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A Student’s Reverse Engineered Home Goods That Started With The Disappointing Part

As part of her work at Lund University’s School of Industrial Design, Anna Gudmundsdottir got chummier than usual with the factories nearby. While developing her Beyond Local line of minimal home goods, she worked backwards through the standard ideation process. Beginning with consultations with multiple producers she took their manufacturing limitations and scare stories to heart first, before even hitting the drawing board. 

In partnership with seven local factories, including a tube bending facility, brush makers, and rubber producers, she dialed in a set of tight material and form limitations that set the aesthetic basis for her work. Throughout the final products, you’ll see familiar tubing sizes and traditional brushes, tweaked gently towards haptic enjoyment and paired with unexpected materials. 

There’s a toilet brush featuring an easily produced bell shaped holder, with anti-slip rubber base. And a dust pan and brush set with oversized but inviting handles. There are silly but fun rubber wall hooks and toilet paper holders. All in all, it’s a cleanup job of taking production constraints to heart.