Product development
A US-basedlifestyle brand
Looking for the right Japanese ceramics for a new collection.
Launching their first ceramics collection, 250 to 1,000 pieces a SKU, sold mostly direct to consumer. Their two non-negotiables were not design ones. Dishwasher and microwave safe, and drop-test-safe packaging, because every order ships to a doorstep.
What we did
- Filtered from the non-negotiables first, before anyone talked about glaze colour
- Checked export experience workshop by workshop
- Tested glaze durability under repeated dishwasher cycles
- Confirmed packaging capability for direct-to-doorstep shipping
The craft
Japanese ceramics, where glaze chemistry and firing temperature decide whether a piece survives a dishwasher at all. Those two constraints alone rule out a large share of workshops, so finding that out early was the whole job.
The outcome
In production planning, with an evergreen core collection as the target rather than a seasonal drop.