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ELINOR TAL
Industrial Designer
CRACKED.
A series of innovative nut crackers for individual shells.
-Aluminum & Brass.
Year / 2017
Development Process
Conceptually exploring material and its ability to "crack under pressure".
As part of a studio exercise, we were required to design a metal product.
I wanted to check the metal's technological boundaries and use its imperfections and weaknesses to create a product, so I chose soft extruded metals which are easily processed but also easily damaged.
The more I studied and worked on the material, the more I discovered that it devolved new features such as flexibility, structural strength in certain places, and interesting spaces that I chose to reveal.
Logically, the product developed into a Nut Cracker.
This design for a nut cracker was chosen to represent the Midterm student exhibition spring 2017 as graphics for all publicity.
Design process and models
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