Design Thesis: Design Fancy: Berit Kalmar

in 2007, Kalmar retired from the Trans-Continental Space Authority to start her own restaurant. From her own experience, and after listening to her friends talk about how they would eat pasta in space—she came up with the idea of combining potatoes with pasta. The pasta would form a sort of hairstyle on the potato which leads to some interesting names. For example, the picture below was called the "Val Kilmer Potato". Black pasta is used for the Elvis, Whole grain pasta is used for the Reagan.

Berit currently resides in Gary, Indiana and is married to Henderson Stevens (the inventor of the Henderson Graph). She spends most of her time working on new pasta/potato varieties and taking boozy walks down the railroad tracks. Want to get in touch with her? Best way is to go to Gary and ask around.

Design Fancy is a series of short stories about fictional designers who make fictional things. The stories (and the objects) are by Matt Brown.