Our tendency to buy groceries and waste them along with shrinking kitchen spaces and a large influx of niche products on the market all make for an anthill of issues revolving around food. This storm of factors makes the realm of food and kitchens perfect fodder for design improvement and therefore a great 1-Hour Design Challenge topic!
We asked the Core77 audience in our latest design challenge, how could you design a multipurpose tool for the kitchen that adds true value to your life? Well we're happy to report that you all had tons of answers and great ones at that, and we've determined a grand prize winner!
Here's our list of winners and honorable mentions in the 1-Hour Versatile Kitchen Tool Design Challenge:
Enter a caption (optional)Nina Zheng's ingenious mix of functions and form factors make it a true winner. After being continuously irritated by all the dishes you have to wash after preparing a home-cooked meal, Zheng had to "address [her] laziness" by making this clever cutting board-mixing bowl-oven tray combo. Judges Kyleigh Wawak and Eleanor Sandford of gravitytank saw this as a clear favorite due to it's thoughtful intent:
"They understood the process and where there was opportunity to improve it. Transformational aspect is something we're seeing a lot of recently. [We would] encourage the designer to explore different materials and prototype functionality to understand how it would actually work."
Enter a caption (optional)Mijare's design challenge entry stood out due to it's innovative thoughtfulness regarding how to tackle a very relevant topic today in the world: food waste. Her "Food Savior" solution utilizes a novel sticker technology that detects when food is about to rot while storing the information on your phone. "By detecting ethylene, stickers sense the ethylene and change color", says Mijares. "This sends a warning to your cellphone letting you know [your food] is about to rot." Judge Joey Zeledon saw this as a very fresh idea:
"Food waste is an extremely relevant issue. The Food Savior is addressing the right problem to solve in the kitchen...[Plus] it's more about the food and less about the gadget. The gadget is just an enabler of the larger experience. Well done."
Thanks again everyone for your submissions! Congratulations to the grand prize winner, who will be taking home the amazing OXO On Illuminating Digital Immersion Blender, designed by Design Challenge judge Joey Zeledon's team at Smart Design!
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The Winner of Our 1-Hour Design Challenge Is....
Who Judges this stuff? Seems like they may need to back to design school....Not very encouraging to get people to participate if you can just make something up that will not work and WIN!
No reason the product wouldn't work. I think you just misinterpreted what they meant by “Push in center.” It's two pieces (the metal cutting board with an X opening and the cone that sits below it), not a board that turns into the mixing bowl.
The concept is titled '3-in-1'. Its not two pieces.
This idea may work if the interior was an offset or almost offset of the exterior shape. I am wondering what happens when the silicone portion gets hot. Will it lose its rigidity and not hold its collapsed form?
Hey all!
I thank you all for your input, and present to you, a very crude model!
So yes, you're right, the sketch does not translate into real life very well, but the sketch was primarily to communicate concept.
With more time I hope to turn this into a fully realized product. For now all I can respond with is this model. My next steps will be to make it full size, and testing with cut acrylic and silicone.
As it's been pointed out by other commenters in this thread the "3-in-1" object wouldn't really work.
Even if the connecting material in the X was flexible, the triangular flaps themselves change dimensions when the board becomes a pyramid.