New Bottle Design

Schweppes enlisted Birdstone, a Melbourne, Australia based packaging agency to design a contemporary look for their sparkling waters and carbonated soft drinks.

Challenge:

Validate new bottle design across glass and PET plastic materials.

Solution:

Using a combination of SLA 3D printing and CNC machining technologies, water clear prototype models were created and polished to a very high standard.

A total of six bottles were made across three design concepts, which were then subjected to a week of hands-on consumer research.

Result:

According to Birdstone, both prototyping processes produced outstanding replicas of the production materials.

Prototypes matched the appearance, weight and visual properties of glass and PET.
Expert guidance by Formero team meant true-to-life prototypes supplied.
Timely delivery kept project moving forward on track.