Iron Homeware Design · 2024
Birdhouse Nest Toothpick Box
by Di Lu
- A' Design Award 2024 Iron Winner in Homeware Design
- Awarded April 15, 2024
- CLIENT: School of Future Design, Beijing Normal University
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 14,496
- Verification code 0FDF7DBB59 · Verify this award
About Birdhouse Nest Toothpick Box
Birdhouse Nest is a toothpick box designed for the table. The box is shaped like a bird's nest, and the toothpicks form the nest around a small bird. Each time a toothpick is taken out, part of the nest is removed, which recalls the loss of trees and of the habitats of birds. The design uses this simple metaphor to encourage care for nature and ecology. Birdhouse Nest is made of environmentally friendly plastic, shaped by plastic processing and assembly, and measures 78 by 78 by 86 millimeters.
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- Every year, because of the use of herb sticks by users, trees are destroyed and many birds living in the jungle receive a great impact.With the use of herb stickers, there are fewer and fewer herb stickers, as if the metaphor of "fewer and fewer woods", and the residence of birds is becoming more and more exposed and unstable. We hope that we can subconsciously arouse people to protect the "seedlings" of environmental awareness in their hearts.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- 78mm*78mm*86mm.
- Production Technology
- Using environmentally friendly plastic processing and assembly that can be explained.
- Project Duration
- This project was completed in Zhuhai in March 2023.
- Operation Flow
- Through the metaphorical design technique, the designer metaphorically turns the herb stick around the bird into the bird's nest, thus constituting a harmonious and warm table landscape.Through this design, we hope to convey to users that we care about nature and ecology, which means we are also caring about ourselves! While focusing on human's own desires, we can move forward hand in hand with the surrounding ecology and protect each other.
- Inspiration
- Whenever the user takes the sticks from the box for use, the process of taking them out also becomes the process of "dismantling" the nest of the birds, thus gaining everyone's warning. Through this design, we hope to convey to users that we care about nature and ecology, which means we are also caring about ourselves! While paying attention to human's own desires, we can move forward hand in hand with the surrounding ecology and protect each other.