Projecting "thumb" makes all the difference.
Worked for Homo sapiens....
Stainless steel.
2-Pack: $44.
[via Hurricane Vanessa]
Projecting "thumb" makes all the difference.
Worked for Homo sapiens....
Stainless steel.
2-Pack: $44.
[via Hurricane Vanessa]
We don’t often think of congested alleys but in Korea they’re some of the busiest intersections where over 40% of accidents occur. Like a traffic light, the AISA is a 3 or 4 way signal. It’s made of titanium alloy with a round shape to disperse direct forces. Small camera based sensors detect whenever foot, bike, or motor traffic approach and warns cross traffic with flashing LEDS. The color indicates the degree of danger and the flashing rhythm denotes speed. It’s not meant to control the flow of traffic like a stop light but it does give you a sense of what’s coming ahead.
Designer: Jeongseon Park
The all-electric Taurus Concept designed by Erik Lanuza.The Taurus Concept is a compact, urban-targe..(more...)
A.R.T. has launched the first fully-customizable and co-creative modular art collection called ModulA.R.T, with scalable contemporary geometric art modules that can be pieced together in an infinite number of ways. It is designed by artist and architect Donald Rattner and includes 3 lines: Wall A.R.T., Mural A.R.T., and Shelf A.R.T. They just launched their website and you can check out their pop-up shop if you’re in the DUMBO NYC area over the next month.
Wall A.R.T. consist of a series of atomic modular sculptures that can be assembled in many different configurations to create a beautiful wall design.
Mural A.R.T is artist-designed wallpapers featuring various shapes that add a new dimension to the wall when placed behind Wall A.R.T.
Shelf A.R.T is a series of modular artist-designed books to fit in-between your precious leather-bound volumes, or you can put Shelf A.R.T alone in a bookshelf, turning it into a modern piece of art. Choose from colorful designs or order serif and sans-serif letter books to spell out whatever you wish!
I'll never understand why certain fairly major design events don't post their own photo galleries to draw interest for their future events. So it goes with the International Bicycle Design Competition, which was won by Taiwanese designer Hsi Huang for his Shopping Bike, above; it transforms from a bicycle into a shopping cart, providing an on-board storage bin. Even cooler, after Huang submitted his design, the IBDC surprised him by prototyping one in CNC'd aluminum!
Speed Studio Design's got a closer look at Huang's design, which was crowned the winner at the 2010 Taipei Cycle Show (even though the award is considered a "2009" prize). Also be sure to check out their fantastic Flickr gallery showing the other finalists.
CCS student Andrew Kim's Coke bottle redesign is an ambitious take on the iconic bottle, going square in the name of eco-friendliness. The new bottle shape would take up far less space in shipping pallets per bottle, and a push-up in the bottom large enough to accommodate the cap of the bottle beneath it would enable stacking. Said cap is offset for better drinkability.
Another interesting design feature is that underneath the label, the bottle is ribbed so that it can compress like an accordion, taking up even less space when it's time to go into the recycling truck.
As a former structural package designer myself, my first thought was that the strength needed for stackability wouldn't jive with a crushable bottle, but then I realized the bottle could be designed so that it's strong when surrounded on all sides--like when they're being shipped en masse--but collapsible when the bottle is alone, absent the pressure of surrounding bottles. Good stuff, and even more impressive considering Kim is a freshman!
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