Anti-vandal support · Proeco

There are some objects that are auxiliary of others –such as supports and fixing systems– and for that reason we can easily think that its design is collateral or secondary. But the truth is that, instead, they are usually projects full of conditions and limitations, which means that the design process should be considered from its maximum expression: Industrial design in its purest form.

This is the case of DOSINOX 500, a support for the 500 ML Farmibac 85 hydroalcoholic gel that we designed for Proeco Químicas’ company. An element that had to be designed with very devilish variables, such as speed of manufacture, lack of investment, simplicity, ease of use, safety, anti-vandalism, quality, resistance, “minimalism” to give visual preference to the label and its low cost.

These restrictions have guied the solution and its result is so sincere, always giving preference – or accompanying, rather, a chemist with high pharmacological and disinfectant benefits that prevail over any other assessment. A harness that collects the container in an extremely safe way, preventing it from being easily stolen, and completely transferring the value of the main element that our client manufactures; the effective Farmibac 85 disinfectant.

The solution, circumscribed to the emergency of COVID-19, is made of stainless steel sheet and rod, it is a support of high quality and ease of use that allows it to be incorporated into the main product – the gel – with low extra cost but -and above all- it is a result thought from the emergency in a totally consistent and respectful way because, unlike many other design contributions raised by this pandemic, our approach is designed to last and it minimizes its environmental impact. Furthermore, as it is made of a single material, we encourage recycling. It is a sustainable design, locally manufactured that intends to last beyond the the health crisis we are experiencing now.

An object where its beauty lies in its efficiency and functionality and that also has, like a good design exercise, its own history; in this case the design is based on -or inspired by- the human safety systems of the most extreme attractions, a plot and project line that captivated the client from the beginning of the project, surely because the design can offer all kinds of visual results but the reality that we live as professional designers is that a practical and even prosaic result is frequently required.