The creative process is rarely leisurely and orderly. This was certainly the case when ArmorActive came to G86 at 2:30 in the afternoon needing an entirely new iPad kiosk enclosure for Foot Locker designed and mocked up by the end of the day. This was just the kind of project suited for our diverse team.

Initially Foot Locker wanted only a handful of red acrylic enclosures. The low quantities ruled out plastic injection molds, and the need for immediate production meant a complex machined product wasn't optimal. What the design team decided upon after an urgent meeting was a fabrication process that would allow ArmorActive to deliver a commercial product within just days.

After our design team came together to sketch and model this new product, the "Strata" enclosure was born. The Strata derives its beauty entirely from its novel construction method--layering of sheet acrylic to provide protection and a mounting platform. Foot Locker was so impressed by the solution G86 delivered to ArmorActive that they decided not only to order the original few, but to replace all existing kiosks in their stores with the new iPad enclosure and to roll out the new product nationwide. ArmorActive landed an important deal and we had a lot of frantic fun.

Pre-production prototypes are shown above with final materials and hardware. Below are images of the rollout in New York.