Glass For Good

Method's first glass bottle, launched with SFMOMA and the Design Museum

Categories

Hand Care, Refill + Reuse

Deliverables

Concept, Industrial Design, CMF, Prototyping

Timeline

2018-2021

method’s first glass bottle started as a hunch: a durable, modern take on our iconic teardrop hand wash.

method’s first glass bottle started as a hunch: a durable, modern take on our iconic teardrop hand wash.

“Hunch” is method’s internal name for an early concept that needs incubating. I explored faceted forms that refract light, turning a static bottle into something more dynamic. After a series of clear prototypes, a high-end model stole the show at the Hunch Report share-out. The hardest part was commercializing something so far outside method’s core competency.

It launched as method’s first glass bottle with SFMOMA in a limited run of 5,000, with proceeds supporting the museum’s arts education programs. It returned in London in 100% post-consumer recycled glass, in partnership with the Design Museum and its Waste Age exhibition.

Glass for Good won two 2019 Pentawards, Gold in Home Improvement and Silver in Sustainable Design, and is featured in Taschen’s The Package Design Book 6.