PLACEHOLDER: the choice that had to be made
- Chose
- What was chosen
- Because
- The reasoning
- Cost
- What the choice gave up. Required. The build fails if this is empty
Eggbath Cooker
A countertop egg cooker, designed for tooling and a crowdfunding launch.
- Client
- Daniel Burke
- Year
- 2022
- Role
- Design lead
- Outcome
- 000 Placeholder
- Scope owned and directed
- Owned industrial design and brand for a countertop cooking product, coordinating tooling and packaging through to a funded launch.
Brief
PLACEHOLDER. 60 to 90 words describing what the client came with, the actual problem, in their words. Lucas is supplying this copy.
Constraints
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- Budget, tooling, MOQ, materials, timeline or regulatory constraint
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- A second real constraint
Process
Activities and deliverables
| Activities | Deliverables |
|---|---|
| Design: CMF palette, aroma-vent studies | Countertop cooker |
| Compliance: UL low-voltage, FDA resin DOC | Brand identity and visual design |
| Packaging: gift box, die-cut insert, recipe booklet | Gift box, insert, recipe booklet |
| Crowdfunding: 3-tier rewards, influencer seeding | Kickstarter campaign |
| Scale-up: MOQ renegotiation, FOB consolidation | Production and supply chain |
Collaborators
| Name | Discipline | Contribution |
|---|---|---|
| TK | Design | TK |
| TK | Engineering | TK |
Process
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narrative live here using CalloutFigure and image components.
Where the practices met
PLACEHOLDER. The handoff points where one practice constrained another. This is the block that proves integration rather than asserting it.
Decisions
PLACEHOLDER: a second real fork
- Chose
- What was chosen
- Because
- The reasoning
- Cost
- What it cost
Outcome
- 000
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- 000
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Retrospect
PLACEHOLDER. 40 to 60 words on what you would do differently.