Regional Products – A Journey
Alexa Lethen & Britta Knüppel,
Diploma thesis, 2003

Nomination for the Commerzbank Design Award Cologne; 2005, www.designpreis.de

• Travelling across Germany, each region has its own product that tells a story about the region’s cultural and historical heritage. We selected three regions, looking at their culture and events today and created new un-nostalgic regional products.
  
• Vesper Dish for the Swabian country side
  The product for this region is made for the painstacking Swabian. The Vesper Dish integrates itself into the programme of work. Vesper is a traditional break for a short meal taken at 11.00 a.m. The specific characteristics of this dish is that it times this break to the second by an embedded stopwatch.
  If you wind it up with the appropriate cup your Vesper starts and is stopped by a shrill ring after 15 minutes.
  
  Made from porcelain.
  
• Vesper Dish for the Swabian country side
  The product for this region is made for the painstacking Swabian. The Vesper Dish integrates itself into the programme of work. Vesper is a traditional break for a short meal taken at 11.00 a.m. The specific characteristics of this dish is that it times this break to the second by an embedded stopwatch.
  If you wind it up with the appropriate cup your Vesper starts and is stopped by a shrill ring after 15 minutes.
  
  Made from porcelain.
  
• Vesper Dish for the Swabian country side
  The product for this region is made for the painstacking Swabian. The Vesper Dish integrates itself into the programme of work. Vesper is a traditional break for a short meal taken at 11.00 a.m. The specific characteristics of this dish is that it times this break to the second by an embedded stopwatch.
  If you wind it up with the appropriate cup your Vesper starts and is stopped by a shrill ring after 15 minutes.
  
  Made from porcelain.
  
• Pott Jewellery for the Ruhr district
  The Ruhr district is a region that was dominated by the mining industry and owes its particular character to coal. The infrastructure left by the mining industry, where many worked and died, has been converted today into cultural sites.
  The coal jewellery leaves visible marks on the body of the person who wears it, in just the same way as coal has left its mark on the region’s countryside.
  
  Made from 100% coal.
  
• Pott Jewellery for the Ruhr district
  The Ruhr district is a region that was dominated by the mining industry and owes its particular character to coal. The infrastructure left by the mining industry, where many worked and died, has been converted today into cultural sites.
  The coal jewellery leaves visible marks on the body of the person who wears it, in just the same way as coal has left its mark on the region’s countryside.
  
  Made from 100% coal.
  
• Beach Picnic Set for the German shore
  The windy beaches of the Northern German shores make picnics very difficult. This portable picnic set for four people, makes life considerably more comfortable. Plates, glasses and bowls are attached to rods with rubber adapters, to avoid sand being blown onto the meal. In case of the frequent, sudden showers, the set contains one rainproof cape with four hoods to shelter picnicers.
  
• Beach Picnic Set for the German shore
  The windy beaches of the Northern German shores make picnics very difficult. This portable picnic set for four people, makes life considerably more comfortable. Plates, glasses and bowls are attached to rods with rubber adapters, to avoid sand being blown onto the meal. In case of the frequent, sudden showers, the set contains one rainproof cape with four hoods to shelter picnicers.
  
• Beach Picnic Set for the German shore
  The windy beaches of the Northern German shores make picnics very difficult. This portable picnic set for four people, makes life considerably more comfortable. Plates, glasses and bowls are attached to rods with rubber adapters, to avoid sand being blown onto the meal. In case of the frequent, sudden showers, the set contains one rainproof cape with four hoods to shelter picnicers.
  
• Beach Picnic Set for the German shore
  The windy beaches of the Northern German shores make picnics very difficult. This portable picnic set for four people, makes life considerably more comfortable. Plates, glasses and bowls are attached to rods with rubber adapters, to avoid sand being blown onto the meal. In case of the frequent, sudden showers, the set contains one rainproof cape with four hoods to shelter picnicers.