FUSE Industrial Design
Marwall LunchPod
The LunchPod was developed as a reusable alternative to single-use food containers. The brief combined several requirements: carry soup securely, minimize heat loss over four hours, and feel practical for everyday use.
- Project context
- Consumer product development at FUSE Industrial Design.
- Design challenge
- Bring insulation, handling, food storage, and access into one carryable product.
- Outcome
- A complete design integrating the insulated body, removable shuttle, lid, utensils, and latches.
01 / Development
A more useful lunch container
The architecture brings an insulated stainless steel body together with a removable, collapsible silicone food shuttle. Storage, insulation, handling, and food access had to work as parts of the same product.
02 / Development
Finding the form
Foam models explored proportions, volume, and handling. They provided a physical way to examine how the container would be carried and used as the form developed.
03 / Development
Using analysis to guide insulation
The thermal study began with a CFD model of the liquid and surrounding air to estimate convection behavior. A heat-transfer simulation then applied conduction and convection properties to the surfaces. The liquid started at 185°F, and the simulation evaluated temperature over a four-hour period.
The analysis informed the insulation design and the relationship between the silicone shuttle and the surrounding LunchPod body.
04 / Development
Bringing the parts together
The design combines a double-walled, vacuum-insulated stainless steel body, collapsible silicone shuttle, clear Tritan double lid, custom utensils, and carabiner-style loop latches. The component arrangement brings storage, insulation, and food access into one carryable system.
05 / Development
A product for everyday use
The developed product integrates the insulated body, removable food shuttle, lid, utensils, and latches. The photographs show how those parts support preparing, carrying, and accessing food.