The assignment this year was to make something that makes spending time with your loved ones at home more fun, easier and better.
Make-do
Claudia Bleeker came up with the winning design according to the jury. Her ‘Wood Twine’ backpack contains seventeen parts such as pegs, hooks and rope to connect with home, garden and kitchen supplies for children to play with.
Enough parents know the living room, which is full of unused toys. With this game, children are challenged to think creatively in a playful way.
Geveltuintje
In addition to a jury prize, there is also an audience prize to be won. This year it went to Maaike Min for her ‘Flower tile’.
Do you have a tile garden, but are you still missing some greenery? Then you can use the flower tile to create a small garden step by step, for example to create a mini garden.
Genius
Over the years quite a few designs have come up that are actually very obvious. You just have to get on it. We selected five designs that are actually there for the taking.
The rabbit
The classic. This whistling kettle won the very first HEMA Design Contest because of its handy closure. Which is a bit like a rabbit. Hence the title ‘Le Lapin’, French for rabbit.
HEMand
Yanti Slaats won the audience award for her HEMAnd in 2010. A shopping basket that you can easily attach to your luggage carrier.
Harmonica vase
The assignment was to make a new product from an old product. Lianne Siebring was inspired by a straw and came up with the idea of an adjustable vase.
103% vaas
Another genius vase. Han Koning won the jury prize in 2002 for the 103% vase, for which he made an extra mini vase to give broken flowers a place.
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You’ve probably experienced your spoon falling out of your bowl or your knife sliding off your plate. Jurre Groenenboom came up with a solution in 2004 and made a crockery with a notch where you could neatly place your cutlery.
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