Design lead
I was tasked with designing CamelBak’s first home filtration pitcher, with the goal of creating a product that offered great-tasting carbon filtered water faster than any other product on the market. After creating over 50 prototypes, we achieved this by being the first product ever to filter water as it was poured in and out of the pitcher.
I drew inspiration from living-hinge food container lids for the cover, which needed to reliably compress and seal the carafe, gasket, dual filter cartridge, and spout cover.
The water flow was tuned to resemble a waterfall on glass during the first filter step, and a high-end faucet stream going out.
Designed to filter and last for three months, the final configuration of the filter required scores of foam-core and vacuum-formed prototypes to make it easy for the consumer to install and solve the fluid mechanics.
Conventional cylindrical pitcher shapes were considered before deciding on the forward-swept wedge form to invoke speed and accommodate the pleated filter media.
Exploration sketches
Marketing image of the final product.
Marketing video for the final product.