Yanko Design - Form Beyond Function

This bowl is literally ‘hip’

Posted: 15 Dec 2017 12:00 PM PST

The Waist Bowl is a simple reimagination of the bowl we use for soups to cereals. If you’ve ever tried carrying a bowl, you know it’s rather large for one hand and often requires two hands to carry. Not to mention, if the contents of the bowl are hot, you need to transfer them to a tray or hold them gingerly by the rim, which is the most unstable part to hold it, but is also the coolest. The bowl’s hemispherical shape also makes it rather difficult to invert when kept upside down. While these problems are small, they’re problems nonetheless and often go ignored, because we’ve learnt to normalize them.

Waist Bowl’s solution is simple, elegant, and makes you question the design of the bowl you’ve been using all your life. It comes with a hip or a waist that allows you to simply grip the bowl with a single hand, while also letting you flip bowls over rather easily. A simple solution for a simple product who’s faults we’ve never questioned! Plus, the waist gives the bowl quite a pleasant character, don’t you think?

The Waist Bowl is a winner of the Red Dot Design Concept Award for the year 2017.

Designer: Jonathan Saphiro Salim

Functional Flowers for Your Kitchen

Posted: 15 Dec 2017 09:28 AM PST

Doubloom is a darling spice canister set that adds a decorative touch to your kitchen! Each canister in the set of 3 sports its own unique stemmed flower supported snuggly in the lid when not in use. Not only for decor, the ornamental stems double as a spoon for your seasonings. They’re also double sided so you can transition between tablespoon and half-tablespoon simply by twisting it around. As cute as they are convenient, they’ll add fresh style to your kitchen interior.

Designer: Wanki Kim

Ever seen a portable desktop!?

Posted: 15 Dec 2017 06:00 AM PST

I’d classify the Lavolta iMac Carrying Bag as an absurdly useful product. It brings (in some capacity) the one element the iMac lacks in comparison to the MacBook. Portability.

The iMac, no matter how sleek, is still a very cumbersome product. It fits well in an office, but to a nomadic freelancer, it’s a best friend and worst enemy. The iMac can produce some stellar work, but you still need to carry your laptop to meetings to show work to clients. The Lavolta iMac Bag changes that. Just slip the bag over the iMac, making sure the stand fits right through the hole on the bag’s side, and you have a completely portable work-machine that can be carried by simply slinging around your shoulder!

The stylish bag gives your powerful workstation the advantage of portability, even allowing you to carry your keyboard and trackpad/mouse in it via the pockets on the side. The bag’s exterior is a nice blend of vogue and professional, while the inside has a microfiber lining to make sure your machine stays safe and scratch-proof throughout your commute.

Perfect for the traveling professional, or any iMac user who wants the power of the iMac but the freedom of a MacBook, the Lavolta is weird to look at no doubt, but its convenience overpowers everything else! Besides, it can even be used as a cover case for the iMac, preventing it from gathering dust when not in use.

Designer: Lavolta

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Never Leave Your Living Room!

Posted: 15 Dec 2017 05:15 AM PST

Having a refrigerator in your living room sounds like a silly idea until you check out Luna. This compact appliance isn’t like a typical mini-fridge. It’s more like a bar cart/wine chiller disguised as a side table!

Because entertainment and food go hand-in-hand, it’s a perfect addition to your TV room so you and your friends have quick access to beverages or snacks without interrupting the football game or movie you’re watching! The top layer, called the “Chill Zone”, can be used to keep drinks cool while they’re out in the open. Inside, users can create custom arrangements to suit their needs. Its simple, minimalistic look blends in seamlessly with other furniture and can even be customized to match wood types or other finishes.

Designer: Jayneel Pradip Shah

The cooker that never wastes rice!

Posted: 14 Dec 2017 06:26 PM PST

Asia’s most consumed grain is also asia’s most wasted. Rice is a staple in most parts of asia, but is never fully consumed. What do you do with a cupful of rice left over from a meal? There’s nothing you CAN do with it… it’s too little to store in the fridge, so it gets thrown away.

Ronald Tan’s idea is that even a small portion of leftover rice is food nevertheless, and should not be treated as waste. The Mirai Rice Cooker is designed to not just flawlessly cook your rice (with multiple settings on its control panel), but it also allows you to transform your leftover rice into crispy rice cakes for a post-meal snack! The base of the cooker comes molded with a pattern that allows you to place your leftover rice into triangular pieces. The Mirai then cooks the rice into flat crispy cakes that can be easily scooped off with the spatula that comes built into the Mirai. The inner surface of the cooker comes with a teflon coating to ensure your rice grains never get stuck to the Mirai, making it not just easier to cook with, but also keep clean!

The Mirai Rice Cooker is a Red Dot Design Concept Award winner for the year 2017.

Designer: Ronald Tan

Everything at your bedside!

Posted: 14 Dec 2017 03:00 PM PST

The bed is a magical place where muscles refuse to work. I’ve actually (and I’m not proud of it) slept in the heat because I was too comfy in bed to get up and walk over to my table where the air conditioner’s remote was kept. In fact when I’m in bed, I suddenly feel the need to have a butler who can pass me the TV remote, or my mobile, or a magazine or newspaper.

The Bedside Caddy by Kikkerland isn’t really a butler, but it achieves the same goal. Allows you to keep everything within arm’s reach so you don’t have to ever disrupt your comfy sleeping position to grab the TV remote or a magazine. It sits right off the side of the bed like a little folder, with compartments for your phone, remote, pen and paper, and even magazines and books. Just reach out to the edge of the bed and everything you need is within arm’s access because no one likes attaining that position of highest comfort in bed, just to have to get out of it because you need to grab something from your study table or bookshelf.

The Bedside Caddy comes in a nice gray felt that’s soft and expandable, allowing you to store a good deal of stuff in it. It tucks right between your mattress and the bed making sure the caddy never slips out with your stuff in it. When not in use, it folds into a nice flat-pack, allowing you to even store it underneath your mattress!

Designer: Kikkerland

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A 200 Year Legacy on your Wrist

Posted: 14 Dec 2017 01:42 PM PST

When you wear a Bailey Cable on your wrist, you’re not just wearing a cable on your wrist. You’re wearing a legacy. Made in Sheffield, the birthplace of Stainless Steel, the Bailey Cables contain the city’s illustrious history and its tryst with Stainless Steel ever since the 1820s century. Civilizations and industries come and go, but almost two hundred years later, Sheffield still makes the finest quality stainless steel at the workshops where the alloy was first discovered and manufactured!

Made at the Portland Works factory (regarded as the true birthplace of stainless steel), the CABLE™ Bracelet are designed to be not just artifacts, but also elements of fashion. Made with an unmatchable quality standard, the CABLE™ Bracelets ship with a “More than Lifetime Guarantee” stating that they will refurbish, maintain, and even replace your CABLE™ Bracelet forever… allowing the bracelet to carry forward Sheffield’s legacy of perfection and craftsmanship even 200 years later.

The CABLE™ Bracelet comes available in a variety of colors, configurations, and themes, allowing you to choose or even build a bracelet that suits your tastes. Each bracelet comes finished to perfection and color coated with a PVD coating that will never tarnish or damage. You can opt for a minimal or even a fully-loaded bracelet that you can wear around your hand, proudly showing off arguably metallurgy’s greatest discovery from its very birthplace… or even gift it to someone you love, because just like the gesture, these bracelets will never die!

Designer: Bailey of Sheffield Design

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Choose the Fusion CABLE™ bracelet for a captivating blend of the unique Petrol colour PVD alongside crisp Polished Black PVD and the classic stainless steel.

Choose the Spectrum CABLE™ bracelet for a stunning combination of the unique Petrol colour PVD accompanied by classic stainless steel.

Choose the Halcyon CABLE™ bracelet for a luxurious mixture of both the Rose Gold and Matte Gold PVD colours complimented by cool Polished Black PVD.

Choose the Spark CABLE™ bracelet for an intriguing mix of Anthracite and Matte Gold PVD with a touch of classic stainless steel.

Supplied with seven marine grade 316L stainless steel beads, in one of each of our stunning PVD colours and finishes plus the original stainless steel – Polished Black EQ, Matte Gold Jacob’s Ladder, Petrol Filter, Anthracite Piet, Rose Gold, Matte Black Balance and a stainless steel Bailey of Sheffield Signature bead.

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