Posts Tagged ‘MoMa’

  • Tue, Jun 29 2010

    It’s hard not to be creatively invigorated in an ever-evolving world. And perhaps no New York museum exhibit encompasses that more than MoMa’s upcoming Counter Space: Design and the Modern Kitchen, which opens in September.

    The exhibit will showcase a complete 1920′s “Frankfurt Kitchen,” among other design goodies, and promises to reveal more than just futuristic aesthetic appeal. MoMa notes:

    “Kitchens have continued to articulate, and at times actively challenge, our relationship to the food we eat, popular attitudes toward the domestic role of women, family life, consumerism, and even political ideology…”

    L magazine then collected five additional items with the same transforming qualities. Trust me, you ain’t never seen tea and coffee sets like this one.

    Like with all design innovation (or any other kind for that matter), there’s always something new to discover and explore. Our designers let themselves be influenced by the past while creating for the future. There’s no such thing as inspiration overload here at Quirky!

  • Wed, May 19 2010

    In addition to late weekend nights tending to Bertha, one of my favorite weekend activities is walking around the MoMa design store in Soho. It is, after all, only a six minute walk from the office.

    As you probably know, I am not a designer or engineer, operations is more my jam, but throughout my experience working at Quirky and being surrounded by so many awesome products that we make ourselves, it is quite inspiring to see what the MoMa sells.

    Here are some of my favorite MoMa products that I use daily:

    Muji Calculator – it’s beautiful and functional!

    Daily Cereal Bowl – high rim keeps me from spilling milk on my computer! (yes, that happened before I started eating out of this bowl)

    Nesting Bowls – Awesome cooking bowls and cups. They store compactly inside one another!

    I won’t bore you by showing you my entire MoMa collection but I will mention that every time I walk around the store, aside from being tempted to buy more, I wonder when (not if) one of Quirky’s products will hit the shelves at MoMa.

    We KNOW we will get there.

    So Quirks, do you think our MoMa-worthy product has already been made, or is it yet to come?