Sticks, pasta and braille all feature in an exhibition of chopsticks, presented at Milan design week by a new platform that brings together design from Japan, China and South Korea.

Chopsticks is the debut exhibition from S—3, an initiative from Yoko Choy of Cultural Associates and design fair Manifesto , aiming to connect East Asian design with a global audience.

Jin Kuramoto made his chopsticks from pasta

Choy invited 11 product designers to redesign chopsticks, based on their experiences and understandings of this centuries-old object.

"Chopsticks are a rare design object: universally familiar, yet profoundly cultural and historically grounded," she told Dezeen. "Few East Asian typologies hold this balance between specificity and contemporary relevance."

Mario Tsai designed a sharpening tool for turning twigs into chopsticks

Japanese designer Jin Kuramoto produced one of the most radical designs.…