Uphold Cutlery: A Super Compact Pocket-Size Reusable Folding Travel Cutlery

I have always seen disposable cutleries as one of the biggest villain to the environment. As an architect and industrial designer, I know very well that you cannot have a sizeable piece of plastic product that is intended for one use only, especially when it is used for regular activities such as dining! I had this idea of a compact travel cutlery set all the way back in 2017, when our team was looking at how folding geometries can make travel goods easier to carry by making them as flat as possible. News about possible bans on single-use plastics surfaced in 2019, and the pandemic that followed accelerated the calls to action around the world, as plastic waste shot up astronomically. In this time, major countries around the world began legislation on a ban in the distribution and use of single-use plastics. We took the opportunity to accelerate product development from 2019 and got the product ready in 2 years!