London studio Pearson Lloyd has worked with design and 3D-manufacturing studio Batch.Works to create pen pots, trays and a mobile-phone stand made from discarded food packaging for office brand Bene.
The collection, called bFRIENDS by Bene, was 3D-printed from recycled polylactic acid (PLA) sourced from food packagings by Batch.Works.
The collection has five different designs in multiple colourways
It marks the first time that Pearson Lloyd has designed a 3D-printed product, though the studio has long used the technique to envision other projects.
"Up to now, we have always used 3D printing as a development tool for our projects," Pearson Lloyd co-founder Tom Lloyd told Dezeen.
The products are 3D-printed from recycled bioplastics "The technology has changed in nearly 20 years from an exotic and expensive tool that we used to replace hand-carved form models, to an engineering tool to test physical parts, and now to an affordable way of prototyping rapidly with the studio," he added.
"We run two desktop printers that cover most of our needs, and go out to more specialist companies for larger or more precise parts."
Pearson Lloyd worked with Batch.Works to produce bFRIENDS
The studio's designs for the bFRIENDS collection, which features organic, undulating shapes reminiscent of corals, came about because it wanted to eliminate the hand-finishing aspect and reduce the 3D printing time.
"To achieve this, we chose to develop a formal language ...