Kandoo Handsoap

Enabling play (and clean hands) for kids.

When Nehemiah Manufacturing, a licensee of P&G's Pampers brand, was looking to relaunch the neglected Kandoo brand, they came to our team. The charter was to design and launch a range of bodywash, shampoo, hand soap and hand sanitizer packages that reinforced the brand attributes of 'enabling play.' The Kandoo brand targets young children who are learning to enjoy independence.

The Studio One Eleven team met with mothers and kids to understand how and where they use these product types. We uncovered the need for a hand sanitizer package to travel in the car and for easy use in unreachable and unstable locations like bath products on sink or tub ledges.

The Corner Buddy package met these needs by fitting snugly in the tub or sink corner and car cup holder. The development process included hand and CAD sculpting for the lifelike Kandoo frog character features and resulted in a unique package that makes staying clean fun and safe for young kids.

The National Association of Container Distributors awarded the package a 'Best of Show' award, and the product was featured in The Wall Street Journal.

NuSkin Travel Case

Matt Creed · August 7, 2020

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NuSkin Travel Case

ageLOC Me skin care product removes the mess from traveling.

The leading direct-selling company, Nu Skin, has enjoyed success with its flagship ageLOC® Me skin care products. The ageLOC Me line employs state-of-the-art technology and breakthrough anti-aging formulations to produce totally customized skin care with tailored creams and serums delivered through a touchless countertop dispenser.

As their customers swear by their skin care regimens, they don’t want to interrupt the program during travel. Nu Skin needed a vehicle whereby ageLOC Me users could continue to use their customized formulations daily whenever away from home. Nu Skin approached Studio One Eleven, who also played a key design and engineering role in the countertop dispenser, with a request for a container that extended the clean, elegant look of ageLOC Me into a convenience travel pack.

The resulting Studio One Eleven design is a completely custom multi-jar injection-molded unit, utilizing ABS for the jars, thermoplastic elastomers for the over-molded feet, and polypropylene for the jar liners. The stacking jars nest into each other for easy transport, and each jar has integrated labeled lids for completely clear product identification. The set consists of multiple jars, each dedicated to one of the three customized formulas dispensed from the device: day cream, night cream, and a combination of three specialized serums. The jars are ingeniously-designed to fit perfectly and precisely under the point of dispensation on the device, making filling and re-filling effortless and clean.

Stylish and durable enough for heavy travel, the ageLOC Me Travel Pack holds days worth of product, and fits easily into an airplane carry-on, cosmetic pouch, sport sack or overnight bag.

The design facilitates brand loyalty by making it effortless for users to continue their valued ageLOC Me customized skin care regimen whenever they are away from home. It has been well-received in the marketplace and has enhanced ageLOC Me market share as loyal users enjoy the continuity in skin care this unit facilitates.

Forever Living Essential Oils

Studio One Eleven · August 7, 2020

For their new Essential Oils product, they needed a breakout design to house a complex line that could withstand the rigors of distribution via everything from professional shipping to an individual’s car trunk.

ORS Olive Oil Hair Care

Richard Jackson · December 3, 2019

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ORS Olive Oil Hair Care

Smooth operator.

Great beauty care products deserve beautiful packaging. When ORS was looking to launch their new sub-line of premium hair care products, they came to Studio One Eleven to hit the beauty mark. Our design team created a waisted bottle shape with soft curves that reflect the brand promise of smooth, wavy hair. We customized both an upright and inverted design that could translate across multiple bottle sizes in both clear PET and colored HDPE. And as with all Studio One Eleven projects we specified the ideal manufacturing platform for each of the custom bottles and managed the project through commercial fulfillment. Great design is a thing of beauty!

Personal Care, Product Design

Celeste Industries

Studio One Eleven · August 13, 2015

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Celeste Industries Flight Luxe

Scented-resin collar lets airline soap system do double duty.

A few years ago, Celeste Industries came up with a new product concept that it knew would fly with the airline industry. The company envisioned combining airline lavatory soap and air freshener in a single unit, eliminating the extra steps involved in installing and replenishing separate sink-mounted soap bottles and wall mounted air freshener discs. Shortly after the first-generation product was launched, Celeste worked to develop the next generation packaging to improve performance and aesthetics.

A new design by Berlin Packaging's Studio One Eleven solved the problem with a change in the fragrance delivery system. Designers replaced an industrial-looking fragrance band that was difficult to apply, leaked onto users' fingers, and consumed nearly half of the available label space with a custom scented resin collar that fits seamlessly over the tapered shoulder of the company’s 8 oz PVC Flight Luxe soap bottle.

Fragrance is released from the underside as well as the face of the collar component through a series of perforations engineered to promote maximum air flow. The collar easily drops on to the shoulder before capping. Label real estate has doubled to enable upgraded branding, and soap and air freshener can now be replenished simultaneously.

The new package design also:

Reduced bottle weight by more than 10% to comply with California regulations
Updated the look of the Flight Luxe line without requiring existing customers to replace the support bases already installed on their lavatory sinks
Replaced disparate bottle structures with a uniform look across the line's scented and unscented SKUs
Supports both threaded and snap bases to fit the various counter mounting styles used by different airlines

The new package has been adopted by multiple airlines.