Experience Enrichment: Vigo Cheese

“Vigo Cheese” is designed for those who have wished to decorate their kitchen with a functional, yet eye-pleasing kitchen tool. It is structured with colour-coated aluminium for overall body and stainless steel for the grating surface. Aluminium is used for its special properties such as corrosive resistant, reflectivity and ductility which would be useful for the product that requires good protection and conservation. It is an excellent object to exhibit on the table or in the kitchen, but at the same time it boasts a precise, state-of the-art functional performance that simply transforms into playful gestural expressiveness one of the most boring and least qualifying culinary operations.

Generally, cheese graters have not been recognised as visually pleasing among kitchen utensils due to ‘rough image of grate surface’ and ‘boring overall shape’. Apart from several particular cheese graters such as Alessi’s cheese graters, there is not much variety in shape and design of today’s cheese graters regardless of the fact that there are currently about 4 different types of cheese graters now.

Personally, until now, cheese graters are mostly designed more on functionality than its look. For example, they are comparably more designed on the basis of ergonomics and comfort. However, we must not forget the core of Don Norman’s emotional design that aesthetically pleasing products appear to be more effective to users. Even the boring grating operation can be a joy to consumers with improving pleasurability in design.

The motive of “Vigo Cheese” is to achieve both functionality and pleasurability. To illustrate, the grater has both organic and geometric lines and shapes as opposed to cheese graters in today’s market. Due to the addition of organic form to a composition dominated by geometric forms, the cheese grater looks balanced well. Ultimately, the design will give ‘energy’ and ‘natural and friendly image’ towards the users. 

In terms of functionality, “Vigo Cheese” has its special slightly curved grate surface which enable ‘rhythmic’ grating operation to consumers. It will undoubtedly make consumers to be pleasureful from its shape to practical operation. Also, the grate surface enables the cheese to come out outside so that the cheese will not get clogged in the grater. Furthermore, since the grip of the grater is placed where the centre of gravity of the cheese grater is at, it will enable users to grip much easier on the table or even in the air preventing tilting or dropping the object. So, Vigo Cheese will be not only a functional but also an eye-pleasing product in your kitchen.