This is an old favourite of mine. I did it years ago when I was studying in Sydney and we got an assignment to design products for The Eco Hotel Group – an environmentally friendly hotel. All the products had to meet a certain standard and be eco-friendly. The shape of my design was inspired by mother nature (specially trees and the branches) and by this make the connection to the environment even stronger.

After a lot of research I decided that my material was going to be Cornstarch since it’s biodegradable, it’s toxic free and most important, it’s based on natural resources.

The method used to create all the products is by stretch blow moulding. In the Stretch Blow Molding (SBM) process, the plastic is first molded into a “preform” using the Injection Molded Process. These preforms are produced with the necks of the products, including threads (the “finish”) on one end. These preforms are packaged, and fed later (after cooling) into an EBM blow molding machine. In the SBM process, the preforms are heated (typically using infrared heaters) above their glass transition temperature, then blown using high pressure air into bottles using metal blow molds. Usually the preform is stretched with a core rod as part of the process.

How it works