• About Sabi

    About Sabi

    About Sabi

    What is Sabi?

     

     SABI [/sab-i/] noun - A Japanese cultural aesthetic inspired by the notion of life’s transitory and evanescent nature. Deliberate or cultivated simplicity in daily living. Artistic representation that strives toward refined understatement.

     

    Sabi is a new creator of unique health and wellness products - freshly designed pill organizers, household helping devices, and travel accessories. We take our name from an ancient Japanese philosophy that exalts everyday life. Our products are inspired by an ideal: that life’s regular, day-to-day tasks deserve to be elevated. At Sabi, we envision a world in which every person is fully engaged in every moment of their life.

     

    Our mission is to create products that are intuitively and beautifully designed in order to infuse life’s daily rituals with delight. Our creations marry superb functionality, simplicity, and aesthetics to make the most mundane to-dos – from taking your daily vitamins to taking out the trash – more enjoyable. Through its products, Sabi hopes to inspire its users to savor the little moments.

     

    Sabi: elevate. everyday.

  • Our Values

    Our Values

    Sabi - our values

    Our Values

     
    Sabi products are everyday items, simply made better. Our "reinventions" bring design, functionality, and aesthetic to the most basic day-to-day things - from pill accesssories to garbage cans - in order to transform mundane tasks into pleasurable daily rituals. Alter the way we interact with the items we use every day. And ultimately the way we interact with the world around us. Our products are shape-shifters; they change the daily routine and uplift it by transforming the day’s mundane moments into daily moments of joy, fun and inspiration.
     
    elevate.
    elevate. the idea.
    elevate. the aesthetic.
    elevate. the experience.
     
    everyday.
    everyday. solutions.
    everyday. utility.
    everyday. rituals.
  • Our Founder

    Our Founder

    sabi founder

    Our Founder

     

    Assaf Wand - sabi founder & CEO

    Pill dispensers. Water bottles. Garbage cans. Clothes hangers. Why should products that we use every day be cheap, poorly designed, low functioning and just plain ugly? Shouldn’t the things we use daily aspire to the highest standards of utility, design, and aesthetic?

     

    These were the questions I found myself asking in fall 2009, when I moved from Tel Aviv, Israel to Cambridge, MA.

     

    That year, I saw my wife Liron struggle to find an easy-to-use and visually appealing prenatal vitamin case. My mother also expressed a need for a non-embarrassing and better-functioning case for her weekly prescriptions.

     

    I began to realize there was a real need out there, across life stages, for a more attractive and more organized way to keep vitamins and medications at hand.

     

    This led me to search for other everyday objects in need of redesign. From shower caddies to juice decanters, it became clear that the market was thirsty for day-to-day products that are more beautiful, more functional, and more friendly.

     

    Sabi represents my ongoing mission to redesign healthy lifestyle items with superior standards of quality, utility and aesthetic, in order to elevate people’s experience of everyday life.

     

    Sabi products transform mundane daily chores – taking pills, taking out the trash, getting dressed, opening jars – into moments full of delight.

     

    Assaf Wand,
    Founder & CEO

     

    Brands that inspire me:

    Method

    Bang & Olufsen

    OXO

    Dyson

  • Our Designers

    Our Designers

    Our Designers

    Our Designers

     

    Sabi products are designed by San Francisco-based industrial design agency fuseproject.

     

    Founded in 1999 by Swiss-born visionary Yves Béhar, fuseproject is committed to projects that utilize technological innovation and design to improve people’s day-to-day lives, promote sustainable living, and create positive social change.

     

    The fuseproject dream is for all consumers to be aware of the environmental and social impact of materials and packaging, and to buy according to humanitarian, ethical, and environmental loyalties.

     

    fuseproject has designed products and packaging for Jawbone, General Electric, Barnes&Noble, Samsung, Herman Miller, and PUMA.

     

    fuseproject was inspired by Sabi’s vision to elevate the everyday. Yves was enticed by the challenge of re-designing existing run-of-the-mill utilitarian daily-use products with quality, aesthetic, and superior functionality in mind.

  • Sabi Buzz

    Sabi Buzz

     

    Sabi Buzz

     

    Sabi Pill Boxes (and more) by fuseproject
    February 13, 2012

    San Francisco-based designer Yves Behar and his team at fuseproject have partnered with Sabi, a new health and wellness brand to bring high design and functionality to an overlooked market: medication and pill management products. Design-minded folks want to look good while feeling good, after all. Read more...

     

     

     

    A Spoonful of Style Makes the Medicine Go Down: Sabi Brand Name Review
    By: Eunice Park February 2, 2012 

    Baby bumps have been sexy for a while, but baby boomers? Think again. As more of the U.S. enters its golden years, a bevy of brands sees a golden opportunity to court an ignored demographic. According to this recent Co.Design article, “People over 50 account for 67 percent of America’s consumption…only 5 pecent of marketing spending is geared toward them. And if you look within that 5 percent, 92 percent of it is pharmaceuticals and financial products.” Read more...

     

     

    Former Ice.com executive will manage e-commerce for an e-retail startup
    By: Dan Davis February 2, 2012

    Pinny Gniwisch, formerly executive vice president of marketing at online jewelry retailer Ice.com Inc., has accepted the same position at Sabi, a manufacturer and online retailer of such health-related products as medicine organizers and pill crushers. Sabi just began selling online in January. Read more…

     

     

    Yves Behar’s Latest Project Is Just What the Doctor Ordered
    In Unbeige By: Stephanie Murg January 30, 2012

    Sure to boost compliance in double-blinded clinical trials the world over are these streamlined pill keepers from Sabi, a new company that is looking “to transform life’s small tasks into moments of joy” through lifestyle and wellness products designed by Yves Behar and his Fuseproject team. Read more...

     

     

     

    Sabi by Yves Behar
    January 27, 2012

    Designed by the Swiss-born, San Francisco-based designer Yves Béhar and his team at fuseproject, the Sabi products marry superb functionality with simplicity in order to make life’s most basic to-do’s — from taking daily vitamins to taking out the trash — both more engaging and more enjoyable. The company’s first collection is Vitality, a line of accessories for medication and pill management. Future collections — in the household and travel spaces — will be released in the coming months. Read more...

     

     

    Fuseproject and Assaf Wand Launch New Brand Sabi
    January 25, 2012

    San Francisco designer Yves Behar of fuseproject along with entrepreneur Assaf Wand launched a new venture that creates “lifesytle and wellness products designed to transform life’s small tasks into moments of joy.” Sabi, a health and wellness brand, brings high design and functionality to an overlooked market: medication and pill management products. While today a wide range of people focus on living healthier lives, from boomers to women taking prenatal supplements, there are only low quality and lesser designed products available to them. Read more…

     

     

    How Aging is Becoming (Surprise!) Sexy
    By: Michael Hodin January 26, 2012

    What was most remarkable about last week’s Golden Globe Awards in Hollywood – that impossibly trendy and ever-cool mecca of glitz and youth – was the age of so many of its winners. Best director: Martin Scorsese, age 69. Best actress: Meryl Streep, age 62. Best supporting actress: Jessica Lange, age 62. Best screenplay: Woody Allen, age 76. Best supporting actor: Christopher Plummer, age 82. Then there was the lifetime achievement award given to the vital and ever-present Morgan Freeman, age 72. Read more…

     

     

    Easy Does It
    January 24, 2012

    Vitality Line is a new range of products, designed by Yves Béhar, aimed at making medication management products look less sterile and cheap. A new California-based company Sabi recently launched with a series of well-designed health and wellness products aimed at transforming “life’s small tasks into moments of joy”. Read more...

     

     
    The Weekend Guide
    January 26, 2012

    The Vitality Line
    What: 
    Taking pills can make you feel like one. This new collection of cases, organizers, and more ($9-$30) has a streamlined look that is anything but stressful.
    Why: The Grande Carafe smartly combines a water bottle with a compartmented top for storing vitamins.
    Where: Online at sabi.com

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    Designer Pill Containers
    January 24, 2012

    Baby boomers are finally getting their design due in the form of Vitality for Sabi. Vitality is a new line of pill boxes, crushers and carriers from designer Yves Behar of fuseproject. The new line aims to remove the stigma against regimental medicating by giving pill boxes a sleek and modern look. Read more...

     

     

    Design and Health Coming Together
    By: Ian Cunningham January 25, 2012

    There’s no reason your pill bottle can’t be cool.  A new company has reinterpreted that staple of daily health, turning it into a series of sleek, functional and downright sexy looking replacements. As the designers say, they are removing the negative connotations with easier to use forms. Read more...

     

     
    Sabi Launches First Line of Health Products Designed by Yves Behar

    By: Levent Ozler January 21, 2012
    Sabi, a new Palo Alto-based company, launched with a line of lifestyle and wellness products designed to transform life’s small tasks into moments of joy. Designed by Swiss-born, San Francisco-based designer Yves Behar and his team at fuseproject, Sabi products marry superb functionality with simplicity in order to make life’s most basic to do’s-from taking daily vitamins to taking out the trash-both more engaging and more enjoyable. Read more...

     

     

     

    Sabi Vitality Collection
    By: Alec Banks January 20, 2012
    From fuseproject founder Yves Béhar, who is most known for his work on the “XO” laptop for the One Laptop per Child program, comes the Sabi Vitality Collection – a line of medication vessels aimed at bringing beauty and efficiency to an everyday necessity.  Read more...

     

     

     

    Intelligently designed wellness products from fuseproject founder Yves Béhar
    By: Josh Rubin January 19, 2012
    From Yves Béhar of fuseproject, the design mind behind the “XO” laptop for the One Laptop per Child program, Jawbone UP and Jambox, comes Sabi, a line of medication vessels aimed at bringing beauty and efficiency to an everyday necessity. Read more...

     

     

     

    Start-up designs hip health gear for aging Baby Boomers

    By: Reena Jana January 19, 2012
    Canal Street in Manhattan’s Chinatown is known for its peddlers of faux designer handbags and watches, but in the midst of this scene, on the corner of Canal and Broadway, sits a design studio known for its highly original products. Read more...

     

     

     

    Everyday Design: fuseproject & Assaf Wand Launch Sabi – Exclusive Q&A with Yves Behar
    January 19, 2012
    Yves Béhar and entrepreneur Assaf Wand are pleased to announce a new venture called Sabi, a forthcoming line of “lifestyle and welllness products designed to transform life’s small tasks into moments of joy.” The first collection of products captures the essence of this design philosophy: “Vitality” is a line of accessories for medication and pill management. Read more...

     

     

     

    Yves Behar Launches High Design Medication Brand
    By: Piers Fawkes January 19, 2012
    San Francisco based design agency fuseproject has launched a new health and wellness brand called Sabi. The agency run by Yves Behar is aiming to bring “high design and functionality” to what they say is an overlooked market: medication and pill management products. Read more...

     

     

    Vitality by fuseproject for Sabi

    January 19. 2012

    San Francisco designer Yves Behar of fuseproject has designed a range of pill containers for new brand Sabi, launched today. Read more...

     
    5 Innovation Lessons From a Breakthrough Brand Aimed at Aging Americans
    By: Cliff Kuang January 19, 2012

    To create Sabi, a McKinsey-trained former VC paired with all-star designer Yves Behar. Their process offers lessons about finding a good business opportunity–and a monumental change in American life. Read more…

    Pill Organizers Pretty Enough to Come Out of the Cabinet
    By: Tim McKeough January 18, 2012
    Hoping to remedy an everyday annoyance — the management of medications and vitamins — the health and wellness company Sabi has developed a range of products. Read more...