Sicarius is a conceptual branding and product design study inspired by Roman history. Combining themes of violence, history, politics, and grief, the project investigates concepts of ownership and power as they apply to the use of everyday objects.
As my various belongings wear and tear with age and service, I have become interested the power of possession. By touching an object every day, we speed its decay. I wanted to explore this concept of domination by designing products that forced the user to consider the inherently violent nature of use.
To his end, I created wine bottles whose forms referenced the deaths of Roman emperors. The shape of the bottles were designed to match the proportions of the human body, while their opening mechanisms directly reference the murders of Domitian, Didius Julianus, Claudius, and Commodus.
