The Solution
Ceramic Bowl Designn (2025)
I love a beautiful bowl. It’s a functional object that serves to hold and celebrate food. Striking aesthetics in bowl design can elevate how a meal is experienced and enjoyed, and take pride of place on the shelf. With my project The Solution I aimed to design bowls that strike the balance between beauty and function.
Having used bowls all my life, this project felt very close to home. As I began pondering how to improve the function of a bowl, my memory was cast back to a harrowing experience from my childhood.
A slowly steeped broth, a soft boiled egg, an assortment of accoutrements and perfectly cooked noodles - a labour of love, the perfect meal. Then in an instant… OUCH!
The bowl too hot and heavy, my perfect meal is shattered on the ground, its unrealised potential scattered on the four winds. I performed a sorrowful cleanup with egg on my face.
As I relived this memory, I asked myself... what if the bowl had handles?
So simple. So perfect. It surprised me no one had ever thought of this before.
As stated by me, “...handles represent a functionality no bowl has ever had” (Me, 2025, p. 29).
With the handles as the primary design feature, I sought to capitalise on the leverage by making the bowl deep and bulbous. Small bowls of the same proportions were designed to hold sides or snacks to support the main meal. The gloss black exterior of the bowls give a heavy presence that ground the set when displayed on a shelf, the neutral colour working with most interior decor styles. The red interiors can be fully enjoyed when the bowls are in use, the bright colour celebrating the food it holds. I present: The Solution.
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