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• Krank it on Up
• Extend to Contend!
• Bamboo Fashioned Bam!
• Always Take The Stairs
• Twinky Lights, Oh So Cute And Moody!

Krank it on Up Posted: 22 Dec 2009 03:13 AM PST So you’re working up high. I mean real high. I mean higher than the sky. OR just high enough so that a ladder can reach, but you’re nervous carrying up giant loads of tools with you walking up those safe yet perilous steps of death. You know what you need? a bucket tied to some string. But what if you’ve got a bigger load than a few pencils and a hammer? What you be needin’ is nothin less than a Krank. Monash University student Alex Matthews has an idea for a bucket-on-string the likes of which you wish you had just for the fun of it! But also it’d work really nice at a job site. Made to improve safety and productivity amongst tradesmen, the Krank allows these workers to lower their reliance on ladders for transporting tools and heavy equipment to places too high for your average cat. Krank can be rapidly secured to your standard scaffolding configuration, connected easily to a power source, and WHAM! You’ve got that box of rocks to the top of the tower like it wasn’t any effort at all! Designer: Alex Matthews

Extend to Contend! Posted: 22 Dec 2009 02:44 AM PST Welcome to the future of furniture design, where to be static is to be left sitting still! Born of a desire to question contemporary furniture design, this project by Aïssa Logerot called “Extensions” addresses the concept of multipurpose use and the desire for durability and quality. Products in this Extensions project are made in a non-fixed state, made to become whatever they need to be as the situation in which they are in changes! Assembly first, right there next to concern for eco-design. Aïssa Logerot took into account packaging, transportation, storage, mounting, dismantling, and of course, mantling. Enjoy the heck out of the many simple designs made undeniably easy to understand and construct. And as stated, these are adjustable to the max, having many notches and thread adjustments on many different combinations of construction for the top of changeability! Designer: Aïssa Logerot Photography: Véronique Huyghe

Bamboo Fashioned Bam! Posted: 22 Dec 2009 12:30 AM PST BamTrike is a three-wheeler that goes with the fancy tag of being a Personal Mobility Vehicle. Besides sporting a really unique form, the most intriguing part of this concept is the usage of Bamboo as a building material. The choice stems from the fact that structurally, bamboo compares to fiberglass, in woven form. The rider of the vehicle gets to sit in a comfy reclined position and the side storage pockets are sufficient to carry your personals. As a recreational vehicle, it really looks neat! BamTrike is a part of an ongoing research by Monash student Alexander Vittouris, so we can expect frequent updates to this project. Here is an excerpt: The parts required for construction of the recumbent chassis have been reduced to encompass the outer framework of the vehicle. By using large molding sections of bamboo fiber, combined with Polylactide resin, the overall assembly complexities are reduced. The philosophy behind this innovative approach is to motivate the consumer in active production of the outcome and enhance the feeling of ownership via positive contribution. The challenge of successive concepts is to find additional ways of making the raw material of bamboo benefit the intention of naturally derived personal mobility. Designer: Alexander Vittouris

Always Take The Stairs Posted: 22 Dec 2009 12:15 AM PST Nothing works better than passive aggressiveness, for instance if you are weight-watching, in-your-face rude nagging always backfires, and you end up letting loose. On the other hand, a subtle, sub-conscious reminder may just do the trick. If I tell you to take the stairs, you may decline, but if you were to see an image of a slim person climbing floors, it would probably encourage you to do the same. This is the concept of the Health NUDGE “Elevator vs. Stairs”. Health NUDGE “Elevator vs. Stairs” is a two-screen set that is to be placed near the elevators. As a person approaches this interactive signpost, a distorted figure of a fat person taking the elevator appears on one display, while the other one shows a fit and slim person taking the stairs. This passive measure is supposed to encourage people to keep healthy. Besides being preachy, the displays can be used for hosting Advertisements when the displays are idle. (It gets preachy only when someone approaches the elevators) Ideal spot for Diet Gurus? Designer: Sunghee Park

Twinky Lights, Oh So Cute And Moody! Posted: 22 Dec 2009 12:00 AM PST I don't know why they are called the Light Recycler, but the job of this cute little stub is to enhance the small dots of power indicators that surround us. Tiny dots of lights are all around us…the power on our CPU, gadgets charger, cordless phone hub, etc. So you stick on the Light Recycler, which sorta enhances the mild dim to a catchy glow. Why? Just for the fun of it, Mood Lights, no apparent reason and please don't look for one either! Designers: Eunsung Park, Hansoon Jeong & Yoonsang Kim

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