One Teakettle Wins the Tea-Off
Design competitions are all the rage these days, with the Internet making it easy to gather and disseminate good ideas from creative thinkers the world over. Recently World Kitchen—a brand you may never have heard of, but you've surely heard of their subsidiaries, CorningWare, Pyrex, and others—ran a competition called the Tea-Off, which invited designers to create an innovative update on the teakettle.
The winning Tea-Off entry came from a Chicago-based boutique studio called Vessel Ideation, which specializes in brand identity and design. Their proposal, the One Teakettle, puts preparation and serving functions into a single heat-proof carafe with blue-on-white designs that reference traditional china but sport a few modern motifs, including old-school pixelated videogame figures. The heat-activated blue designs also serve as the indicator of readiness, appearing only when the kettle's contents are hot enough for serving.
Pretty ingenious. If they made one for coffee I'd use it every day.
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can it be bought online?
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Would also like to know if it can be bought online? Beautiful. Ngaire Hartnett
Unfortunately, it is not in production yet.
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Dwell is a great design source... However, here they have made a mistake. There were three winners in the Tea-off design competition, and no first place all three received the same prize. please visit the site to see all winners. http://www.tea-off.com
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