Industrial design · Camping equipment

CooKit.

A compact cooking system for life away from the kitchen.

A modular camping-cookware concept bringing pans, plates, utensils, and a cutting board into a connected nesting system.

My contribution: Student product design, concept exploration & prototyping
Perspective: Products for people, across disciplines

CooKit design visualization — Design visualization

The useful question

Design starts
with use.

Camping equipment has to be useful when unpacked and manageable when carried. Loose parts take space, make noise, and can be easy to forget.

Developed as a university project in The Hague, CooKit explores components that nest and connect. The snap-together concept is intended to reduce rattling while keeping essential cooking tools together.

Decisions behind the form.

Form, function & context

Design the packed state

The system starts before cooking. Every component needs a deliberate place in the carried bundle.

Make relationships visible

The cutting board, utensils, and cookware should be understandable as a set, with a clear order for unpacking and repacking.

Balance convenience and care

A compact stack still needs safe handling, cleanable joins, and space for wet or dirty components after use.

Product system / Three states

Design for the whole cooking cycle.

01 / Carry

Packed together

The lid, utensils, cutting board, bowl, and pan form a nested set. Each part needs a defined place and a way to stay secure.

02 / Cook

Ready to use

Unpacking should expose the next useful part. The cutting board and utensils need to be reachable without disrupting the working setup.

03 / Clean & repack

Ready to carry again

Safe handling, cleanable joins, and separation of wet or dirty parts matter as much as the compact packed form.

Development gallery

From sketch to physical form.

Form explorations, component studies, and the CooKit model.

Physical CooKit model with cooking tools arranged in stacked layers — A physical model of the layered cooking kit.

CooKit sketches exploring the shape of a compact cooking container — Exploring the container’s form.

Exploded CooKit sketch showing how cooking components fit together — Working through the components and how they fit.

CooKit sketches showing preparation, cutting, and cooking tasks — Sketching the kit in use.

Next useful question

What I would
test next.

I would run a complete pack–cook–clean–repack trial outdoors. A compact render cannot show whether the system still makes sense with hot handles, wet surfaces, or one missing part.