Japan Airlines’ award winning chopsticks

January 8, 2009 Comments Off on Japan Airlines’ award winning chopsticks 210 Views

Japan Airlines (JAL) has been awarded by the Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design, and the European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies a Good Design Award 2008, under the Tabletop category, for the elegant aesthetics and ergonomic design of the chopsticks used in JAL First Class.

Satoshi Nakagawa, Kaori Takehashi, Ikumi Kaneko, and Hironi Kobayashi of Tripod Design Co., Ltd. are the designers. Omedetou gozaimasu to the team at Tripod, and JAL.

Made of cedar wood, the smooth surfaced chopsticks have slightly been narrowed towards their upper ends to make them easier and more comfortable to grip especially for elderly passengers, and infrequent users of chopsticks.

From an environmental perspective, as with all chopsticks used on-board JAL, the award-wining chopsticks have been made with wood obtained in Japan from forest-thinning to supports forest conservation efforts.

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