The Design Crack Guide to Ceramics
Domu (Home) by WhiteFruits
“Home” is one in a series of ingenious platewares by the Czech outfit, Whitefruits, that uses an illusion relief technique to create a 3D form out of a nearly flat surface. In the case of Home, the plate is faceted to look like a home. The technique it simpl, but unusual enough to awe your [...]
Hella Jongerius Four Seasons Teapot for Nymphenburg Porcelain
Miss Jongerius, through master porcelain maker Nymphenburg, has explored the boundaries of the Baroque Rococo with this teapot called Four Seasons. The work has what I consider to be the characteristic marks of Rococo: The piece is stark white, The figures of the teapot are crusty and ornate, and the overall form of the piece [...]
Phonofone II by Science + Sons
OK, I’m now on the Phonofone bandwagon. I think I’ve read no less than 10 posts on the topic which will all tell you the same thing I’m about to tell you: The Phonofone by Science and Sons is a ceramic amplification system for you iPod. This mechanism uses passive horn acoustics to amplify you [...]
Drop Tiles by Johans Golv
I’ve been spending the last couple of days loading design crack with draft stories. I have hundreds of products that I want to tell you about that blew me away. I would say this product is more mildly warm, though. Drop is a system of ceramic tiles by swedish tile maker, Johans Golv, that are [...]
Brasilia Plate and Tray by Bosa Ceramiche
This past weekend was probably the most eventful weekend for design in the history of California. In Monterey, there was a fantastic conference on architecture. In San Francisco, we had the World Design Congress which brings together the top industrial designers in the world to talk shop. What did I do? I went to Napa. [...]
Snow Print Ceramic Tile Concept by Tuukka Tujula and Maija Puoskari
These are two young designers who’s names I cannot pronounce but whose design concepts I immediately get. Both Tuukka Tujula and Maija Puoskari are members of the design collective JuJu Design Party, a Finnish group with a massive amount of talent. I’ll be featuring a number of designs and concept from their collective in the [...]
Darlin: A Magnetic Salt and Pepper Shaker for Lovers by Susanna Vesalainen
Finnish Designer, Susanna Vesalainen, created this ceramic salt and pepper shaker for a competition this year sponsored by DesignBoom. The salt and pepper shaker is comprised of two ceramic halves held together by a magnet that sits in the middle of each half and attracts both sides to each other creating a perfect fit. The [...]
W’Duck: A Restaurant Whose Mind Is In The Toilet
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W’Duck is more than just a noise you make when you slip into a bath tub. It’s also a restaurant in Portugal that has boldly chosen their theme to be a huge bathroom. The restaurant owners did not chince out when they went for this theme, either. You want to eat dinner [...]
Harmony Salt and Pepper Shakers by Corina Garona
Corina is a recently graduated Industrial Designer from Pratt, originally from Buenos Aires, who has shown some promising work. Although Ms. Garona has several promising designs, I fell for her small scaled Harmony salt and pepper shaker which consists of two blobs of shiny silver painted ceramic. The inner blob is the salt shaker. The [...]
Dinner Set by Finding Cheska
Finding Cheska’s work really went over well last time I presented it. They produce a lung shaped ashtray that is artistic, refined, beautiful, and probably most importantly, ironic. However, the majority of Finding Cheska’s work does not hold such great irony. It’s just straight ahead beautiful. Like this dinner set. It consists of dinner plate, [...]
Green Week: The Egg Plant by SMP
What could be greener than plants? Nothing. The Egg Plant by SMP brings a bit of “green” design into your home. It’s a simple concept: place a beautifully crafted ceramic egg into an overly designed recycled box. Place some seeds and dirt in the egg. Now, you’ve got something worth selling as long as you [...]
Cone Speakers by Broberg Ridderstrale
I’m always on the hunt for items that are designed in such a way that you can’t quite tell what they are unless someone tells you. The Cone Speakers by Broberg Ridderstrale are one of these items. I mean, OK, sure there are wires coming out of the back of them, but the speakers lay [...]
Molecule Condiment Plates by Voon Wong and Benson Saw
I have a couple of friends here in San Francisco who are serious foodies. Every couple of weeks my wife and I walk the three blocks to their house to partake in what might be called a food orgy. My friends call this dinner, but to me it’s way more opulent than that. The dinner [...]
Eggshells by Pieke Bergmans
The work of Pieke Bergmans, a young Dutch designer, can best be described as organic. I here that term in the design world all the time, but I still quite don’t know what it means. So, here’s what it means to me: her version of organic is expressed in two different ways. First, Pieke’s works [...]
Lung Ashtray by Finding Cheska
Sometimes I wonder how it’s possible that I’m able to feature two lung ashtrays in such a short period of time. The first lung ashtray I saw was by an extremely adept Italian design firm called industreal with their smoke like a chimney ashtray. Now, here I am with a lung ashtray by Finding Cheska. [...]
Trophy Tableware by Emiko Oki
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 [...]
