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“Generally speaking, do tools necessarily have to be ugly? We don’t think so.”

Most tools are beautiful, especially the ones that I’ve inherited from my granddad’s. They have a purity about them that exists because they are designed without consideration of fashion.
I particularly like ad-hoc tools that are developed through use. The tools that work perfect for tasks specific to your house. The tools that are acquired over time. The tools that would not fit into this unit.

Generally speaking, do we need to design the hell out of a set of pliers. I don’t think so.

I think you’ve missed the point completely, look at how people actually use tools in there homes.

yea – i agree with warren!

Yes, you might be right if you look from a professional perspective! but would you place your tools in a visible area in your small apartment without storage room, garage or basement? the most people use there tools once a time and buy cheep and ugly tools for under 10 bugs. and how is it usually, the tools flying around in a trunk or garage or basement without being perceived. there are just some freaks they prepare walls with outlines to place tools always at the same spot.

Yes, you might be right if you look from a professional perspective! but would you place your tools in a visible area in your small apartment without storage room, garage or basement? the most people use there tools once a time and buy cheep and ugly tools for under 10 bugs. and how is it usually, the tools flying around in a trunk or garage or basement without being perceived. there are just some freaks they prepare walls with outlines to place tools always at the same spot.
thats reality…

I’m not looking from a professional perspective. Rather, the exact opposite. I’m looking at this in a domestic sense.
I think a sequence of events similar to this is more likely:
The first time you need to put something up straight (a shelf perhaps) you realise that your £99.00 set of tools doesn’t have a spirit level. You venture down to the local hardware shop where they don’t stock spirit levels with blue discs on them, they only stock the bright yellow ones made by Stanley. You need a spirit level, so you buy it. After putting up the shelf you realise that your new spirit level doesn’t have a place in your display case of tools. It finds it’s way to the kitchen draw.
Six months later you need to put up a towel rail, you realise that the Rawl plugs supplied need a different diameter drill bit than the 4 that came with your £99.00 tool set. Back to the hardware shop where you realise you can buy a whole set of drill bits on offer for £4.99. You buy them. You put up the towel rail and then realise that there is no allocated space for your new drill bits in your display case. Into kitchen drawer.
Six months later, Ikea have a new Billy bookcase in gloss black for £19.99. Your books are going to look the nuts in that. You buy it. Now your original white Billy bookcase is surplus to requirements. You don’t mind throwing away the chipboard bookcase but you can’t bring yourself to throw away your £99.00 tool set – after all, that is ‘one handy tape measure’. Into the kitchen drawer it goes with all the other accumulated ‘useful’ objects (the plug fuses, the light bulbs, the shoe laces, the batteries [new and old], the masking tape, the paint brushes, the butter knife with a broken end that you discovered works perfectly to remove the damaged screw in the living room door handle).
That’s reality…

i’m curious as to what wonder-material the tools would be made of. a loose plastic casing (with time that is) would become less accurate. love the render, maybe good for people that almost never do anything themselves, but in which case, advertising the number of the guy they call to fix everything may be more profitable.

WOW, i want to know who is the chick…

They definitely look art-full but art-full doesn’t mean functional. I think it would be fine if they were just cool looking tools but it looks like the functionality is effected by the design, mostly on the drill.

wow! i love the idea of this toolset. what materials are the tools made of?

This is a great concept for a demographic that really hasn’t been addressed well. One critique I would present is that for the carrying case, how would you pull by hand some of those tools out? It seems like a better way of doing the case would be to take away the pushed out circular knobs that match each tool and instead take advantage of the circular hole on each tool as a handle hold to remove them from the case more easily.

Keep up the forward looking concepts!

So are you gonna find a manufacturer for these or what?