3rd place in the Kellogg Design Challenge

Bamboo Lotion Bottle

  • Codesign study planner & graphic designer

  • David Weinberg, Trishala Pillai, Ben Oppenheim, Arpan Chakraborty, Gazal Makkar

  • Adobe Photoshop, Render 360, CMU TechSpark 3D printers

  • September - November 2021

  • 3rd Place (among 60 projects) in the Kellogg Design Competition hosted by Northwestern University

The Kellogg Design Challenge

Each year, Northwestern University hosts a competition to encourage business and design graduate students to form interdisciplinary teams. This year’s competition was sponsored by Unilever, and teams were tasked with finding a way to to reduce plastic in Vaseline lotion bottles while improving customer experience.

 

The Vaseline Opportunity

How can we reimagine skincare packaging for the Vaseline hand and body lotion consumer to provide a superior consumer experience while using dramatically less plastic?

Our Process

Initial Inquiry

Question dump
Market observations
Netography

Survey

16 questions to identify co-designers

Co-Design

5 1.5-hr sessions

Prototype

3 3D printed prototypes

Focus Group

6 1-hr sessions with target audience

Refinements

1 final concept

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