Japanese designer Ryohei Yoshiyuki has designed an ash tray made of used coffee grounds.
The coffee is meant to absorb the smell from the cigarette ash.
Here’s a little more from Yoshiyuki:
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The name of project is “a cup of coffee”.
Some people has habit that putting coffee grounds to the ashtray, so that it takes the smell.
From that habit, I designed ashtray “a cup of coffee” which out of coffee beans after we made coffee. It could fit for a cigarette with your “a cup of coffee”.
A man
A break
A cup of coffee
A cigarette
even that little time might be the best moment in your day.
A cup of coffee is the ash tray that is made of the coffee beans that after we made coffee.
Enjoy a cigarette like you enjoy a cup of coffee.
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Posted by Rose Etherington
August 16th, 2009 at 3:41 am
I like the ashtray but I dig the poetry of the explanation even more and also the poetry in the poetry of the explanation.
August 16th, 2009 at 3:45 am
I hope this is a joke. If not, it’s disturbing to see something like this published in Dezeen. Those sorts of ideas can only occur to a person on a heavy hangover. A coffee ground ashtray – now you room will reek not only of cigarette smoke, but also of moldy coffee grounds. Enjoy! Is Dezeen running out of material or simply beginning to slip in the time of economical crises.
August 16th, 2009 at 7:51 am
simple smart and pretty.
what can i ask more.
August 16th, 2009 at 9:31 am
His design is simple , poetic and gentle.
He is the genuine designer which Japan is proud of.
August 16th, 2009 at 11:26 am
That’s great. These really fit together cause both stink.
August 16th, 2009 at 11:48 am
Feels a bit like a shin azumi and a naoto fukasawa combined together..
Nevertheless, nice job there~!
August 16th, 2009 at 7:52 pm
ohh as a fan of coffee, cigarettes and recyling – im all for this (in principle). not sure how it works in practice though..?
August 17th, 2009 at 1:41 am
I made an ashtray out of rose petals cause roses smell pretty.
SO WHAT.
August 17th, 2009 at 6:01 am
The absurd thing about this design is that he wants to save the coffee grounds as an ashtray and not re-use them to fertilize the earth. Whereas the cigarette but that is put into the ashtray will last many years in the environment. If he had a design to recycle the cigarette but, that would be interesting.
Stop the greenwashing!
August 17th, 2009 at 1:48 pm
good job!! very good for environment
i like its title cuz its not actually ” a cup of coffee”. i support♪日本人♪
August 17th, 2009 at 11:48 pm
A clever idea, assuming the fabrication process is simple. Some environmental facts for the multiple misinformed comments:
The ash tray can still be composted after use…this just adds an extra stage to the life cycle of the material, and is therefore beneficial.
Smoking is terrible for the environment, and recycling the occasional coffee ground pile does not balance this out.
Coffee grounds smell bad and become moldy when they are left moist. Wet grounds will however dry quickly when well ventilated, particularly after having been compressed to form this ashtray. In other words, this will not have a bad odor.
August 18th, 2009 at 3:56 am
I appreciate it as it attempted to solve a environmental problem rather than most of the others who just play with the appearance.
August 18th, 2009 at 5:30 am
smart…simple…. and easy…
smart commonsense….still a great idea!
loved it!
August 18th, 2009 at 5:02 pm
What a great idea. Designers: take this idea farther!
August 18th, 2009 at 6:33 pm
It’s funny how similar ideas seem to pop up at the same time. I saw a television item on a young dutch designer’s work whose doing the exact same thing:
http://hautenature.blogspot.com/2008/04/matthijs-vogels-recycled-wastewear.html
August 20th, 2009 at 12:48 pm
well..i think this is original, some may don’t like it…
I see this as a good way to make use of remnant after making a coffee…
no need to keep it for long, disposable yet environmental friendly…
thou, I still don’t think smoking is good