Simple Good Design

November 21, 2008 – 4:38 pm

Where else can you find an Italian designed and made product for $6.99?

The Driinn™ Mobile Phone Holder was developed by Banal Extra Design in Milan, Italy and the company DutchUS in Breda, Netherlands. The material is a special mix of plastic and rubber, a combination that gives the holder beauty, stength and grip. Offered in the US and Canada by Kikkerland Design sales a pushing one million pieces sold.

Now available practically everywhere we suggest going somewhere you can for sure find more than one Kikkerland Design product such as these great shops: Mxyplyzyk in NYC, Fireworks in Seattle, SF MOMA in San Francisco, Chicago Contemporary Art Center and The Contemporary Art Museum in Houston.

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It’s a French Thing they do in France

November 17, 2008 – 4:23 pm

 a French kid stirring sirrop and soda

TURBO STIRRERS!

French designer, Reno, designed the Turbo Stirrers for a popular French ‘children’s’ cocktail that comes with a less inspired stirring stick. His idea was to offer the more fun spinning-propellor design to the company but they turned it down. Not discouraged, Reno offered the design to Kikkerland Design who also produced Reno’s Battery Flashlight and more recently, Beautiful Earth Magnetic Globes.

When I asked Reno about it being a French item, he agreed “stirring a ’sirop de grenadine’ is very French. All childs [sic] do it. and…YES, ADD A FRENCH FLAG TO THE PACKAGING!”

When I asked Kikkerlander Perrine Giacomazzo, aka “Frenchie,” “No Ice?!” referring to the child’s picture above…she said. “That’s not French!”

The “very French” Turbo Stirrers come in assorted colors or black and white and great for entertaining. Reno’s products are available in New York City at Mxyplyzyk, in Miami at Arango, in Minneapolis at Patina Stores to name a few. For more information about Reno, check out the designer section of the Kikkerland website.

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Design Peace for Veteran’s Day 2009

November 11, 2008 – 8:29 am

The Soldier Candle holder by Chris Collicott was created originally from Chris’s interest in changing the scale of small classic toys into larger functional art objects for adults. In 2006 as war was escalating in other parts of the world it became obvious to add a candle holder to a toy soldier as a symbol of peace.

Chris Collicott’s full biography and products made for Kikkerland Design can be found on the Kikkerland home page. This product and all of Chris Collicott’s designs can be purchased at Mxyplyzyk, a design shop in New York City’s West Village.

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Bates Ace Hardware, Atlanta, GA

November 7, 2008 – 3:21 pm

I know it’s a little early for Christmas posts, but Bates Hardware in Atlanta had their Kikkerland Design Santa LED Key chain tree up before Halloween and we have Santas to sell!

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Wind-Ups on French Home Makeover Show, ‘D&CO’

November 7, 2008 – 2:13 pm


Kikkerland Design’s Critter Wind-ups by Chico Bicalho are available at Printemps Design Boutique in the Centre Pompidou, Paris.

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Election Night Cocktail Decision Maker

November 4, 2008 – 3:54 pm

We asked our trusty stainless steel cocktail calculator, the BA149 Bar Compass, what drink would best go with tonight’s election results…I don’t know what it means but after a good spin it landed on a drink popular in the 1980’s, Sex on the Beach.

Sex on the Beach
- 1 ½ oz. Schnapps, peach
- 1 ½ oz. Vodka
- 2oz. Cranberry Juice
- 2oz. Orange Juice
- 2oz. Pineapple Juice
Combine ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake and strain into a highball glass filled with ice.

This clever mechanical device retails all over the USA and Canada for around $10, including Into the Wind in Boulder, CO; Faces of Earth in Northhampton, MA; OOP in Providence, RI; Character in Soho NYC; Art Effect in Chicago; Rolo in Toronto, ON…to name a few.

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Kikkerland: Home of the Unexpected

November 3, 2008 – 3:39 pm

Written by Jeroen Kuiper when we were coming up with ways to describe Kikkerland Design for the website. We didn’t end up using it, but it’s a sweet story and a great reminder why we do this thing we do called Kikkerland Design.

Kikkerland, which translates as “land of frogs” is a term of endearment for the Netherlands. An improbable, small and water-logged country where winters are grey and rainy, but when Spring and Summer arrive frogs pop up everywhere making noise and jumping off in unexpected directions.

The Kikkerland Design collection works the same way: Out of the grey fog of more-of-the-same, appear all these unique items jumping every which way, announcing that happy times are here. What is consistent about Kikkerland is that you can expect the unexpected.

We provide a home for the original creations of our designers. Our unique designers find a playground at Kikkerland.

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happy halloween from kikkerland design

October 31, 2008 – 8:25 am

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Wind-up Critters on the Loose! by MrModehead

October 30, 2008 – 1:03 pm

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Request your kindly approval for citing your product on our thesis article and publishing on the Journal of Design

October 27, 2008 – 2:02 pm

[email from last week]

Dear Sirs,

We are industrial design scholars who have been proceeding the research for Humor Product Design. Your impressive products on the web site are valuable to our research. It would be very helpful if we can get your kindly approval for citing your product images on our thesis article and publishing on the Journal of Design.

Following is the detail information:

Authors:
Ming-Huang Lin, Yu-Min Fang, and Shih-Hung Cheng
Institute of Applied Arts, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

Thesis Article Title:
“The Intention, Depth and Technique of expression in Humor Product Design”

The published Journal:
Journal of Design; ISSN 1606-8327
(Journal of Design is a Chinese-language, peer-reviewed journal for all areas of design)
WebSite: http://www.ijdesign.org/ojs/index.php/IJDesign/

We deeply appreciate your contribution to the product design. We guarantee that our comments on these products are positive, and your approval will only limit to academic research, not associate with any form of commercial activity. We are looking forward to your feedback. Thanks in advance!

Best Regard,

Ming-Huang Lin, PhD (Professor); Yu-Min Fang, MD; and Shih-Hung Cheng MD
Institute of Applied Arts, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

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