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Cafélis is a conceptual coffee grinding machine that blends the nostalgic charm of gramophones with the practicality of modern café equipment. I designed the form, aesthetics, CAD model, materials, and final renders to create an iconic product that stands out visually and functionally.
Cafélis represents crafted coffee culture — warm, artistic, vintage yet modern. The product reflects the brand's personality through brass tones, wood textures, and a gramophone-inspired silhouette. Close-up renders reveal the precision of the rotating handle, grinder cap, mesh, and the drawer knob on the walnut base.
The Cafélis palette draws from heritage coffee culture — warm brass, deep walnut, terracotta, and rich espresso tones. Every hue is grounded in the materials of the product itself: polished chrome, aged wood, and oxidised copper. Click any swatch to copy the hex.
Two final sketches showing the refined form before CAD — front elevation with construction lines, and a clean perspective view. The gramophone horn proportion, dome cap, and drawer base are all established at this stage. Sketching on grid paper grounded the proportions in physical reality before moving to Fusion 360.
Every component of Cafélis labelled and separated — from the Top Nut and Cap Lock down through the Grinder Cap, Rotating Handle, Grinding Blade, Glass Cover, Coffee Bean chamber, Mesh filter, Wooden Base and the bottom Pipe. The exploded view demonstrates the full mechanical logic of the product and how each part assembles.
A second look at the exploded assembly — the gramophone horn separates cleanly from the grinding mechanism, showing both objects as standalone forms. The chrome horn connects via a curved neck to the dome cap, reinforcing the gramophone metaphor while serving a purely functional role as the bean-loading chute.
