At LUNAR, our designers are continually fascinated by the inherent, but often hidden and overlooked, beauty in everyday objects.
The addition of technology and endless array of useful “features” often dilute and inhibit what we feel can and should be delightful connections between people and objects.
For this year’s Taiwan Design Week “Invisible” exhibition, LUNAR’s Rob Swinton explored how technology can be utilized to not only enhance the usefulness of a product, but also to enable the crafting of a compelling and engaging visual expression.
The original hearth iron, in and of itself, is a beautifully useful object. Over time though, through the process of over-design and modernization, the visual impact of the original simplistic icon has all but been lost.
Rob’s goal was to re-capture the essence of the original icon, while evolving it to a more contemporary level–one that seizes on advances in technology and manufacturing processes to celebrate form and functionality. The concept is a single piece glass structure integrated with the internal gel core. When heated in the microwave, the gel core warms the encasing glass. It also acts as a visual thermometer to help gauge the best temperature for your fabric.
This concept experiment is part of an ongoing effort at LUNAR, where we encourage our designers to explore, in as diverse a manner as possible, ways in which their unique creative insights can bring a fresh perspective to how we do what we do.
