Bocci - Design and Manufacturing Company

"Bocci is a contemporary design and manufacturing house". They are originally based in Canada, but they also have a 'satellite' company in Germany. They make high quality consumer goods that are not only practical, but are very unique and stand-out too.

After becoming a fully formed company in 2005, Bocci produces immaculate custom-made designs of lighting, furniture, objects and electrical accessories, that have "gained significant presence and impact within the design community".

Bocci focus on innovation, which leads them to creating new designs that are technically better than all other products. This has been shown in the lighting area of their industry, where they realised failure was coming from the standard design of light bulbs, so Bocci now make their own Xenon and LED bulbs, which have proved better than any others in the lighting industry. Their LED lights use a 'unique replacement design' that eliminates waste that is associated with failure and the light bulb itself only need replacing, rather than the entire product, as with other LED lights. Therefore, Bocci have reduced the amount of waste that would then be sent to the landfill and it protects the customers' investment into the product. As a result, this helps protect the environment and significantly saves energy.

Bocci's main inspiration for this is sustainability. In order to create a sustainable product, Bocci believes the product should be able to live along-side you throughout your lifetime. Bocci also push this sustainability further by helping the current environment. To do this they use recycled and recyclable packaging. As well as making some of their products out of recycled materials, for example, the 14 series cast glass chandelier that is made out of recycled glass.

Bocci hope to have made a change and started a new ethical consumptive trend and with this, the consumer may consider more sustainable alternatives that they hadn't previously known about.

References:
http://bocci.ca/about/

CATEGORY: ART & DESIGN and TECHNOLOGY