Unusual and Creative Tableware Designs

Unusual and Creative Tableware Designs

Collection of unusual and creative tableware designs from around the world.

On/Off Mug

At first glance it’s simply a standard black mug with big white letters that say “OFF”. Nothing fancy, but once you add the hot beverage of your choice, the mug changes color to white and in big black letters it states: “ON”.

On Off Mug

Stacked Cups

Stacked is comfortable in the hand and amusing to the eye. No matter how you grab it, it’s guaranteed to enliven your coffee break and perk up your pantry.

Stacked Cups

Rollercoaster Fruit Tray

Creative fruit tray by Janne Kyttanen can hold up to 9 oranges.

Rollercoaster Fruit Tray

Outdoor Cutlery

Find the branch that is right for you, attach it to the desired tool and voila you have a fork, knife or spoon. Replace the branch whenever you feel like.

Outdoor Cutlery

Outdoor Cutlery 2

Tea Bag Coffin

With the “Tea bag Coffin”, the drinker can tidily bury the bag under the cup and out of the way. RIP.

Tea Bag Coffin

Eva Solo Smiley Bowl

The Smiley bowl always smiles at its surroundings, and it is always ready to lend a helping hand to hold nuts, sweets or all the stuff that you carry around in your pockets.

Eva Solo Smiley Bowl

Ceramic Noodle Cup

Why pollute the earth by throwing away Styrofoam cups when you can have your very own reusable ceramic Noodle Cup?

Ceramic Noodle Cup

SmileCups

Creative SmileCups by Studio Psyho.

SmileCups

Drink Selector Mug

Tired of telling people how you like your tea or coffee? Twist rings to reveal your choice of drink and your milk and sugar preferences.

Drink Selector Mug

Fruit Loop Centerpiece

This innovative fruit bowl lets you bring the Ring Cycle to your own table.

Fruit Loop Centerpiece

Terrorist Teapot

Scary Tea Pot is a set including the tea pot and the balaclava tea cosy.

Terrorist Teapot

Terrorist Teapot 2

Small Apple Dish

By having an appropriate place in the dish, your fruit waste becomes an esthetic part of your meal.

Small Apple Dish

Small Apple Dish 2

My Cuppa Mug

My Cuppa helps you mix your drink to the perfect consistency, based on the color-coded guide inside. Options include everything from a straightforward “milky” to an extra-strong “builder’s brew”.

My Cuppa Mug

Edge Plate

Creative “half on half off” plate.

Edge Plate

Log Bowls

Eco-Friendly Log Bowls by Doha Chebib.

Log Bowls

Wrenchware Tableware

Wrench-handled knife, crescent-wrench spoon and ratchet fork. [buy]

Wrenchware Tableware

Also check out: Creative and Unusual Cutlery Designs

  1. David

    haha nice, the cuppa mug! wonderful, haha i like it

  2. Justine

    I have ceramic noodle cup and love it!

  3. Chachu Clothing

    Haha, love it!

  4. John

    some people have too much time on their hands

  5. kif

    This is some nice stuffs yes, KIF!

  6. ChiHaw

    haha, the cuppa mug is my favourite.

  7. click

    l need this tea couple for a gift to my girl.

  8. steve

    How is cutting down trees to make bowls Eco-friendly?

  9. Daniel

    WOW!! Simply Superb

  10. anggoro

    What a twist! I like Drink Selector Mug

  11. watter

    Edge plate? Seriously? That’s dumb, unless you enjoy being covered in food.

    The noodle cup is pretty cool though.

  12. Takashi Kusuma

    wow now that’s something to be a good use for

  13. oya

    steve has a point. i guess i agree.

  14. thecoffemug

    All I want for christmas is the on/off coffee mug… I love it.

    catchalater…

  15. Anon

    “Designed by Doha Chebib, these eco-friendly Log Bowls come in a large variety of colors and are handmade using only unwanted waste wood from storms, development, and re-landscaping.”

    – That’s how.

    Nice stuff.

  16. Doug Rosbury

    They are all too clever. Mere cleverness is not good enough. They are no more than an excuse to market something to make a buck.——Doug

  17. Goldie

    I love this post! These are wonderful designs.

  18. Jeff

    There are some stuff here that I would buy in a second.

  19. david

    outragious ‘wrenchware’. Kudos!

  20. Jad

    this is very nice collection thanks

  21. Sexy Cheese

    Great list. Thanks!

  22. Bill in Detroit

    Sorry to spoil the party but you got the tool name wrong for every one of the Wrenchware. That’s a box wrench for the fork, pliers for the knife and an open-end (or spanner, depending on which side of the pond you are on) for the spoon.

    It would be even nicer if the knife terminated in a screwdriver of some sort and all three were actually functional (fitting a standard size nut or screw).

    An otherwise excellent post. I’m going to try following the bowl-in-a-log link because it looks like an interesting lathe project.

  23. Viculio

    I’m impressed by human imagination. Nice and funny ideas.

  24. dandoona

    gr8 pics sooooooooo NICE i LOVED them =)

    thanx..

  25. awsum!

    i love dem! awsum!

  26. hehe! love it!

    very clever… Humans are very creative!

  27. Curious

    The half eaten apple is ridiculous.
    Otherwise interesting.
    Keen to know how the OFF ON works

  28. sylv

    ooooooh so cool! very creative!

  29. harleyblues

    Hey these are some brilliant innovative ideas here very cool!

  30. cowmaster22

    hahhahahahahahahaha ha cool

  31. mii

    sum of these are really cool! i alredi own sum and deffo recomend apple dish (even though they dont look like they wud work,, they really do!) trust me, i thought the same fing wen sumbody bought me one but they really are good!!

    Mii x

  32. mesir

    Love how ski masks are no longer associated with bank robbers, and how are log bowls eco friendly?

  33. Spicy Bookmark

    nice & very funny pics :)

  34. krembo99.com

    really great stuff..

  35. ilginç resimler

    oo, very amazing and creatifly designs : )

  36. haifafans

    i have one like On/Off Mug :D
    i made it on malek’s Bookstop in lebanon :D

  37. Tracy

    really good ideas! like the tools…

  38. Axel

    Love’ them…nice page.

  39. bruno

    most of this stuff is neither practical, nor eco-friendly, nor useful. While some of it is nice “conceptual” stuff, things like the aplle core bowl are just ridiculous.
    We need less stuff in the world!

  40. Stranger

    i like the on/off mug and now i OWN ONE!!!!!!

  41. ChEeSe

    the drink selecter is pretty cool and the terrorist one looks more ninja to me!!

  42. Marc

    Sorry to spoil the party but you got the tool name wrong for every one of the Wrenchware. That’s a box wrench for the fork, pliers for the knife and an open-end (or spanner, depending on which side of the pond you are on) for the spoon.

    It would be even nicer if the knife terminated in a screwdriver of some sort and all three were actually functional (fitting a standard size nut or screw).

  43. Roger Faus

    sum of these are really cool! i alredi own sum and deffo recomend apple dish (even though they dont look like they wud work,, they really do!) trust me, i thought the same fing wen sumbody bought me one but they really are good!!

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