It seems nendo likes to experiment with the sweeter side of design. Last year, it released chocolatetexture, a chocolate production that resulted in nine individual chocolate pieces with carefully designed textures and structures. This year, nendo continues its chocolate investigation with chocolatetexturebar, created for by | n.
According to nendo’s website, the bar was created “based on the theme of chocolates with the same raw materials but with diverse textures, and different tastes created from those distinctive textures.” The design of the bar caters to the different parts of the tasting experience, nendo explains. These include the stages of “bite,” “roll in mouth,” and “swallow.” By including different textures, the bar addresses each stage of this process for a heightened experience. As the eater’s tongue touches each texture, “one can enjoy a new taste dimension that is unlike any other conventional chocolates.”
The bar looks almost architectural in its design, each texture made up of a very specific pattern and depth. Each square gets divided into 12 different patterns, ranging from “dots” to “checkered patterns.” Some of these patterns seem raised while others form from indentations in the top of the chocolate square. From afar, the bar looks almost too beautifully designed to eat but the patterns seem to add a sumptuousness that still beckons the chocolate lover to take a bite.
The bar currently comes in five flavors: milk, strawberry, white, bitter and matcha. The strawberry and matcha bars seem more playful in their bright colors and make the patterns seem even more whimsical. As a purely design object, chocolatetexturebar looks sleek, both wrapped and unwrapped—so long as owners can resist taking a bite.
Source: psfk.com
