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Contemporary Fractal Cutlery

The Infinity Set by LhoghoNurbs Boast Mind-Bending Details

— September 25, 2012 — Art & Design
The Infinity Set is comprised of contemporary cutlery that tweaks traditional designs in exciting and subtle ways. Created for the website Fractal Forums' Annual Fractal Art Competition 2012, the unique utensils boast mind-bending details that will capture anyone's attention. For instance, the spoon looks like it is simply a pile of spoons decreasing in size, which is not the case at all. Instead, it is an illusory spoon. The knife, on the other hand, looks to be disintegrating right before people's eyes.

Designed by Fractal Forums user LhoghoNurbs, The Infinity Set includes four pieces: the Cantor fork that can pin a single kiwi seed, Recursive spoon that will reduce spills, Koch knife that can cut hair-thin slices out of an egg and The Infinity Set, which is a subset of itself.
Trend Themes
1. Fractal Cutlery - There is an opportunity for designers to create kitchenware with intricate details using fractal art.
2. Illusory Utensils - There is an opportunity for designers to create cutlery that plays with optical illusions and challenges traditional designs.
3. Disintegrating Knives - There is an opportunity for designers to create knives that have a unique design that looks like the blade is disintegrating.
Industry Implications
1. Kitchenware - The kitchenware industry could leverage fractal art to create unique and intricate designs for cutlery.
2. Art and Design - The art and design industry could create a new category of 'optical illusion' cutlery that challenges traditional design principles.
3. Innovative Utensils - There is an opportunity for a new industry of utensil design to emerge, with a focus on creating unique and artistic pieces of tableware.
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