This Pasta Bowl was designed to highlight the imperfect beauty of Parmigiano Reggiano’s cheese

Designed as an entry for this year’s 2022 Parmigiano Reggiano Design Challenge, Tomás Neumann’s pasta bowl sits at the very intersection of food and design. The bowl looks instantly familiar to the keen eye with its texture, color, and unique uneven surface. Rendered in KeyShot, Neumann cleverly managed to make the rim of his pasta bowl look like the cracked mountainlike surface of a Parmigiano Reggiano cheese wheel when it’s cracked open for the first time. Coincidentally enough, the uneven texture also pays tribute to the Apennine Mountains in the Reggio Emilia region, from where we get Parmigiano Reggiano cheese even to this very day!

The Parmigiano Reggiano Design Challenge is now in its second year, looking for products that elevate the human experience, inspired by the culinary works of world-renowned chefs. Launched in partnership with iconic Italian brands Kartell and Alessi, Parmigiano Reggiano Consortium is issuing its annual design challenge to creatives, inviting them to “imagine Masterpieces for the Table inspired by food.”

Designer: Tomás Neumann

Neumann’s entry pays the perfect tribute to the iconic Pasta Cacio e Pepe. Given the dish’s deeply intertwined history with the Parmigiano Reggiano cheese, this made it a perfect pick! Neumann’s pasta bowl, titled “Appennino Interiore” (or Apennine Within) highlights and celebrates the mountainous texture that’s formed when a wheel of Parmigiano Reggiano is broken into. The hard cheese’s crystalline surface ruptures unevenly, creating a miniature Apennine-like surface that’s packed with the cheese’s signature aged flavor. That flavor is accentuated not just through the pasta, but through the dish it’s presented in. The Appennino Interiore is designed with an iconic textured rim, while also boasting of a grain-like pattern that’s a hat-tip to the texture found on the rind of the cheese wheel, left behind by the fabric it’s tied up in. The Appennino Interiore is also designed to be sustainably made. Neumann mentions that the bowl is, in fact, made from a “food-grade biodegradable resin/Linen composite that utilizes discarded linen cheesecloth from the cheese production, adding this to a list of already recycled and upcycled by-products of Parmigiano Reggiano production.”

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Don’t Miss It! The Parmigiano Reggiano Design Challenge sponsored by Kartell and Alessi closes on May 6th!

May 6 is only a week away! Don’t miss the deadline.

The deadline for the Parmigiano Reggiano® Design Challenge is approaching fast, and we’re reminding professional designers and design students to enter their work! Launched in partnership with iconic Italian brands Kartell and Alessi, the Parmigiano Reggiano Consortium has challenged creatives to “imagine Masterpieces for the Table inspired by food.”

Entries Are Free.

Click here to learn more about the Parmigiano Reggiano® Design Challenge. Hurry, entries close May 6th, 2022.

The brief?

To elevate the human experience through products inspired by dishes prepared by world-renowned chefs.

This year’s design brief calls for a close collaboration between design and the culinary arts. Spread across TWO categories: Cooking, and Eating, this year’s Parmigiano Reggiano Design Challenge includes inspiration in the form of dishes prepared by renowned Chef Michel Nischan, the recipient of four James Beard Awards, and by Chef Michele Casadei Massari, the US Brand Ambassador for Parmigiano Reggiano. Designers are required to visualize their creative masterpieces around these inspirational dishes. Participants can consider materials, technologies, functionality, and sustainability as part of their concepts. The entries can be submitted online as sketches, renderings, or photos of prototypes. Learn more here.

A chance to win a trip to Italy, awards, gifts, and visibility!

The Best of Show wins a week-long trip to Italy for two, including VIP tours of a Parmigiano Reggiano artisanal dairy and to the design museums of Alessi and Kartell, and MUCH more! The Design Challenge winners qualify for Gold, Silver and Bronze Awards in two categories, along with amazing gifts from the sponsors. The winners will be featured online and promoted through social media. Additionally, keep in mind that the entries will be reviewed by a stellar group of judges that include some of the most influential names in the design industry.

The judges and sponsors.

The 2022 Parmigiano Reggiano Design Challenge will be presided over by a jury panel of both esteemed designers and culinary professionals. This panel includes Mauro Porcini, the Chief Design Officer for PepsiCo, world-famous designers Karim Rashid and Fabio Novembre, respected restaurant designer Alessia Genova from Tihany Design, and Donald Strum, the head of the Michael Graves Design office. The jury also includes the winner of last year’s Best of Show Award, designer Qing Yan. Additionally, Chef Michele Casadei Massari and Chef Michel Nischan will also join the design industry judges and contribute a culinary perspective to the judging process. If that wasn’t enough, Alessi and Kartell – two of the top Italian design brands in the product and furniture categories are sponsoring the competition. The opportunity for contestants to be seen by influential industry leaders and top design brands is reason enough to enter your work!

Your entry will help fight nutrition insecurity!

Designers can also feel good that by simply entering their work they will help raise much-needed funds for Wholesome Wave, a non-profit organization working to make fruits and vegetables more accessible and affordable for those living with diet-related health risks and conditions, particularly those suffering from the impacts of racial, ethnic and income-based inequities. The sponsors have pledged to make a donation to Wholesome Wave based on the number of entries we receive.

HERE’S AN APPETIZING EXAMPLE!

A pasta bowl inspired by the region and the texture of Parmigiano Reggiano cheese!

Designed by Tomas Neumann and rendered using KeyShot, this pasta bowl sits at the very intersection of food and design. The color and unique uneven surface were inspired by the distinctive mountain-like texture of a wheel of Parmigiano Reggiano cheese when it is cracked for the first time – and is also a reference to the Apennine Mountains which run across Emilia Romagna, the area of origin of Parmigiano Reggiano cheese. Titled “Appennino Interiore” (or Apennine Within) the bowl not only celebrates the crystalline texture of the cheese, it is also made using sustainable materials. Neumann mentions that the bowl is made from a “food-grade biodegradable resin/linen composite that recycles cheesecloth from the cheese production” which is aligned with one of the Design Challenge’s themes – Zero Waste.

Learn more and submit your designs!

The Parmigiano Reggiano Design Challenge site includes all the details about the competition and the requirements for entry. But, hurry! The deadline is May 6…so you only have a few days to enter your work. Oh, and as they say in Italy, “Buona Fortuna!”

Visit the Parmigiano Reggiano Design Challenge site for complete details!

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The Parmigiano Reggiano Design Challenge invites designers to imagine products at the intersection of food and design.

After a stellar debut last year, The Parmigiano Reggiano® Design Challenge makes its grand comeback for a second year!

Launched in partnership with iconic Italian brands Kartell and Alessi, Parmigiano Reggiano Consortium is issuing its annual design challenge to creatives, inviting them to “imagine Masterpieces for the Table inspired by food.”

The brief? To elevate the human experience through products inspired by dishes prepared by world-renowned chefs.

The prizes? A week-long trip to Italy for two, including VIP tours of a Parmigiano Reggiano facility and to the design museums of Alessi and Kartell, and MANY more prizes!

Click Here to Submit Your Designs Now for the Parmigiano Reggiano® Design Challenge. Hurry, entries close May 6th, 2022.

About Parmigiano Reggiano

For almost 1,000 years, Parmigiano Reggiano has been made in the same region of Italy, with the same methods and ingredients that were used at the start. This relentless commitment to tradition is one of the many reasons why the cheese ranks as one of Italy’s most loved brands. To further cement its role as a cultural icon, the brand has organized a design competition that challenges the design community to submit product concepts inspired by ‘authenticity’.

About The Competition

Parmigiano Reggiano Design Challenge includes inspiration in the form of dishes prepared by renowned Chef Michel Nischan and Chef Michele Casadei Massari

This year’s design brief calls for a close collaboration between design and the culinary arts. Spread across TWO categories: Cooking, and Eating, this year’s Parmigiano Reggiano Design Challenge includes inspiration in the form of dishes prepared by renowned Chef Michel Nischan, the recipient of four James Beard Awards, and by Chef Michele Casadei Massari, the US Brand Ambassador for Parmigiano Reggiano and Executive Chef at his popular restaurant, Lucciola, in New York. Designers are required to visualize their creative masterpieces around these inspirational dishes. Participants can consider materials, technologies, functionality, and sustainability as part of their concepts. The entries can be submitted online as sketches, renderings, or photos of prototypes.

About The Jury and The Sponsors

The Jury

The 2022 Parmigiano Reggiano Design Challenge will be presided over by a jury panel of both esteemed designers and culinary professionals. This panel includes Mauro Porcini, the Chief Design Officer for PepsiCo, world-famous designers Karim Rashid and Fabio Novembre, respected restaurant designer Alessia Genova from Tihany Design, and the head of the Michael Graves Design office, Donald Strum. The jury also includes the winner of last year’s Best of Show Award, designer Qing Yan. Additionally, Chef Michele Casadei Massari and Chef Michel Nischan will also join the design industry judges and contribute a culinary perspective to the judging process. If that wasn’t enough, Alessi and Kartel – two of the top Italian design brands in the product and furniture categories are sponsoring the competition. The opportunity for contestants to be seen by influential industry leaders and top design brands is reason enough to enter your work!

Can I Enter? Is It Free?

What About the Awards?

The results of the competition will be announced on the 19th of May at the Awards Party in New York. The winners will receive Gold, Silver, and Bronze Awards, plus gifts from the sponsors and extensive coverage on Yanko Design and other reputed design blogs. The Best of Show Award winner will also receive a week-long trip to Italy for two, including VIP tours of a Parmigiano Reggiano facility and to the design museums of Alessi and Kartell. Additionally, the Best of Show Award winner will be invited to be a part of the jury in next year’s competition.

Parmigiano Reggiano is also partnering with KeyShot, the global innovative real-time 3D rendering tool, to award winners with Keyshot licenses. Professional Designers will get a KeyShot Pro Subscription (Value $1,188). Design Students will get KeyShot EDU (Value $95). Plus, any winning entry made with KeyShot Pro will also get 10GB of KeyShot Cloud storage to share KeyShot scenes online. KeyShot is even offering a FREE download of a full, extended trial of KeyShot Pro just for the participants!

Learn More. Deadline is May 6th, 2022.

Click Here to visit the Parmigiano Reggiano Design Challenge site for complete details about the competition and how to enter it. Don’t forget – you have until May 6th to submit your entries… so it’s best to get the wheels rolling on your concept development! For a look at last year’s winners, just scroll below for a few uniquely authentic and creative designs. Oh, and as they say in Italy, “Buona Fortuna!”

Click Here to Submit Your Designs Now for the Parmigiano Reggiano® Design Challenge. Hurry, entries close May 6th, 2022.

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The Parmigiano Reggiano Design Challenge 2021 just announced its results. Here are the winning designs!

Envisioned in partnership with iconic Italian brands Alessi and Kartell, the Parmigiano Reggiano® Design Challenge invited the design community to help “elevate the human experience through products that celebrate authenticity across the journey of enjoying a meal.”

The open competition, which ended on the 15th of October, saw nearly 500 submissions that were judged by an esteemed panel of judges that comprised Mauro Porcini, Karim Rashid, Ayse Birsel + Bibi Seck, and Pietro Rovatti. The competition’s winners (some of which are showcased below) span across 3 culinary-related categories – Cooking, Eating, and Sitting… and the jury awarded the overall Best Of The Show Winner prize to Qing Yan for designing Cillio – a range of ‘cheese cutlery’ that bordered on kitchen jewelry!

Click Here for The Complete List of Award Winners.

Aside from winning the award, Qing Yan also wins a one-week all-expenses-paid trip to Italy which includes a private tour of a Parmigiano Reggiano cheese-making facility, as well as separate VIP experiences at Alessi and Kartell’s facilities and museums!

Scroll below to see the Best Of The Show Winning Design, as well as some of our favorite designs from the jury-picked winners’ list!





Cillio Cheese Cutlery by Qing Yan (Best Of The Show Winner)

The Cillio celebrates cheese in its unique way by being a functional piece of art designed around the versatile world of cheeses. Elevating the experience of cheese cutting to a ‘ritual’, Qing Yan’s cutlery set takes inspiration from leaves, plants, and organic forms as a reference to the food tools used in earlier times, while bringing it effectively into modern society as ‘kitchen jewelry’ that celebrates all kinds of cheeses from around the world! Watch the video above to see the Cillio in action.

Bifur by Keber Li (Gold – Cooking Category)

Bifur is a nifty little compact scale that comes in the shape of a foldable trivet-style structure and also packs a kitchen timer in it. Designed to be small yet effective, and the kind of tool that becomes indispensable around the kitchen, the Bifur lets you measure the weight of ingredients during food prep, and time your cook too, once it begins cooking. When all’s said and done, the device folds down like a tripod into a tiny baton that you can easily stash in one of your kitchen drawers!

Ember by Adrian Perez (Silver – Cooking Category)

Designed to make baking accessible, Ember is a pretty unique little device that sits on your stovetop, using the stove’s flame to create the ideal conditions for baking. Working sort of like how a dutch oven does, the Ember does a much more advanced job when it comes to even heat distribution… plus it even has a convenient temperature indicator on the front that tells you the reading of the inside of the oven so you can regulate the stove flame accordingly.

Love Birds by Kickie Chudikova (Gold – Eating Category)

European cuisine will have you believe that salt and pepper are the ultimate condiments. Found at virtually every restaurant table (and even some at home), salt and pepper are a culinary match made in heaven, so Kickie Chudikova turned them into love birds! The Love Birds is a salt and pepper shaker set shaped like two birds kissing each other! The shakers have their respective openings at the beaks, which cleverly align together when sitting on the table to effectively ‘shut’ the openings to prevent moisture from getting into the shakers. Coincidentally, the feature also adds a touch of romance and cuteness to the table, making it perfect for date night!

Duet by Ed Ko (Silver – Eating Category)

Duet is a clever microplane grater that also comes with a size-appropriate measuring cup attached to it. Designed in a way that makes grating easy overall, the cup helps prop the grater up so you can hold it easily, while the cup itself comes with markings on the side that let you measure out how much you’ve grated. Pretty useful for anything from hard cheeses to even plants like garlic or ginger.

Cup by Alan Hung (Silver – Sitting Category)

Seating forms an integral part of the dining experience, which is why it was included as a category for the Parmigiano Reggiano Design Challenge too. The Cup chair by Alan Hung won the silver award for its refined aesthetic that took inspiration from food trays. The upper part of the chair features a molded veneer shape that resembles the lipped profile of food trays, while it rests on a rather comfortably shaped molded plastic base, that acts like the tabletop surface on which the food tray rests.

Hybrid by Stephen He (Bronze – Eating Category)

Hybrid is a chair that explores a rather unusual combination of materials that also have a role to play in food and dining. The chair comes with an aluminum base (aluminum can be found in all kinds of utensils) and a cork seat + backrest (cork is often used to make trivets to keep hot utensils on). The cork lends a softness to the chair, while the aluminum structure provides strength while being lightweight. Designer Stephen He also points out that both materials can stand the test of time, and if need be, can easily be recycled too!

Click Here for The Complete List of Award Winners.

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Alessi, Poliform and Kartell, are sponsoring the Parmigiano Reggiano Design Challenge 2021… And the winner gets a chance to visit Italy!

Iconic Italian design brands Alessi, Poliform and Kartell, are sponsoring the Parmigiano Reggiano® Design Challenge and inviting professional designers and design students to submit their product concepts.

The brief? To elevate the human experience through products that celebrate authenticity across the journey of enjoying a meal.
The prize? A trip to Italy for two to enjoy The Ultimate Italian Design Experience!

Click Here to Submit Your Designs Now for the Parmigiano Reggiano® Design Challenge. Hurry, entries close September 15, 2021.

About Parmigiano Reggiano

For almost 1,000 years, Parmigiano Reggiano has been made in the same region of Italy, with the same methods and ingredients that were used at the start. This relentless commitment to tradition is one of the many reasons why the cheese ranks as one of Italy’s most loved brands. To further cement its role as a cultural icon, the brand has organized a design competition that challenges the design community to submit product concepts inspired by ‘authenticity’.

About The Competition

The Design Challenge is accepting entries in three categories: Cooking (graters, knives, chopping boards, utensils, etc.); Eating (plates, bowls, cutlery, napkins, etc.); and Sitting (credenzas, tables, chairs, stools, etc.). The idea is to submit product concepts designed to create a better and more authentic experience at every point across the journey of preparing and enjoying a meal. Designers are invited to consider materials, technologies, functionality and sustainability as part of their concepts. The entries can be submitted online as sketches, renderings, or photos of prototypes.

About The Jury and The Sponsors

The panel of jurors who will ultimately select the winners, is composed of design industry visionaries, including: Laura Anzani (CEO, Poliform USA), Mauro Porcini (CDO, PepsiCo), Karim Rashid (Multidisciplinary Design Icon), Ayse Birsel and Bibi Seck (Founders of Studio Birsel+Seck), and Pietro Rovatti (the Brand Director for Parmigiano Reggiano). If that wasn’t enough, Alessi, Poliform, and Kartel – three of the top Italian design brands in the product and furniture categories are sponsoring the competition. The opportunity for contestants to be seen by influential industry leaders and top design brands is reason enough to enter your work!

Can I Enter? Is It Free?

The competition is open to professionals, students, and even non-designers and is totally FREE! If you’ve got an idea or even the spark of an idea in your mind, this is the right time to start sketching and get a chance to put your work in front of some of the most influential professionals in the business. Just make sure you submit your design before the deadline – on September 15th, 2021!

What about the awards?

The winners will be announced in October 2021. Winners in each category will receive Gold, Silver, and Bronze awards, product gifts, as well as extensive coverage on Yanko Design and other reputed design blogs. The ‘Best of Show’ in the Professional Category will get a one-week, all-expenses-paid trip for two to Italy! The trip will include a private tour of a Parmigiano Reggiano cheese-making facility, as well as separate VIP experiences at Alessi, Poliform, and Kartell’s facilities and museums… and obviously the opportunity to enjoy the best food Italy has to offer, including a sumptuous Italian dinner in one of the region’s best restaurants!

Learn more. The deadline is September 15, 2021.

Click Here to visit the Parmigiano Reggiano Design Challenge site for complete details about the competition and how to enter it. Don’t forget – you have until September 15 to submit your entries… so it’s best to get the wheels rolling on your concept development! For some inspiration, just scroll below for a few uniquely authentic and creative designs. Oh, and as they say in Italy, “Buona Fortuna!”

Enter the Parmigiano Reggiano Design Challenge 2021.

The prize: A trip to Italy for two to enjoy The Ultimate Italian Design Experience!
Click Here to Submit Your Designs Now for the Parmigiano Reggiano® Design Challenge. Hurry, entries close September 15, 2021.