Titan
A wall-mounted mixer tap explored across three lever geometries.
Where the lever is the design
Sweep solved a utilitarian problem, a dispenser spigot most brands don't bother designing at all. Titan sits in a different tier entirely: a wall-mounted single-lever mixer for a basin, a category full of taps that already work fine and mostly look forgettable. With a mixer tap this compact, there's no tank or spout run to carry a design language, almost the entire visual identity has to live in one part: the lever. The brief was to find a lever geometry confident enough to make the rest of the tap look intentional, not just functional.
Three lever geometries
Option 1 used a rectangular loop, a hand closes around the negative space rather than gripping a surface. Option 2 flattened that down to a simple vertical bar sitting on a round wall plate, the safest, most conventional read. Option 3 went sculptural: a teardrop-shaped paddle with no through-hole at all. All three shared the same compact wall-mounted body and basin mount, only the lever changed, which made it a clean, direct comparison of geometry against geometry.
Why the loop won
The bar and the paddle both read as controls you operate. The loop reads as something you hold. It gives a hand a real target to find without looking, closes around the fingers rather than sitting flush against them, and keeps a strong, legible silhouette from the front, the side and everywhere in between, where a flat bar can disappear edge-on and a paddle only really reads from one angle. That's the difference between a lever that's easy to manufacture and one that's worth manufacturing.
From concept to dimensioned drawing
The loop-handle direction was carried through orthographic front and side views, then resolved into a fully dimensioned technical drawing, the point where a concept stops being a nice render and starts being something a manufacturer can actually quote and tool for.
Off the drawing, into real parts
The dimensioned drawing went straight to 3D-printed parts: the loop handle, both escutcheon plates, the valve stem, the mounting hardware and every washer, printed and laid out to check that what worked on paper actually fits together as real components.
Key Features
- Rectangular loop-handle lever, found and closed around in one motion
- Three lever geometries fully modelled and compared before committing to one
- Resolved into a fully dimensioned front and side technical drawing
- Every component 3D-printed and checked as real, assembled hardware
- Compact wall-mounted body suited to a basin installation
How we work on parts like this
Titan is a single fitting, but it went through the same full process as any of our larger product work: multiple concept directions modelled and compared rather than one idea polished in isolation, a clear editorial reason for the direction we carried forward, resolution into a dimensioned technical drawing, and physical validation with real printed parts before calling it finished.
A wall-mounted tap has almost nowhere to hide a design mistake, it's touched daily, seen from every angle, and judged against products with far bigger budgets. That's exactly the kind of resolution work we do for founders entering a crowded fixture category who need their one part to actually hold its own.
Outcome
Titan is a resolved, prototyped mixer tap design: three lever geometries explored and compared, the loop-handle direction carried through concept sketches into a fully dimensioned technical drawing, and validated with 3D-printed prototype parts, ready to hand to a manufacturer.
What's inside the design
Design
- Rectangular loop-handle lever
- Compact wall-mounted body
- Three geometries explored before committing to one
Engineering
- Internal valve cartridge with washer stack
- Fully dimensioned front and side technical drawing
- Mounting nut and escutcheon plates for basin installation
Process
- Concept sketches through three lever directions
- Orthographic resolution of the chosen geometry
- 3D-printed, hardware-checked prototype parts
Questions About Titan
Titan is a wall-mounted single-lever mixer tap, explored across three distinct lever geometries and resolved into a dimensioned, prototyped design.
Sweep is a utilitarian dispenser spigot built around a rotating collar valve. Titan sits in a different tier entirely: a wall-mounted mixer tap for a basin, where the lever itself carries the design's identity.
Coffer Studios took the concept through three lever geometries, refined the strongest direction with concept sketches, resolved it into a fully dimensioned technical drawing, and validated it with 3D-printed prototype parts.
The rectangular loop handle. It gives a hand something to find and close around without looking, reads as a single bold gesture rather than a small control, and holds its identity from every angle, which neither the flat bar nor the paddle lever managed as convincingly.
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