Conair Desiccant Dryer Cart Redesign

Conair contracted Bally Design to provide aesthetic inspiration for the next-generation of their cart systems. These machines dry out plastic pellets as a part of the injection molding process.

I teamed up with a senior designer to create sketches showing different aesthetic directions Conair could take their new carts. I learned to ideate for sheet metal, keeping the material and manufacturing constraints in mind. Reducing cost was also a primary objective: our concepts addressed this through shrinking the size of aesthetic panels and adjusting the color of painted components to freshen the look.

I've included images that show the original and the final redesign, which represents Conair’s interpretation of our sketches.

Original Cart Design:

Redesign: