Kikkoman’s Soy Sauce Tabletop Dispenser

“The little bottle designed to bring you happiness.”

The design of this bottle was launched in 1961 by Kenji Ekuan (1929–2015) in Japan. With its distinctive red cap, the bottle has been a symbol of Kikkoman’s soy sauce and was sold in more than 100 countries.

Here are some features:

1. The red cap opening was cut at a reverse angle of 60 degrees (opposite angle like the tip of a teapot)and therefore has been overcome the problem of dripping sauce.
2. Ease with refilling: when you open the bottle, the opening widens upwards a little from the narrow waist. This makes it easier to pour into when refilling.

50 Rendering

• Hand Drawings

pencil on sketch paper

marker on sketch paper

abstract form, pencil, marker on sketch paper

abstract form, color pencil on sketch paper

color pencil on sketch paper

gouache on water color paper

poster, marker on paper

soy sauce on water color paper

• Printing

blue paint spray on cardboard cut out form

red and green gouache paint printed on sketch paper

yellow and orange paint printed on sketch paper

• Light and Shadow

light and shadows of soy sauce bottle, LEDs

• 3D Form

ice mold of soy sauce bottle (I don’t have a available original kikkoman bottle, so here I am using a slightly different one for replacement)

• Paper Folding (origami)

sketch paper folding

I wanted to use soy beans (because soy sauce is made out of soy beans) but I couldn’t find it in my local market, so here I used pepper instead to represent the idea.

• Digital

pencil brush

pointillism

inspired by Claude Monet ( sunrise, 1874, see image below ), impressionism

reference: Sunrise, Claude Monet, 1874

inspired by Vincent van Gogh, (Van Gogh’s Bedroom in Arles, 1889, see image below), post impressionism

Van Gogh’s Bedroom in Arles, Vincent van Gogh, 1889

inside of kikkoman’s soy sauce bottle

charcoal brush, kikkoman’s soy sauce bottle red cap

black and white, pencil brush sketch, person using kikkoman’s bottle

poster design for kikkoman’s bottle, (photo source: kikkoman.com)

artpaint brush, body of bottle with reflection

abstract poster design with bold colors

“technical drawing style” poster

digital layer effect

minimalism

Bauhaus style poster