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Better Infusion and Convenient Form, Fool!

Posted: 02 Oct 2008 02:00 AM CDT

Welcome back to the Designer Tea Room Time. On today’s Tea Time we have Tea to-go Sticks by Jeeyun Michaella Chung. These sticks are lovely inventions which fuse the teabag and the stirstick in order to create a more simple experience as well as a better infusion for fantastic taste. You do love taste, don’t you?

“[It's a] one-ff portable teastick that gives more convenient experience to users. Tea bags are attached inside the teastick so there is no need of using sticks separately for stirring nor to throw away the tea bags. You are also able to purchase different flavours individually without any obligation to buy same ones in a big pack. The form of the design was inspired by Japanese CHASEN (Loose leaf tea stirring equipment). It brings a feel of traditional procedure of making tea and it preserve the essence and value of the history.” -Writes the designer of Tea to-go Sticks, Jeeyun Michaella Chung.

Although the fusion of two products does oft look tantalizing, the question of extra waste does come to mind! If everything in this Tea to-go Stick were biodegradable, that would be a most excellent topping for this installment of Designer Tea Room Time.

Together, we can form a more perfect union: one nation under tea!

Designer: Jeeyun Michaella Chung

Jeeyun Michaella Chung

A Square Teddy with Digital Books Inside

Posted: 02 Oct 2008 01:52 AM CDT

From the soft heart of Silje Softing comes Pling Plong, a pillow person with built-in media player and a taste for reading. Aimed at children with an aptitude for imagination and a heart of gold, Pling Plong will stimulate one of the most excellent impulses a young person can have: Adventurelust!

“Pling Plong is a media player for stories and sounds, placed inside a pillow. It is designed for the home environment and is meant to stimulate children´s imagination and interest for books. Its low-tech appearance in form, material and its simple functions makes the pillow seem magical. The fact that you can lay your head on it makes the toy very calming and it is meant for relaxing play alone.” -Writes Silje Softing, designer of Pling Plong.

I support the what S.S. calls the “low-tech appearance in form” very much.

Too many toys being released today seem extremely attractive but fail to endure the test of time. While Super Amazing Skateboard Attack Team is hot now, it’ll hardly be worth recall or desire even a few years down the line. Pling Plong is simple enough that it could remain a fond memory for a person’s entire life.

P.S.: Pling Plong remind you of anyone from your childhood?

Designer: Silje Softing