you to drink wine, stay true to your beer heritage and drink wine out of one of these specially made pint glasses by Emiko Oki. Ms. Oki has created a series of pint glasses with interesting silhouettes buried within the structure of the glass. The wine glass within the pint glass is my favorite. She has also created a flower vase and a candle holder, but the wine glass’s characteristic shape and the red wine poured into the glass really makes the wine/pint glass pop.
Object: Pint Glass
Designer: Emiko Oki
Year: 2006
URL: www.emikooki.com
Price: $0-50
Lust Factor: Hot
Categories: $0-50 | Glass | Houswares | Lust Factor: Hot
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March 2nd, 2007 at 2:50 pm
[...] Emiko Oki designs some of the most clever products! Recently, I reviewed the pint glass that she created, and this product is of a similar theme. It’s called Trophy Tableware because Emiko takes the coffee pot, bowl, cup, saucer, and so on, and creates a groove in the ceramics with which the user can stack the pieces to make a grand trophy. I find it to be similar to the pint glass in that the implied silhouette of the piece makes the piece. Everything is left simple and unadorned. I must admit I was daydreaming of what this piece might look like with some sort of baroque applied design, but it’s simplicity is probably its strength as well. [...]
November 4th, 2007 at 5:55 am
[...] Hey! hey! What the f##k is going on here? Which one of these glasses is the original and which is a ripoff? About a year ago I reported on a woman who had created a design for a glass so similar that it feels like an impossible coincidence. The pint glass by Emiko Oki is pretty much the same design concept as the Inside Out Collection. I guess I should be asking myself does it even matter that they are the exact same design. My answer is yes it does matter. It’s an insanely cute and clever idea for a product that can be sold at a reasonable price. That means that whomever had come up with the concept could do well on the sales of this thing. I know nothing of protection of ideas, so maybe there is no case for Oki or the Inside Out Collection, but it might be worth investigating. You tell me. Is this a big deal or not? [...]