rationale

Design Solution

For Project One: Experience Enrichment, I redesigned a kitchen cheese grater. My redesigned grater is a versatile blend between a traditional box style grater and a hand held grater. When grating this product it can be used on either on a flat surface or over food and bowls.

Brief

This product answers project one’s brief through redesigning the everyday hand tool, the kitchen cheese grater. Used both stationary and handheld this product enriches and enhances the users experience through fun, flowing and playful aesthetics as well as a comfortable, soft and ergonomic handle. With a large enough surface area for grating easily this products functionality, ergonomics and aesthetics create a much more pleasurable way of operating a cheese grater.

Benefits

The benefits in this product are present through its functional, ergonomic and aesthetic values. This grater has a versatile shape that allows it to function in several ways while maintaining a relatively large surface area for grating. It has a unique blend between a traditional box style grater and a handheld grater. The somewhat triangular shape allows it to sit on a flat surface and retain its stability while being used. The angled handle also allows the user to use it anywhere in the kitchen whether handheld over food or resting on the edge of a bowl. The ergonomic benefits of this item include its soft comfortable handle that also can be used in a number of ways. The handle can be held front on or side on allowing for both large and small hand types, the comfortable use of this product makes it a much more easy and pleasurable device to use. The curvaceous, flowing and somewhat bulbous shape of the object makes it a fun and exciting product to use.

Materials

This product will be made from a injection moulded plastic frame with soft and rubbery characteristics yet still firm enough to provide stability when grating. The somewhat rubbery material will also act as a stabiliser so the product does not slip and slide around when being used on a tabletop or flat surface. The grating area of the product will be made from stainless steel making it resistant to wear over long periods of time as well as being easy to clean.