Today is the first instalment of what should be an ongoing series on Icons of Juvenile Product Design with observations and comments about the iconic baby and kids products that are omnipresent in the lives of all parents, so much so that you can almost walk into any family home and get a sense that you are in your own … until the somewhat bemused family living there asks you to leave.
There is already have an extensive shortlist of products for the series, but I am also open to additional suggestions, so send them in.
To kick things off we have the following little gem:
01. Ikea KALAS plastic cutlery, plates, bowls and cups.
(Seving suggestion) Thank you Monika Mulder for designing this globally omnipresent set of plastickery.
These KALAS products are comforting in the sense that you can just as likely encounter them out the backside of middle-America as in the poshest of apartments in inner-city London.
They are fantastic from multiple perspectives of their affordability, durability and conspicuous lack of cross-promotional branding. Indeed because of all of these, one will forgive the fact that it is next to impossible to efficiently stack the bowls in a dishwasher.
These KALAS products are comforting in the sense that you can just as likely encounter them out the backside of middle-America as in the poshest of apartments in inner-city London.
They are fantastic from multiple perspectives of their affordability, durability and conspicuous lack of cross-promotional branding. Indeed because of all of these, one will forgive the fact that it is next to impossible to efficiently stack the bowls in a dishwasher.
And by the way, is it just me, or has anyone else noticed that the end of the spoon looks remarkably like a pair of testicles?
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