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Affordable Water Kettle, Bad Economic Times
Almost everyone is feeling the economic pinch as our global economy goes straight to hell but consumers are at the tail end of this trickle down effect. Queue the modest product design company. They want to keep designing aesthetically pleasing products but people aren’t going to buy it. It’s clear utilitarianism will be making a comeback and the Kettle Qp is one of the firsts to embrace that trend.
This kettle eschews all the frivolous accoutrements for pure utilitarian functionality. All it does is boil water so the designers have opted to make that the priority. It’s designed to do its job as efficiently as possible without sacrificing too much style. I say, this is a pretty good looking kettle. Efficient design leads to cheaper production costs which in turn benefits us as consumers.
Designer: Andrey Vostrikov
15 Comments »
Carl says
A kettle who’s priority is to boil water…? whatever next..
maxim kalmykov says
very nice square form for the kettles that usually rounded. but i’m not sure that it would be cheaper on production stage. why should it be cheaper than other kettles? the same plastics, and electrical stuff… just new form-press. but besides of all I would like to have this kettel on in my home
Nikita Medelets says
It`s my idea!
Nikita Medelets says
http://img155.imageshack.us/my.php?image=57466682di4.jpg
The date of creation: 27 december 2006
Dear Andrey Vostrikov, your haven`t any laws to spread my materials.
zippyflounder says
dude, ideas are like arseholes, everybody has them…now products require detail design, marketing, production and MONEY…just to name a few of the 30 or so things that you need to go from idea to product.
Eric says
There are millions of variations for everything, so unless you can show Andrey Vostrikov your patent number, you’re screwed unless you can produce yours first!!
Sorry.
zippyflounder says
I dont see any utility patentable aspects in either, and design patents are even more worthless.
Eric says
LOL sort of my point! They would be arguing over conceptual designs!
pepinthewicked says
I doubt much on Yanko is patented or patentable. This is a community of conceptual designs with little regard for mechanism. We should be sensitive to the origin of good ideas here regardless of patents.
As for this particular concept, it’s nicely executed but hardly original. I mean, it’s a rectangular kettle. Be proud of your version Nikita. This kind of design succeeds in it’s subtleties and it’s execution.
zippyflounder says
love this “This is a community of conceptual designs with little regard for mechanism.”……. reality/functionality/feasablity is soooooo BORING LOL.
pepinthewicked says
Just calling it as I see it, Z. Personally, and professionally, I sweat the details. But here at Yanko, it seems the editors don’t often. Do you think otherwise? Is this the place I should be looking for well designed realistic and feasible objects? Is that what you want from Yanko?
Michman says
While I do think this is a nice design, the point of it being economical is a slight lie. If it was truly economical, it would be out of a single piece of plastic and not be multiple colours. Maxim is right, it’s seems to be just a good looking square kettle, no economical difference is evident or explained.
someone says
square is good for storing it. i like it
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