Dining in 2015

Ecotrends in design never fade. Here is the list of winners and finalists of the international design contest ‘dining in 2015′ organized by designboom and macef in 2008. 4843 creative individuals and institutions from 98 countries have participated, but only few of them were shortlisted as the most innovative ones.

The first three works are the winning ones, and the rest is taken from the list of runner-ups. For more designs visit www.designboom.com. The description is provided by designers.

Concept: leaf-shaped spoon

By: Shuhei Senda from Japan

This spoon makes us softly feel that we live to be given the blessings of nature. It is designed with the wish that we think a great regards of dining more and more as human’s essential workings in the future.

Concept: din-ink

By: Andrea Cingoli + Paolo Emilio Belisarius + Christian Cellini + Francesca Fontana from Italy

Turn your favourite office tool from your desk in a common cutlery…this is din-ink. A set of pen caps, including a fork-cap, a knife-cap and a spoon-cap, that replaces the normal pen cap during lunch time! All caps are made by annually renewable resources, like natural starch and fibres, to be 100% biodegradable and atoxic, warranting the best alimentary use. Dispensing each set in a compostable packaging the whole set is designed to respect the environment. Now give your office ballpoint pen a good excuse to be gnawed by your teeth: use them for din-ink.

Concept: fragile

By: studio Kahn + Boaz Kahn from Israel

When was the last time you emphatically broke something? The ceramic salt and pepper shaker offers you the opportunity to do it! The product comes in one piece and by breaking it, you make it useful. Breaking is an experience of impulsive outburst, but this time is an act that builds rather than destroys. In a world of products whose shape is completely dictated by the designer, we enable the user to complete the design himself. The event of the breaking leaves its mark on the shaker and gives it its final, unique, one-of-a-kind appearance.

Design: eco-cook

By: Kechenyi Camille from France

In 2015, environment problems from energy will become more and more serious. I believe that everyone’s life will be concerned. Thus kitchenware will be modernize to reduce energy consumption. My eco-cook is an object that helps to save water, energy and time. Every day, everyone, has to cook pasta, rice or various vegetable. Therefore different pots are needed. In a unique pot, the eco-cook enables to divide 2 or 3 space and to boil different food at the same time. Thereby, water and gas or electricity is saved. Moreover when food is taken out the eco-cook, it will automatically drain out, allowing to win precious time. In 2015 I also believe that most people will always be in a hurry. The eco-cook design permits to help 2015 people that pay close attention to energy and time.

Concept: drawing-pan

By: Fabrizio Garramone from Italy

The concept of this project is very simple: designed by cooking! Observing how nature design and create perfectly his fruits, i have thought that should be possible to add a form (on the same fruits) during cooking. It is important because it could be a pretext to eat and cook naturally in a period in which our frenetic life-style put us away from cook-traditions. DRAWING-PAN is a thin layer pan made of stainless steel on which can be press every kind of graphics, geometric or organic. many are the features, because all the elements are disassemble and simply washable and replaceable. The pan can be used individually to prepare cakes.

Concept: snap and dine

By: Demelza Hill from the UK

Snap and Dine is a three course dinning setting that integrates disposable cutlery with traditional silverware. The portable setting expands the possibilities of eating outdoors in style whilst reinforcing the correct use of cutlery, which has been lost over time. This is achieved through the decorative qualities and formal setting which both are a visual reference to fine dinning. This product will be injection moulded and will be able to snap in and out and will be machine washable.

Concept: hot plate

By: Ami Drach + Dov Ganchrow + + photography: Moti Fishbine from Israel

At a time when almost every object around us seems to suddenly get Smart; From MP3 jackets to GPS cars to Smart bombs. It seems appropriate to take that age-old baked piece of mud that we like our ancestors eat off of – the ceramic plate, and fuse it with contemporary technological know-how. We use the conductive properties of silk-screened gold or Amorphic Metal films in the same manner printed circuit boards or car windshield defrosters work. Hook up the plate to an electrical source and the current will run through the “decoration” keeping food stuff warm. Ornate graphic patterns are given “function”- in the most modernist sense of the word. Here is a chance to take a fresh look in our bowls and discover they contain twice as much! Dinner on traditional table wear with a Smart dressing, Bon Apatite’.

Concept: integral dinner

By: Legrand Marion from France

Eat differently in 2015. Suppress the contraints link to the dinner. No more cleaning. No more stocking. No more problem link to the recycling. And more pleasure! I propose another way to approach the dinner, in a more carnal way, without forks and spoons, but with some new means. My projects is a kind of whole dinner kit in one object, eatable object from which we detach pieces to help to eat the meal. The container reduces and disappears at the same time as the contents (= the food). This new object is realized with floor, water, alimentary colouring, and diferent flavours for different tastes (recipe inspired from azyme paper). We can so play with colours and tastes, and the object becomes a part of the meal.

Concept: eco way-ecological take away packages

By: Tal Marco from Israel

Using banana leaves as a new material to create new ecological packages for take away. Banana leaves are a by-product which exists in many regions around the world. This material has a wax-like surface which is ideal for wet and greasy foods. It is flexible and therefore can be adapted to many types of packaging. The leaves last long after they are cut off the trees. The packages are cut to form using die cutting technology. No glue is used. The unique qualities of this material allow packages to be opened simply by tearing the banana leaf along its natural perforation.