Alastair Bunster
Product Design
GLUEY
The glue gun revisited


The Gluey is the first 100% in-house designed product to come out of Bosch Power Tools. As a part of the design team comprised of product designers and engineers, we applied design thinking to rethink the glue gun. The Gluey is a user-friendly glue pen built for arts and crafts. Because of its user-friendly DNA and its simple design, the Gluey was awarded a 2018 Reddot design award.
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Bosch Power Tools was founded over 200 years ago. The international company is known for the invention of the spark plug, fuel injection systems, ABS brakes and many more revolutionary products. There is virtually no automobile on earth that does not contain a Bosch part under its hood. They have evolved into a world-wide engineering powerhouse. In-house design is, however, a new venture within the company. Only recently has Bosch begun to see the full potential for innovation by expanding their staff to include more designers. Because design thinking can be applied methodically in almost any environment, the presence of designers has begun to prove worthwhile as overall production has increased.
