Banana Case

A banana-shaped eyewear case for Sajú. A playful idea that took a long process of drawing, testing and refinement to become a working object.

Inside the project ↓

Yellow Sajú Banana Case with a curved, faceted silhouette

01 / THE CHALLENGE

Make room.
Keep the banana.

The hardest part was fitting a pair of glasses inside without losing the banana’s morphology. More interior space could easily make the object too bulky; a slimmer silhouette could leave too little room for the eyewear.

That balance took time. Several attempts were needed before the shape and its function could work together.

Perspective sketch of the curved Banana Case and its faceted surfaces — Shape studies / perspective

Shape studies / profile

02 / TWO DIRECTIONS

One idea.
More than one way in.

The development explored different ways of dividing and opening the rigid shell. The opening line had to give access to the glasses while remaining part of the banana’s outline.

Early grey 3D studies showing different opening directions for the rigid Banana Case — Direction 01 / opening studies

Yellow rigid Banana Case proposal with a curved opening line — Direction 02 / a curved opening line

3D perspective study of the faceted yellow Banana Case — 3D studies / facets and volume

End view of the Banana Case showing its narrow cross-section — 3D studies / cross-section

03 / TEST, ADJUST, REPEAT

The answer was
in the prototypes.

Moving from a drawing to a physical sample exposed the difficult details: the curve, the rim and the way the two parts met. The project archive records those adjustments directly on photographs of the prototypes.

Each revision was a way to protect the original idea while making the case work in the hand.

White Banana Case volume prototype on a green cutting mat — Testing the volume

Open yellow prototype with a drawn correction along its inner rim — Refining the rim

Yellow prototype with red annotations marking the curve to adjust — Revisiting the contour

FROM THE FACTORY

The shape becomes tangible.

The factory photographs bring another part of the process into view: the tooling, the curved shells and the work behind the finished surface.

Factory press with banana-shaped tooling and two case shells — In the workshop / press and tooling

Banana-shaped metal tooling on the workshop bench — Following the curve / tooling detail

Curved metal case shells stacked on a factory workbench — Before the finish / metal shells

Metal Banana Case shells collected during production development — From the development archive / metal shells

04 / THE FINAL DIRECTION

A simple gesture.
A long development.

The final direction brings together the curved profile, faceted body and an opening that reveals the glasses inside. What reads as a simple object is the result of repeated decisions about space and shape.

The banana identity lives in the silhouette as well as the yellow. As Lucas observed during development, changing the colour did not erase the character of the object.

3D rendering of the open rigid Banana Case with its interior visible — The final direction / opening and interior

05 / FROM IDEA TO OBJECT

Ready to hold
something unexpected.

The finished case keeps the playful first impression, then reveals its purpose when opened.

Open yellow Banana Case holding glasses on a silver tray — The finished case / open

Two finished yellow Sajú Banana Cases showing their curved shapes and embossed logos — The finished case / silhouette

THE SAJÚ CAMPAIGN

Out in the world.

From the workshop to Sajú’s playful photographic world: a familiar shape, carried in unexpected ways.

Yellow Banana Cases arranged together with a pair of glasses in the Sajú campaign

Yellow Banana Case tucked into a denim pocket beside a yellow bag

Silver-gloved hands holding several yellow Banana Cases

Hand holding a yellow woven bag filled with Banana Cases

MILOSSI × SAJÚ

A banana.
With room for glasses.

Design: Lucas Milossi, in collaboration with Sajú. Development images from the project archive. Final photographs supplied by Sajú. The two studio images have retouched backgrounds, colour and contrast; the campaign photographs retain their original art direction.

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Make room.Keep the banana.

One idea.More than one way in.

The answer wasin the prototypes.