A Zippo lighter with the original hinge I set out to redesign to give it more aesthetic value.
The five final redesigns.
My favorite design out of the five, a ball-joint hinge.
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Redesign of a Zippo hinge
The assignment was to choose a detail of a product and create five redesigns of it. I chose a hinge from a Zippo lighter. Through a wide exploration with sketching and especially physical modeling I came to these five designs.