A quilted washbag and a transparent oil burner are just some of the products conceived by ÉCAL graduate students in response to a brief set by Aesop.
The Australian skincare brand tasked 17 graduates from the Swiss university's Advanced Studies in Design for Luxury and Craftsmanship masters course with designing two accessories: an electric essential oil burner and a wash bag.
The brand specified that the products must be aesthetically pleasing, inventive and sustainable.
Aesop worked with 17 students from ÉCAL to create washbags and oil diffusers
Before starting work on the project, the graduates attended an in-depth presentation by the brand and a visited three Aesop stores in Zurich.
Following the workshop, under the leadership of ÉCAL professor and designer Tomas Kral, the students created prototypes that were then presented to a jury made up of Aesop brand executives, including Melbourne-based head of product Mandy Cupper. Margo Clavier was one of the students at ÉCAL to design an oil burner for Aesop
The jury selected 20 projects that used materials such as wood, cork, natural resins, ceramic, hand-blown glass and textile.
Students Julie Arnaud, Oubadah Nouktah, Omer Polak, Lucas Pouly, Amina Horozi?, Takako Sonoda, Min Kim, Go Takahashi, Garance Krengel, Nanasari Tamura, Jérôme Laurendeau, Aleksandra ?eromska, Kai-Hsuan Liu, and Aleksandra ?eromska and Omer Polak working together, all created one product for the collection.
The defuser designed by Oubadah N...