Elan Vital Tabella Vitrea by Keiji Ishikawa

Elan Vital Tabella Vitrea by Keiji Ishikawa is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 Praemium A' Design Award Argenteum in Instrumenta Culinae Competition Category.

ArgentumInstrumenta Culinae· 2023

Elan Vital Tabella Vitrea

by Keiji Ishikawa

Client: KJ studio

Praemium A' Design Award Argenteum Winner in Instrumenta Culinae Category

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The Design

About Elan Vital Tabella Vitrea

Propter motiva poculi congruentia regulariter disponendi quae fingunt occursus fun, consilium est plenum dynamismi qui punctis vividis excitat, spargit aut esca globos magnae scholae piscium in aqua volitantium. Accedit, inspectis a latere vel summo, summitatibus poculi interioris perlucent vel reflectunt, variis modis mutando, sensum vitae dynamismi praebentes et eos sanatione et felicitate replent. Vitreorum genera sunt multiplex, ut vitreorum vina, causa poculorum, catilli, et specula petrarum.

The Recognition

About the Praemium A' Design Award Argenteum

Elan Vital Tabella Vitrea victor est Praemii A' Design Award Argenteum, honoris eximie amplissimi formis summi generis, pulchris et conspicuis dati. Victores Argenti opera valde splendida et creandi ingenio praedita sunt, quae praestantem peritiam, talentum et acumen auctorum suorum ostendunt. Exspectatur Elan Vital Tabella Vitrea opus mirabile, exemplare, valde professionale et penitus novum fore. Haec forma Argento victa inventum notabile et admiratum est, quod ad fines artis, scientiae, formandi rationis et technologiae promovendos confert. Elan Vital Tabella Vitrea creatio est, quam multi invident, quae cupiditates excitat, sensus bonos affert et admirationem miraculumque movet.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: Because of regularly arranging the motifs of matching cups that imagine a fun encounter, the design is full of dynamism that evokes vivid polka dots, splashes, or bait balls of a large school of fish spinning in the water.
Additionally, when viewed from the side or top, eye-shaped patterns that make up the motif of the inner cup shine through or reflect while changing in various ways, giving people a sense of the dynamism of life and filling them with healing and happiness.
Dimensions & Packaging: The product dimensions are as follows: In the main image, the wine glass is 58mm in diameter and 150mm in height, the sake cup is 60mm in diameter and 60mm in height, and the top view of the sake cup is shown in optional image #1. In optional image #2, the sake glass is 60mm in diameter and 70mm in height. In optional image #3, the rock glass is 77mm in diameter and 92mm in height. Finally, in optional image #4, the plate is 150mm in diameter and 33mm in height.
Tags: kiriko, cutglass, japaneseglassware, glassart
Production Technology: The double-layered glassware is carefully ground and polished by hand using Japanese Kiriko cut glass technology.
Design Challenge: For the grinding wheel, a V-shaped wide-angle wheel was specially ordered. I also practiced and acquired the skill of making precise horizontal cuts in the lower part of the glass where it is difficult to see.
Research: In order to realize the design of Elan Vital, it was necessary to prepare a grinding wheel that could cut the shape of the eyes and the skill to make many horizontal cuts precisely in the lower part of the glass where the cut points were difficult to see.
Inspiration: Through Japanese Kiriko cut glass, the project has enriched human lives.
The idea of the pattern of Elan Vital started from the image of matching cups of liquor with the desire to regain fun reunions with close friends and family in a situation where people's connections tend to be weak due to the corona wreck.
Project Duration: The project started in March 2022 in Tokushima, Japan, and finished in August 2022.
Operation Flow: The eye-shaped pattern that makes up the motif of matching cups is a wide-angle V-cut, so when viewed from the side, the design on the inside changes and shines through, as shown in the main image. When viewed from the top, the pattern on the inside reflects and sparkles in various ways shown in optional image #1.
Additionally, the design is very smooth to the touch and shock-resistant because the cut of the eye-shaped pattern is shallow in depth.
Patents: The design is applying for design registration and will get copyright in registered designs in December 2022 in Japan.
Image Credits: Video Credits:
The video shows how the eye-shaped pattern on the glass changes and shines through transmission or reflection in various ways when the glass rotates.