Slim Line water jug.
Object · 2017

Slim Line, a jug that asks to be put back.

A water jug shaped around minimalism. The rounded base means it can't sit on its own. It has to return to its housing. The form is the behaviour.

TypeWater jug
MaterialsGlass · timber housing
Year2017
Iterations7

Brief

The Slim Line water jug is designed around the ideals of minimalism. The rounded bottom means it refuses to stand on its own, so it has to go back into its housing every time. The dining table stays uncluttered by the act of using it.

Process

Pulled from the original presentation deck: research, ideation, and the feature spec for the final jug and housing.

Slim Line: research board of existing water-jug designs.
Research: precedent in existing jug design. Jensen, Bredahl, Son, Avanti.
Slim Line: thumbnail sketches and digital concepts.
Ideation: thumbnail sketches and the digital concepts that came out of them.
Slim Line water jug seated in its timber housing.
Slim Line with its housing.
Slim Line: pour, hand cradling the rounded base.
Pour: rounded base in use.
Slim Line returning to its housing.
Return: jug back in its housing.
Slim Line water jug, alternate view.
Slim Line water jug in use: pouring into a cut-glass tumbler on a timber table.
In use: the jug doing what it was made to do.

Methods

Industrial design Object design Behavioural form Materials

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