NEBO — Outdoor Swing Design
Industrial design for outdoor and urban furniture exploring geometry, movement and visual perception.
context
NEBO is an outdoor swing design project developed by rojomandarina, conceived as a contemporary furniture piece for gardens, terraces and public or private spaces.
The project reinterprets an everyday object from a new perspective, exploring how geometry and movement can transform its perception and its relationship with the surrounding environment.
Beyond its function as a swing seat, NEBO is designed as an element capable of bringing identity to the spaces it inhabits, combining functionality, construction simplicity and a distinctive formal expression.
Client: Self-initiated project / Research
Year: 2019
Industrial design · Product design · Technical development · Outdoor furniture · Product identity · Branding
Sector: furniture / habitat / urban furniture / contract
challenge
The challenge was to reinterpret the conventional outdoor swing, developing a piece with a distinctive formal identity that combined comfort, structural strength and manufacturing feasibility.
We sought a solution that could integrate into different settings, both public and private, using geometry and movement to enrich the user experience.
The design had to balance construction simplicity, functionality and visual expression, creating an adaptable product conceived for future serial production.
solution
NEBO is built around an aluminium structure combining rectangular profiles and circular tubes to create a light, open and recognisable geometry.
Its configuration creates shifting perspectives that transform the perception of the swing depending on the viewing point. In elevation, the structure draws a form close to the letter “n”, while the seat and its movement complete a dynamic visual composition.
The seat was developed around ergonomics, comfort and simplicity, integrated into a structure that makes its construction visible. This relationship between form and technique allows the structural solution itself to define the product language.
The project allows several units to be combined and was developed with technical feasibility and future serial production in mind.
As part of the process, rojomandarina also created the NEBO name and visual identity. The logo draws on the geometry of the object, transforming the letter “o” into a representation of the moving seat. The visual identity therefore emerges directly from the product design and remains coherent with its formal concept.
result
NEBO is an outdoor furniture proposal that combines functionality, construction simplicity and visual expression in a piece with a recognisable geometry.
Its design supports different configurations and applications, from private gardens and terraces to collective and urban spaces. The open structure and movement of the seat create a changing perception of the whole, turning an everyday object into an experience of use and observation.
In 2019, NEBO received the Novum Design Award Bronze in the furniture category, an international award recognising a design based on formal simplicity, dynamism and the different visual perceptions generated by its geometry.
KEY PROJECT FEATURES
Industrial design for outdoor furniture.
Structural geometry generating different visual perspectives.
Aluminium structure combining rectangular profiles and circular tubes.
Seat design focused on ergonomics and swinging comfort.
Multiple units can be combined.
Technical development for serial production.
Naming and visual identity linked to the product design.
Novum Design Award Bronze 2019, furniture category.
