Knifes

Graduation project awarded with honors

The project focuses on the research and development of a series of knives in which the metal connector and technological manipulation serve as central and innovative design elements.
This approach enables the creation of customized products, enhances material performance, and expands design possibilities while making efficient use of existing materials.
Metal manipulation allows control over the final aesthetic, highlighting the manufacturing process as an integral part of the design language.
The result is a series of knives with a technological appearance that places the raw material at the center of the design

In this technique, a strong structural connection is created between the knife blade and the handle through industrial pressing of a metal tube.
The tube is pressed around the blade, forming a precise geometric lock—meaning the material’s shape itself creates the physical connection, without the use of adhesives, screws, or additional fasteners.

This solution is technically efficient while remaining purely formal, highlighting the material and simple mechanical logic as part of the design aesthetic.
The knife produced using this manipulation is a chef’s knife (Santoku).

First Technique – Geometric Locking Through Tube Pressing

Second Technique – Creating a Serrated Blade Through Metal Twisting

In this technique, two knives were created by transforming the twisting process—an industrial operation typically used for structural reinforcement—into a formal and functional design method.
The metal undergoes controlled twisting, generating an organic, wave-like form.

After polishing, the inner edges of the twist are revealed and sharpened, forming a natural serrated blade.
This approach produces a knife that is “born” from the process itself, with an aesthetic that suggests movement, fluidity, and material-driven sculpting.

The technique offers a re-interpretation of metal twisting as a process that is not only formal but also functional.
The knives created using this manipulation are a bread knife and a tomato knife

Bread knife

Tomato knife

Third Technique – Three-Dimensional Cutting and Blade Extraction from a Steel Tube

In this technique, a steel tube is used as a single solid piece, from which the blade is cut directly out of the material through a precise three-dimensional cutting process.
The blade emerges from the tube itself, making the handle and blade a single continuous element, without joints or connections.

This approach creates a sense of continuous formal flow, reduces the need for additional components, and highlights technological precision by treating cutting as a generative action rather than merely a subtractive one.

The knife produced using this manipulation is a boning knife (butcher’s knife)

Fourth Technique – Creating a Blade Through Controlled Compression of a Metal Tube

In this technique, a complete metal tube undergoes controlled compression at its front section, compressing the material into a flat profile from which the blade is formed.
The compression creates a dense and strong area, while the rear section of the tube remains intact as a cylindrical handle that is comfortable to hold.

The method emphasizes functionality through a single localized action, conserving material and avoiding additional parts, and transforms a simple process into a complete formal and functional transformation.

The knife produced using this manipulation is a butter knife

Fifth Technique – Twisted Connection Between the Central Spine and the Handle

In this technique, the central spine of the blade undergoes controlled twisting, which functions as a locking mechanism connecting it to a handle made from a different material.

The twist acts as both a physical connection and a formal statement—it remains visible rather than hidden, serving as an independent design element that emphasizes the transition between the two materials.

This approach highlights the strength of twisting as an operation capable of connecting, expressing, and constructing a new material identity.
The knife produced using this manipulation is a vegetable knife

Project Summary

This project seeks to place industrial material and manufacturing operations at the center of the design process.

It does not begin with a sketch on paper, but with a cutting machine, a vise, a heating flame, or a hollow tube.

The project aims to distill a language in which elements that appear rough, industrial, or purely functional are transformed into something refined, precise, and aesthetic