This Spaghetti-inspired spoon brilliantly re-imagines the pasta shape with functionality!

The various shapes of pasta we see today were all influenced directly by their region and the ingredients used in the pastas. Some pasta shapes were made hollow to hold sauce within them, some were created in the noodle format so as to be coated in the sauces. The shape of pasta is perhaps one of the best examples of form following function, and the guys at Monkey Business pushed the boundaries to give the pasta form some more functions! Meet the Spaghetti Spoon, created as a part of Monkey Business’s Pasta Series that envisions popular pasta shapes as kitchen tools. The Spaghetti Spoon, as its name suggests, is a spoon that’s designed to resemble strands of al-dente spaghetti. Created from heat-resistant plastic, the spoon’s uniquely appetizing shape is perfect for scooping and transferring any sort of noodle-based pasta between saucepans or serving plates. Just don’t try biting into it!

Designer: Avichai Tadmor (Monkey Business)

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Meet the Conchiglie – a quirky little lemon squeezer that’s inspired by pasta!

Imagine you’re Jon Favreau. You have Scarlett Johansson sitting on your couch looking decidedly seductive, admiring you as you prepare a hearty bowl of Spaghetti Aglio e Olio as a midnight snack for the both of you. You’ve strained the noodles, prepared the garlic oil, mixed it all together, and sprinkled a bit of parsley all over. All the dish needs is a dash of lemon, and you bust out the Conchiglie lemon squeezer to finish your pasta with a bit of tang… it’s all just perfect!

The Conchiglie is a neat, conch-shaped device inspired directly by the conchiglie pasta. Colored in yellow and molded out of food-grade silicone, the Conchiglie comes with a hollow inner that’s perfectly sized for a lemon-half. Slip the lemon in and squeeze it from the outside and the Conchiglie does a wonderful job of juicing the lemon without getting your hands all sticky and messy. The silicone construction gives you the friction and grip you need, and a tiny strainer at the end of the conch helps catch the lemon seeds as you juice away. And when you’re done impressing miss googly-eyed Scarlett Johansson, just chuck the Conchiglie in a dishwasher and it’ll clean right up! Although you should probably discard those lemon seeds before you do…

Designer: Avichai Tadmor (Monkey Business)

When life gives you lemons…

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If you ever want to look up to someone for their confidence at work, you look up to Juice Bruce. He’s got that easy stare and the expressionless mouth that makes it look like he knows exactly what he’s doing, and that he’s a pro at it!

Juice Bruce gamifies the process of lemon juice extraction. Bruce is a wooden hand-operated lemon juicer with a face that’s minimal, but has enough design expression for any layperson to get the reference, and let out a smile! Brilliant design right there!

Designer: Studio Yaacov Kaufman For Monkey Business

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I give this product a Thumbs up!

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I’m not afraid of admitting that I haven’t been wowed by simple-product design in a while. I opened my mailbox to find that I had to feature the Nail-it on Yanko and I felt my jaw drop a bit. The Nail-it plays on visual metaphors beautifully, creating a product that is just ideal.

Built around an absolutely brilliant idea, the Nail-it is a plastic Pinocchio shaped tool that saves your thumbs from being bruised by gripping onto nails while you hammer them in. The visual pun here is that when you grip the nail with this clever little product, the nail becomes Pinocchio’s nose (that you in turn, hammer in). The Nail-it also helps you hammer the nail perpendicularly, therefore preventing it from getting bent or broken. A perfect product for children with a hankering for tinkering, and for adults who are just kids at heart!

Designer: Avihai Shurin for Monkey Business

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EGGstra-terrestrial

So, it’s clear. The egg came before the chicken. And it came in style, perched on its very own flying UFO! Presenting the Egg 51, a perfect cup for eggs that are absolutely “out of this world”!

Designer: Itamar Burstein for Monkey Business

Author: Sarang Sheth

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