Rationale
The jellyfish inspires this design. From the research of jellyfish, they have a basic body structure, and they are not even vertebrates. The Jellyfish body consist of over 95% water; most of their umbrella mass is a gelatinous material. This causes when jellyfish come out of water, they become flat. According to jellyfish’s nature character, I am thinking that I can design something in order to solving the problem of lack space. Also, base on the shape of the jellyfish, it looks like a container and a strainer. Therefore, I am start thinking that I should make this container soft enough to fold, also is hard enough to be a container. Then I started with some sketches about how the container looks like. Then when I get a general idea of it, I decided to research material. Polypropylene ropes, which is cheap, strong, unaffected by water, and safe for food. Then I was working with lots of mock-ups, because this material, you cannot draw the sketches to show actually how it will looks like. The way of knitting this, I basically follow the structure of jellyfish itself. Moreover, this design also can be a basket strainer. The way of knitting those squares around the side is helping people to hold it and filter for water.