Last week saw the first annual DIFFA Picnic by Design in New York City. The event is a summer design soiree that features picnic baskets designed by renowned and up and coming designers all for a good cause (Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS). We loved this entry by New York-based Input Creative Studio.
Full transparency is generally a good policy in life, and apparently in brewing tea as well. This glass teapot from Menu was designed by Copenhagen-based Norm Architects, and incorporates a tea infuser within a completely transparent glass pot. This Scandinavian design visually adds to the experience of making tea.
Del Popolo is a mobile pizzeria that roams the streets of San Francisco in search of hungry masses in the mood for rustic, Neapolitan-inspired pizza. Mastermind Jon Darsky travels in a twenty-foot transatlantic shipping container that’s been re-purposed and modified into a traditional pizza kitchen. A glass door exposes the interior, including a traditional Italian-made wood-fired oven.
American designers Rich Brilliant Willing have launched, along with Karlsson’s Gold Vodka the open edition RBW Bar Kit. Starting with the notion that the best ideas are left unfiltered, Rich Brilliant Willing created a family of objects that pertain to the ritual of drink making.