Growler — objective design

objective design

GLASS GROWLER

While at Studio One Eleven we partnered with Grandstand, a glass decorator in Kansas, to develop a custom 64oz growler package to sell with their printing services. My role on this project was design lead - guiding the design all the way into tooling.

At the initial phase of our project, myself and other members looked at existing growlers on the market and setup onsite meetings with local breweries, to better understand some of the pinch points when filling a growler. The learnings were essential to the project and from there we we're able to setup parameters to design around.

INITIAL SKETCHING

Once our design parameters were set, I began sketching concepts that were focused around a few key ideas: Increase the neck opening to help with pouring and filling. And modularity, an idea that could be added to Grandstand's business model by offering custom closures as an upgrade to their customers.

REFINED SKETCHING

The next step after our analysis phase and initial sketching was presenting the concepts to Grandstand at their facilities. This provided us the opportunity to see the full decorating process and to meet with our contact and the CEO to help them see our vision for their custom bottle. Below is the concept lineup we presented:

CAD DEVELOPMENT (BOTTLE)

After our presentation, we moved forward into CAD of the selected bottles to gain a better understanding of the ergonomics of the handle and overall proportions of our designs. To help work through the design of the handle we printed multiple chopped starch models to get a better feeling of fit and feel. At the end of this leg of the process we presented the two concepts in both full size models and Keyshot renderings.

CAD DEVELOPMENT (CAP)

Once they had narrowed down to the Roots concept (shown left above), I revisited the development of a custom closure that would essentially be a modern swing-top design. Again by printing multiple prototypes, I was able to narrow in on a design direction and develop a solid proof of concept before handing it off to the engineering team.