For Kim

"This bowl is meant to enhance the user’s dining experience and awareness through a subtle play on balance. Filling the bowl with food causes the bowl to balance in a standard, horizontal position. As the food is eaten, the bowl slowly rocks back towards the user, making the remaining food more accessible and marking the end of the meal."

mobile design

I thought this was a nice way to put shop/restaurant+vehicle in one with an eating area. More like a bar though and those stools need to go. The windows provide for a nice view of food preparation.

Ok so I swear this will be the last post of the night.

Food Necklace by His-Ju Chang assisted by Yu-Lei Chu

From Yanko Design

Food Balls Around the Neck

You remember the ubiquitous Candy Necklace, right? Many of you probably still indulge in edible jewelry now and again. While the Candy Necklace might not have been designer His-Ju Chang’s primary inspiration, she has certainly refined the art. Using the surplus of the world, here’s the solution to global hunger: the Food Necklace!

Chang proposes that the food surplus in “over-consumption” areas of the world be taken, dried out, and used for nutrition balls. These nutrition balls consist of “whole vegetable or fruit including peel and fresh or root and leaves,” and can be prepared for consumption placing them in water, milk, or soup.

In addition, this product can be made into an urban-landscape product (she compares them to tic-tacs) by making them tiny for small meals and snacks.

ALSO- be sure to check the Design for Poverty Contest Winners. There are some brilliant designs there.

Lastly- Food boxes by Li Jianye

Also from Yanko Design

This is so neat! What if we were to design plates or boxes like these that show the general proportions for what to eat?

Not really mobile market related....

This is more food related, something just to think about!

Yanko Design- Nadeem Haldary

This fork has different amounts of caloric consumption per country as to remind you of those who are less fortunate when you are eating that fillet Mignon.

Health Conscious Tracking Phone by Kristina Lee

Another inspirational object off of Yanko Design:

This reminded me of something that Professor Brandt mentioned about the combination of a cellular phone and the mobile market. Perhaps we could adapt ways of using this technology to track or communicate about the whereabouts and events concerning the mobile market.

Diagnostic Kitchen by Phillips Design

From Yanko Design
Diagnostic Kitchen

This is a kitchen tool that has a wand that you scan to look at the contents of food so that eaters are more aware of what is really on their plate and how it will affect their bodies. I thought this was an interesting take on nutrition education.

Thailand Train Market

thought this was a pretty interesting way of looking at the mobile market since the train was such a huge part of the market in syracuse back in the day