Barware

Reworking a familiar wine tool through mechanism, leverage, and form.

The redesigned Rabbit lever corkscrew introduces smoother mechanics and updates its recognizable silhouette.

Focus
Wine-opening tools
Programs
Rabbit corkscrews
Methods
Sketching, CAD, prototypes, presentations
Updated black Rabbit lever corkscrew in use

01 / Original reference

Update an icon without erasing what makes it recognizable.

The existing Rabbit lever corkscrew establishes the brand and mechanical starting point.

Original Rabbit foil cutter and silver lever corkscrew arranged on a white field

02 / Lever development

Integrating the foil cutter into the corkscrew handles.

Each round of development brings the form and mechanism closer together, resolving how the tool looks, moves, and feels in use.

Lever corkscrew development from sketches through CAD, prototypes, and refined renderings

03 / Lever outcome

Making a familiar tool easier to use.

The updated corkscrew simplifies the original design with fewer separate parts while preserving the familiar Rabbit opening action.

Black Rabbit lever corkscrew opening a bottle

04 / Barware explorations

Exploring winged corkscrews across different brand languages.

Sketches, CAD studies, and renderings present the familiar winged mechanism across distinct brand identities through variations in form, proportion, and detail.

Winged corkscrew sketch, marker renderings, CAD development, and Houdini concept rendering arranged as a continuous sequence