Brand-Led Product Design · Home & Wellness

A brand promises a way of living. The object keeps it.

For DTC founders who want the product to say what the brand already says.

iF · Good Design · 11 years in Japan

Selected partners

Hello Klean Burst Noend

Why product design

The product is where the brand story is held, not told.

Ads can tell the story. The object has to hold up without them.
That takes clarity, direction and coherence.

  1. 01 — Clarity

    Read the brand.

    What should this product mean to this customer, in this market?

  2. 02 — Direction

    Translate the story.

    Turn that meaning into one clear product language.

  3. 03 — Coherence

    Keep it whole.

    Across the product, the line, and every decision that follows.

The service is judgement. The object is the proof.

Selected Work

HelloKlean shower filter, showerhead and Filter 01 box in morning light

CMF Strategy · Industrial Design2024

HelloKlean

A plumbing component, read as skincare — three products, one ritual, photographed by customers unprompted. Then: a strategic investment from Brita, and a Selfridges listing.

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Noend Air Blow hair dryer, triangular ergonomic form

Industrial Design · Japan2022

Noend Air Blow

Performance made visible: one triangle for the grip and the airflow. A Best Buy feature in Kaden Hihyoban, Japan's leading consumer-electronics review magazine.

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Purest Flow humidifying air purifier in a sunlit room

Industrial Design · Japan2019

Purest Flow

Clean air is a promise you can't see. This purifier lets you see it — status as breathing light, not code. iF Design Award, and a Good Design Award.

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Cadre BioFresher chrome display window

Industrial Design · DTC Wellness2023

Cadre BioFresher

A food sanitizer made to sit beside Le Creuset and Chemex — one quiet form, IPX7-waterproof, with a cradle that doubles as a stand. Made for the counter, not the drawer.

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Ways to work together

From brand story
to the object in hand.

A brand speaks through its name, its voice, its price. Too often, its product says something else. Closing that gap is the work — and it starts long before the first sketch.

Jinni Zhang at the concept wall, mid-project

Concept wall, HelloKlean — each direction answers to the brand story, or comes down.

Jinni Zhang at the concept wall, mid-project
Concept wall, HelloKlean — each direction answers to the brand story, or comes down.

The Studio

“The moment a person falls in love with an object happens before they understand why. That is where I work.”

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