New Festool Screwdriver & Lamp Design

[festoller]

I found this Festool design (obviously a study) by German industrial designer Sarah Böttger:

Although it really doesn't fit any recent Festool design, it looks interesting.

For more here's the site:

http://www.sarahboettger.com/10-0-Festool.html

 

[Frans]

The drill looks like a cheap hairdryer, the lamp like a cutting board, and why would anyone ever store a drill in a bookcase like that?
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[Kev]

Festool ignore these designs !!! Yuck.

 

[festoller]

My guess, this is a military version!

 

[GPowers]

Looks like the Festool GOLD model.

 

[Jesse Cloud]

My brother in law once bought my wife a "lady's toolkit" for Christmas - undersized hammer, pliers, and screwdriver, all colored pink.

To her credit, she threw it away.

Maybe this is a trial balloon for Lady Festool gear.

 

[Kevin D.]

Some artsy rendition by a designer/artist is all I can figure out.  Sorry, but they're no Andy Warhol soup cans imo.

One of her parents must have taken that bad brown acid at the Neil Young Concert  [scared] seeing as she was born in 1980.  [big grin]

 

[hobbes]

It's funny that some of you may not think much of it, but were it to be actually manufactured by Festool and they slap a limited edition label on there, I'm willing to bet a few might have their pre-orders in before it even ships...  [laughing]

 

[Kevin D.]

I can only see them as mock-ups for some lower base usage such as for brain surgery.  [scared]

No woodworker would adorn such.  [cool]

 

[Barry175]

I would buy that in a heartbeat, looks cool, compact and simple, plus I'm ex army so still kinda like the colour khaki haha.

 

[Rip Van Winkle]

The drill actually looks sort of like a heat gun Steinel manufactures. It's one Milwaukee rebrands as the model 8988-20 digital heat gun, or at least the older version of it. You can see it here.

http://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/product_200195724_200195724

It also sort of looks like some of the older 9.6 and 7.2 volt Fein cordless screwdrivers and drills, from about 15 to 20 years ago, and some of the really old AEG cordless drills.  I'd bet the design student was influenced by the style of tools made by German companies between twenty and thirty years ago.

 

[AlexThePalex]

Probably designs for Festool's new made in China line, $49.95 at Home Depot.

 

[Cheese]

I'm thinking this was possibly commissioned by Festool. Placing the Festool name on the drill and lamp is easy enough to do, but actually going to the additional effort of embossing Festool on the storage case that they show sandwiched between books, that seems like a lot of additional cost for something that won't be visible if all you want to produce is a concept.

However, the embossed Festool name certainly would be something that the Festool marketing people would want/drool over. It completes the package and we know how they love to tout the "Designed as a System" mantra.

I also noted that she states "In collaboration with Kathrin Schumacher and Cathrine Werdel." Could they be Festool employees?

 

[SittingElf]

My brother in law once bought my wife a "lady's toolkit" for Christmas - undersized hammer, pliers, and screwdriver, all colored pink.

To her credit, she threw it away.

Maybe this is a trial balloon for Lady Festool gear.

You mean like this? [big grin]

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Cheers,

Frank

 

[Cheese]

You mean like this? [big grin]

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Cheers,

Frank

Frank, I'd buy one of those for myself.

 

[teocaf]

I'm thinking this was possibly commissioned by Festool. Placing the Festool name on the drill and lamp is easy enough to do, but actually going to the additional effort of embossing Festool on the storage case that they show sandwiched between books, that seems like a lot of additional cost for something that won't be visible if all you want to produce is a concept.

However, the embossed Festool name certainly would be something that the Festool marketing people would want/drool over. It completes the package and we know how they love to tout the "Designed as a System" mantra.

I also noted that she states "In collaboration with Kathrin Schumacher and Cathrine Werdel." Could they be Festool employees?

the stuff on her website looks like the work of a design student, perhaps recently graduated.  it's possible that festool may have sponsored a contest at her design school, like other manufacturers do.  the designer may have collaborated with fellow classmates.  a lot of the stuff that looks to be built is most likely just modeled in very good software and photoshopped into real settings, although it is certainly true that the design students these days also have access to rapid prototyping processes that are way above what was available just a few years ago.

 

[DB10]

If this was "and what happens next competition" The top prize so far would have to go to Alex.

 

[John Broomall]

This looks like exhibition work from an Industrial Design program, any of these items can easily be fabricated by a talented student. Probably a senior project. What I find curious is that she uses the Festool name but not their "trade dress", the patterns of colors and shapes that define a particular brand. The name and trade dress are both covered by copyright or trademark law, I wonder why she did it this way, and without any acknowledgment. Definitely an oversight.