Redesign of Kurojyoka أدوات الشرب by Yuki Ijichi is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 جائزة A' Design Award الذهبية in تصميم أدوات الخَبز والمائدة والشرب والطهي Competition Category.
ذهبأدوات المطبخ· 2025
Redesign of Kurojyoka أدوات الشرب
by Yuki Ijichi
Client: MATHERuBA
جائزة A' Design Award الذهبية Winner in أدوات المطبخ Category
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The Design
About Redesign of Kurojyoka أدوات الشرب
هذا تصميم معاد لإبريق كوروجيوكا، وهو إبريق خزفي تقليدي من كاجوشيما لتقديم الشوتشو، ليتناسب مع أنماط الحياة العصرية. تم تشكيل إبريق كوروجيوكا التقليدي بناءً على نظام الموقد الياباني التقليدي، وظل شكله كما هو على الرغم من تغير أنماط الحياة. يمثل هذا المشروع استمرارية لثقافة الشوتشو في كاجوشيما والحرفية التقليدية من خلال تعديل هذا الجانب وتحديث إبريق كوروجيوكا ليلائم أنماط الحياة المعاصرة.
The Recognition
About the جائزة A' Design Award الذهبية
Redesign of Kurojyoka أدوات الشرب هو فائز بجائزة A' Design Award الذهبية، وهي تقدير رفيع المكانة للغاية يُمنح للتصاميم من الدرجة الأولى والرائعة والمتميزة. والفائزون بالذهبية هم إبداعات شديدة الابتكار وعالية الرؤية ومبهرة ببريقها، تعكس نبوغ مصمميها وحكمتهم وبراعتهم. ويُتوقع أن يكون Redesign of Kurojyoka أدوات الشرب اختراعًا عظيم الإشادة ورائدًا وضخم الأثر يقدم قيمة غير مسبوقة. وهذا التصميم الفائز بجائزة A' Design Award الذهبية مشروع مذهل ومحترم يعود بالنفع الكبير ويوسّع حدود الفن والعلم والتصميم والتكنولوجيا. ويخلق Redesign of Kurojyoka أدوات الشرب مشاعر رغبة قوية، ويثير الشغف، ويشجع الإبداع، ويفتننا.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- This is a redesign of the Kurojyoka, a traditional Kagoshima ceramic earthenware teapot for shochu, to fit modern lifestyles. The traditional Kurojyoka was shaped based on heating in a Japanese hearth, and the Satsuma ware craftsmen did not revise the Kurojyoka to fit their changing lifestyles, but this project is characterized by its sublimation into a modern Kurojyoka by revising this aspect of the project. The fact that the shape has been modified for the modern age.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Kurojyoka, Width 120mm x Depth 146mm x Height 160mm
Cup, Width 75mm x Depth 75mm x Height 45mm
Warmer, Width 114mm x Depth 102mm x Height 63mm
Pitcher for Maewari, Width 80mm x Depth 84mm x Height 205mm - Tags
- Product Design, Redesign, Tableware, Sakeware, Kurojoka, Kurojoka6442, Satsuma ware, Earthenware shochu teapot
- Production Technology
- The redesigned Kurojyoka has a mass produced design so that it can be used as a modern earthenware teapot for shochu and as an everyday household item for enjoying shochu. It is made using casting molding, a technique for mass producing ceramics, in which muddy ceramic clay is poured into a plaster mold.
The material is porcelain, which is durable and can be used for commercial purposes.
The glaze uses shirasu from the Shirasu Plateau, a characteristic of Kagoshima's soil, with the aim of it becoming an everyday household item made from local materials. - Design Challenge
- In redesigning the Kurojyoka, we tried to make it a mass production type for easy general use, but there was a difficulty in that Kagoshima does not have mass production technology. Therefore, we asked a Nagasaki potter with mass production technology to manufacture the product, but used Kagoshima materials for the glaze, thereby creating a Kurojyoka with elements of the production area.
- Inspiration
- The project began with a request from MATHERuBA, which operates a cafe and store in Kagoshima, to redesign the Kurojyoka, a traditional Kagoshima porcelain earthenware teapot for shochu, to suit modern lifestyles and create an original product.
We therefore researched the origin of the shape of Kurojyoka for shochu traditionally used in Kagoshima, and found design inspiration in the abacus shape described in literature, which we redesigned into a shape that fits today's lifestyle. - Project Duration
- The project began in Kagoshima in February 2018 and ended in November 2019 and has been sold.
- Image Credits
- Image #1 : Photographer Masahiko Kukiyama
Image #2 : Photographer Masahiko Kukiyama
Image #3 : Photographer Masahiko Kukiyama
Image #4 : Photographer Masahiko Kukiyama
Image #5 : Photographer Masahiko Kukiyama
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