Orca
Orca Nut Cracker by Hakan Gürsu is a winner of the 2014 Iron A' Design Award in Bakeware, Tableware, Drinkware and Cookware Design.
Orca is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations.
Explore This Amazing WorkOrca Nut Cracker
Nutcracker for two, Orca offers a social nut cracking experience instead of one cracks and the other eats. Orca, worthy of the name, is capable of easy and certain cracking thanks to its sharp inner surface. Silicon parts provide an easy grip to design. Magnets enable utensil to be stored compactly when not in use. Introducing the killer whale to kitchen, Orca becomes as indispensable as nuts.
Featured Design
Orca by Hakan Gürsu
Core Functionality
Nut Cracker
Accolades
Bakeware, Tableware, Drinkware and Cookware Design Award Winner in 2014.
Iron Winner
Orca Nut Cracker
Orca is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations. Iron winners demonstrate great skill, high specialization, expert understanding, and creative capacity of their creators. Orca is expected to be a highly-regarded, admired, and cherished creation that is practical and innovative. This Iron A' Design Award-winning design integrates industry best practices and has competent technical characteristics linked with know-how and talent. Orca is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.
Winner Designer
Hakan Gürsu
Industrial Designer Dr. Hakan Gürsu, has succeeded as an extraordinary illustrator, designer and intellectual internationally. DESIGNNOBIS Design / Innovation firm that he has founded is selected among Turkey’s Top 40 Entrepreneur Firms. He’s been honored in world’s prestigious design competitions by winning over 205 design awards within 14 years and made Turkey rank second in design field. He contributed to several national and international organizations as a speaker on innovation, creative thinking, design and R&D. Ranging from boats, toys and furniture to electrical devices, his environmentally friendly and visionary projects are introducing unusual solutions to common problems. He continues to train design students at METU.
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Designnobis
Designnobis is an award winning design consultancy with a visionary approach on product design. Founded in 2006, we have ranked among top industrial design firms by achieving nearly a hundred design awards only through 7 years. Specializing in product development and brand identity, we help our clients to differentiate in market by creating products and services with strategic value. We handle design services from research and concept development phase to prototyping and production process. Acting upon the creativity and interdisciplinary teamwork that product development process requires, we aim to become a sustainable innovation center. Our skills include product design, space design, strategy development, brand identity, prototyping and graphic design.
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