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Corker Of a Bowl

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‘Corker Of a Bowl’

Every year 14.7 billion wine and champagne corks go to landfill every year, this fact paved the way for what is now known as the ‘Corker of a Bowl’

After a morning of champagne tasting, ONE establishment had enough corks to make one ‘Corker of a bowl’ Using this as my material I propose that breathing a new upcycled life into this ‘rubbish’ would severely drop the number of corks going into land fill, as the bowl is made to be had for a long amount of time, it would also keep the traditional rustic feel as cork are soon becoming a thing of the past.

As the cork gives a very complex pattern I wanted to utilise this in order to create different visual textures and surfaces using different sections of the cork, ultimately there would be a set number of corks per bowl. There is an extremely low level waste that is produced from the bowl, as the slicing of the sections doesn’t remove waste it simply separates sections leading to lack of dust produced.

The ‘Corker of a bowl’ successfully uses the character and many imperfections of each cork together to create a series of seemingly man made textures, this is achieved by a very simple method of slicing the corks to produce very accurate results, if it were to mass produced. The metal caps can also be utilised to create a lustrous surface adding a certain elegance and delicate ambience

The conventional or clichéd upcycling of any cork involves simply arrangement of the corks to make some sort of wall or board, so in making a bowl I steer away from such typical designs, this makes for a very unique and an excellent talking point with friends as the bowl itself is interesting.

The function of the bowl, being a coffee table bowl was chosen carefully after researching how much social activity occurs in the home for the bowl to inconspicuously noticed and talked about

Using Corks in this fashion opens the doors for all kinds of other pieces of furniture and ornaments, they look both elegant and interesting while being functional.

'Corker of a bowl'

Design for life

Why do poeple idolise Philippe starck?

I'm not saying that im the best designer there is (probably an overstatement) but the way that the show presents the opprtunity as being extremeley prestigious to work with starck is quite exagerrated, while to work with starck may be a good experience the students seem to think that some work with him will save thier career and/or provide them with some sort of design enlightenment.

Through doing the industrial design course i have learnt that design is mostly subjective, with poeple having thier own pre-conceived ideas on what is good or bad desgin this would shaped by reasons developed through that person's life, for example if i get attacked by dog and become somewhat traumatised by the experience, i will always have a negative thought associated with dogs. Starck may have also been influenced by such an experience which affects in his personal view of what is good design. The students seem to want to impress him, but in actual fact they should be wanting to impress themselves.if good design is expressing the designer as a person in the form,colour and other characteristics then how can anybody say its bad.

i guess that when poeple design for the mass market a different approach is taken but none the less there will millions of poeple who dislike that design and only a handful that actually purchase it, so there really is no pleasing everyone.
Oersonally if wanted to work with starck it would be beacuse i recognise myself in his designs and find things in common in the way we both worl, not if we were different style desginers.