Metal disposable chopsticks MITATE / Ishii Seiko

Metal disposable chopsticks that can be repeatedly split

This is a product that is full of craftsmanship that achieves the same "snap" feeling as splitting wooden disposable chopsticks without the use of magnets or adhesives. The product is full of craftsmanship that has achieved the feeling of "crackling" when splitting wooden disposable chopsticks.

Sumida Modern flagship product development:

Under the supervision of the creative director, collaborators, designers, etc., and businesses co-created this project, which took about three years to complete.

MITATE, one of the first phase products, was developed by nine team members of " Ricoh General Design Center x Ishii Seiko " as a Sumida Modern certified ALMA Ishii Seiko, known for its "exquisite technology to create beautifully colored metal products," developed the product from the perspective of the SDGs, which is " making things that are used and discarded reusable.

MITATE has an interesting feature in that it can be broken, which is a characteristic of disposable chopsticks, and can be re-fitted and broken again, which was achieved by designing a mating shape that is both "crisp to break" and "easy to stick".

Replacing something that wears out with metal" = "Replacing something that wears out with metal, and then replacing it with metal. ＝The MITATE brand was born in conjunction with Sumida Modern's philosophy of sustainability in terms of "replacing something with metal and making it 'look' like something.

Sumida Modern:

Sumida Modern: An initiative of the Sumida Regional Brand Strategy, which won the Good Design Award in 2015 for its brand certification program that identifies and certifies products and activities born in the region that have both traditions and new proposals that are unique to Sumida.