PoD Alum Oscar de la Hera Gomez Awarded for MoMA Partnered Product
Alum Oscar de la Hera Gomez (class of 2016) has recently won several awards for his Ambi Chopsticks & Holders, designed for MFA Products of Design’s collaboration with the MoMA Design Store. Check out Ambi’s impressive list of accomplishments here:
[Gold] International Design Award, Design for Society / Design for Public Awareness
[Silver] International Design Award, Design for Society / Design for Sustainability
[Iron] A' Design Award, A' Bakeware, Tableware, Drinkware and Cookware Category
[Finalist] IDSA, International Design Excellence Award Finalist in Professional: Home - Home, Kitchen
(featured product in IDSA’s INNOVATION: Yearbook of Design Excellence)
"Disposable chopsticks are wasteful," Oscar explains, "but everlasting ones are hard to keep in pairs." His Ambi set, which pairs durable, wenge chopsticks with a leaf-shaped silicone holder, seeks to solve that problem. As a bonus, the holder—which comes in two shades of green, yellow and red—doubles as a tabletop place setting for the sticks. You can buy your own set at the MoMA Design Store.
Congrats Oscar!