Sorapot design contest:
Joey Roth, creator of the excellent Sorapot tea-brewing tube, is hosting a design contest.
Sorapot has been out for half a year now, and many of my customers are designers, artists, engineers, and other creative people. You’ve given me extremely valuable feedback on my design, but I’ve always been curious to see your thoughts expressed the way you usually express them: visually. With the holidays here, a Sorapot Art Contest seemed like the only way to go. To enter: create an image inspired by Sorapot.Your image can be a sketch, a painting, a photo collage, a rendering- anything that can be reproduced as a 1024 x 768 JPEG.
The only rule: your image must visually represent Sorapot in some way- the teapot doesn’t have to be front and center, nor does it have to be photo-realistic, but it must be there.
Email your image to contest@sorapot.com by Sunday, December 14th. I’ll post all images in a gallery here after the judges choose a winner.
International entries are welcome! I will ship the winner’s Sorapot anywhere in the world, and make sure that it arrives before Christmas
I will supplement the winner's reward with $10 cash if that winner's entry could be reasonably given the caption, "Challenged by Klingons, Nigel realized his Sorapot would make a splendid Baat'leth"
Design contest [Sorapot.com]
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Woohoo! I used a Sorapot in person when I was over at my more tasteful and wealthier friend's place. It's one of the coolest objects ive ever seen, and now I actually have a chance to own one! must come up with badass image
So this thing really has some kind of cult following? It looks like it wouldn't keep the tea hot...
I'm sorry, but this is frankly way too pretentious. The pot, the contest, the inclusion on BoingBoing. Everything about it, including this comment.
How do you stir it? Does it keep the heat when you warm it before adding the water? How do you fit a teacosy over it? Do the teabags fit in the hole?
past reviews on this very blog reveal that:
- it does have issues keeping the tea hot, but is small enough that if you're a two cup sort of person, it's not that big an issue
- it IS pretentious and design-y, which is sort of the whole point of this particular bit of kit
- for the reason above, you don't put TEABAGS in it. You only use whole leaf loose teas, probably ones tied in delicate arrangements which unfold like flowers, the better to impress your guests along with your Sub-Zero fridge, unused stainless steel Viking cooktop and oven, and imported custom-cut-by-old-world-craftsman granite countertops.
Mind you, I take this attitude because not so secretly, I covet all of it, heartless materialist that I am.
But as someone who really does love tea, I think the design, while beautiful, is too fiddly to be practical.
What got me about this post was the blatant "please help us come up with our next ad campaign for free" gimmick. Though the klingon comment did mitigate that somewhat. :)
I accidentally the whole thing! :(
Hey, ad-campaign contests have a long tradition behind them. Read the rules, decide whether you're comfortable giving them whatever rights they want you to relinquish even if you don't win, and then decide whether they're offering enough of a prize to make you want to play.
Free ideas, if anyone wants them: To me, it looks like the top of a robot head or a pair of silver headphones, with the spout as antenna.
(I do like the idea of a transparent pot, the better to display long-leaf/flower teas. But I'd like one that's a bit more practical. A french press with the press dismounted may be nearly as elegant...)
I've never seen one product over-hyped so much before.
I love BB, but you guys have jizzed all over this thing so much it's retarded.
While I enjoy the design, there is only room for one teapot in my life.
http://www.amazon.com/Brown-Betty-Cup-Tea-Staffordshire/dp/B0009LM5EE/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=home-garden&qid=1228495495&sr=8-2
I think I'll put my trust the British over industrial designers when it comes to my tea.
Oh! It's beautiful!
I will hide the orchids and brew jasmine-flower tea.
Oh! It's $200!
Now I am sad.
#9 exactly.