Comments on: Bombay Sapphire Designer Glass Competition winners

By: EvoZ

EvoZ — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 00:05:47 +0000

I don’t mind ! Just a mistake to not understand that innovation is different from past -or traditional martini glass-. Nymphea is an original idea, creative and near from the nature, like the Lake Baikal. Bombay sapphire wants evolution so it looks like to be the right way.

By: Noel

Noel — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 20:06:27 +0000

Ramify is beautiful but the only design element which makes it stand apart from a traditional martini glass is concealed as soon as the user picks it up. I don’t think the judges really thought that one through.

By: telma

telma — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:48:52 +0000

For the winning glass – one thing comes to my mind – how long it would withstand a washing or would you need to replace the glass after each party. Looks so fragile. Or maybe – it’s just a glass for the presentations.
I preferred the 3rd place winner’s glass, but the website wouldn’t work when I tried to vote.
Anyway – great job those people have done.

By: rodger

rodger — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:32:24 +0000

I thought 1st position, ‘Ramify’, was well deserved. On brand with the sapphire inspire base, elegant and practical. Well Done.

By: Pin

Pin — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:05:44 +0000

And thricely so. However, the Swiss design was hardly a Martini Glass was it? As for functionality being taken into account, well… I preferred the Swedish entry personally; a clean blend of function and aesthetics that at least sought to address the competition’s brief. I could drink from that.

By: Noel

Noel — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:38:32 +0000

I agree with Rodger. I thought the point was to design a glass for martinis not for punch. Those martinis would become warm right away. In addition the 3rd place winner was the only one who placed and seemed inspired by Bombay Sapphire. He created a glass, which was iconic of that. My favorite was actually the US winner “On the Rocks” all of my design colleagues agreed as well. That designer actually creatively reinterpreted the martini glass while considering Bombay Sapphire as a brand. The 21 glasses all looked great in person. I just wish I could understand what the judges based their decisions on.

By: rodger

rodger — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:07:41 +0000

Ugly! I do not feel that second place, ‘Nyhmphéa’ (France), deserved the position. I felt that there were much better martinis on show,. I didn’t think it was anywhere near the most elegant, innovative, original or on brand design, nor did i feel that it enhanced the martini experience. I can only think that i think there may have been some sway from French judge Arik Levy!