Too Spoon was one of my earlier designs to come out of my Industrial Design course at university. It was an exercise in moulding & casting, mass-production, and designing to a particular style. The spoon itself is specifically for scooping loose leaf green tea from the tin and transporting it to the cup or pot.
It features a two gram bowl capacity (about 1 tablespoon) to measure out the exact amount needed for one cup of green tea, a flat surface under the 'bowl' for resting on the edge of your tea tin or cupboard shelf, and an upturned lip of the bowl & curved handle to help with scooping tea at bottom of the tin when supplies are running low. Material: Sand cast aluminium, brushed finish. |
The design of this set of spoons was inspired by the work of Henning Koppel - particularly during his time working for Georg Jensen (the instructions given for this project were to draw inspiration from a particular designer or design movement to design a 'vessel' of some sort which would be reproduced five times using a hard-tool moulding/casting process. The resulting objects would then be given away as a koha to five people attending the exhibition).
The challenge I set for myself in this project was to design a very simple, yet adorable object that is equally as functional as it is beautiful. I discovered along the way that out of the main groups of cutlery we commonly use (spoon, knife, fork) that spoons definitely take the award for most challenging to design! I really took into account the different ways in which people hold and use objects, and designed the handle to accommodate many of the styles of holding a spoon that I observed in my research. Special consideration was put into the comfort of the spoon in the hand/fingers, ease of use, consistency in amount of tea obtained, and storage (able to rest of edge of tin). Many materials and designs were trialled before coming to this particular iteration, but other options I feel would work equally as well could be wood or ceramic. |