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TCCF Taiwan HYPE: Re-presso Spoon

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Re-presso Spoon | TCCF: Taiwan HYPE


Presenting authentic Taiwan through a creative mixture of folklore, technology, and digital art, 
Taiwan HYPE is a futuristic temple — people gather at temples during important festivals, praying to deities with great sincerity and offering delicacies prepared with care. Focusing on the people’s sincerity and hospitality, the pavilion embodies Taiwanese temple culture and language through its modern design. 
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Taiwan HYPE: The Futuristic Temple 

The traditional five types of sacrifices — rooster, pig, fish, duck, and squid — are made into symbols representing the crossover between culture and technology. Selected Taiwanese phonetic symbols — ㄊ, ㄨ, ㄏ, ㄆ — are adopted as the primary elements of design. Visually, part of the animals are integrated with phonetic symbols to form “a new breed.”

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With aesthetics as its basis and eco-friendliness as its core, a cutlery item is reimagined with Taiwanese food culture in mind, taking on a new form aptly named Re-presso Spoon. So bring home a "trash" made new, and rethink how we look at waste and its possibilities.
cycle design food culture nightmarket recycled plastic snack spoon tableware taiwan
cycle design food culture nightmarket recycled plastic snack spoon tableware taiwan
cycle design food culture nightmarket recycled plastic snack spoon tableware taiwan
Re-presso Spoon, a co-creation by eco-friendly-tech company MINIWIZ, 
uses the flat-bottomed spoon, a cutlery of choice in Taiwanese culture. 

With the help of TRASHPRESSO, MINIWIZ’s mobile recycling plant, the artwork adds value to single-use plastic by playfully branding it with different usage and in different sizes - the basic Jiáo (dumpling), the bowl-shaped Wán (ball) and the plate-shaped Bāo (bun). 
This newly shaped spoon looks at how culture can be combined with everyday objects and how the future can be 
shaped through value-added usage.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
cycle design food culture nightmarket recycled plastic snack spoon tableware taiwan
cycle design food culture nightmarket recycled plastic snack spoon tableware taiwan
cycle design food culture nightmarket recycled plastic snack spoon tableware taiwan
cycle design food culture nightmarket recycled plastic snack spoon tableware taiwan
cycle design food culture nightmarket recycled plastic snack spoon tableware taiwan
cycle design food culture nightmarket recycled plastic snack spoon tableware taiwan
cycle design food culture nightmarket recycled plastic snack spoon tableware taiwan



TAIWAN CREATIVE CONTENT FEST: Taiwan HYPE

Date｜11/17 - 11/21（10:00 - 21:00）, 2020
Place｜Vie Show Cinemas Taipei Xinyi
cycle design food culture nightmarket recycled plastic snack spoon tableware taiwan

Photo Credit: JL Design

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Client: JL DESIGN, TAICCA
Project Design: PiliWu-Design
Production: MINIWIZ
Designer: Wan-ru Lee｜Ming-Wei Xiao
Special Thanks:  Yu-Cheng Studio｜ORDYNARI PEOPLE｜Howie Lee




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TCCF Taiwan HYPE: Re-presso Spoon
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