Hasta La Ideas

For her graduation project at Stuttgart State Academy of Arts, Johanna Kleinert hopes “to reveal the relevance of old food preservation techniques, that nowadays are gaining interest again.”

The young designer drew inspiration from traditional WECK jars, an iconic food preservation vessel that is itself a cousin to the popular Ball mason jar here in the States. Thus, Kleinert has updated the drinking glass-like form factor with a new sealing mechanism, “based on an O-ring, which has several advantages compared to the conventional flat gasket.” This makes it both easier to open vacuum-sealed jars and allows for dry storage, sans vacuum.

As with fellow design student Larisa Daiga’s “Interactive Modular Set,” the handsome vessels can be labeled time and again for ease of reuse: “the upper part of the lid is not glazed, so that it can be labeled directly with a water-soluble pen.”

Similarly, the vessels vary in color and size, where the lower section of each lid can be glazed in a different color. The borosilicat glass, which comes in five proposed sizes, from 155mL to 1L, can be tinted gray or left clear.

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