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Brunner Mettler

Awarded

Brunner Mettler: Thilo Alex Brunner / Jörg Mettler

'SIGG THERMO', thermo bottle / paraglider for Advance / running apparel for ON

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Jury report

Thermo family
Breath­ing new life into a long-es­tab­lished clas­sic of Swiss prod­uct de­sign is one of the biggest tasks and chal­lenges a de­signer can face. Re­tain­ing what works while si­mul­ta­ne­ously in­cor­po­rat­ing novel el­e­ments takes real tal­ent.
Prod­uct de­sign­ers Thilo Alex Brun­ner and Jörg Met­tler win a Swiss De­sign Award for the sec­ond time for their in­no­v­a­tive con­cepts, which are often pro­duced in col­lab­o­ra­tion with big names and well known brands.
They re­ceive the ac­co­lade this year for their rein­ter­pre­ta­tions of the SIGG ‘Thermo’ bot­tle. The com­mis­sion formed part of a brand repo­si­tion­ing that in­volved giv­ing the prod­uct a new look and plac­ing de­sign and pro­duc­tion in Swiss hands. The com­pany had sold ther­mos flasks be­fore, but they were nei­ther man­u­fac­tured nor de­signed in Switzer­land.
The iconic screw top as well as the shape of the bot­tle shoul­ders typ­i­cal of the brand were re­tained in the new se­ries, but the bot­tles them­selves were given a con­tem­po­rary ap­pear­ance, aban­don­ing the some­what nar­rower cap in favour of a less geo­met­ric form bet­ter suited to a hot drink con­tainer.
The duo suc­cess­fully over­came the chal­lenge of trans­lat­ing the in­su­lat­ing prop­er­ties of a ther­mos flask into a clear and con­tem­po­rary form while re­tain­ing the tra­di­tional fea­tures that dis­tin­guish the brand. Brun­ner­Met­tler have once again demon­strated their abil­ity to bal­ance the de­mands of a com­mis­sion with their own aes­thetic am­bi­tions.
Mar­tina Longo

Biography

Thilo Alex Brunner
Born in
1977
Education
Industrial Designer
Group name
Brunner Mettler

auch im Jahr aussi en anche nel also in

2011

Jörg Mettler
Born in
1979
Education
Industrial Designer
Group name
Brunner Mettler

also in

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