MELBOURNE: An Indian student from Swinburne University of Technology (Australia) has designed a vehicle with built-in storage space which will give the people with disabilities an opportunity to run their own businesses from wheelchair.
The vehicle, engineered by final year student of product design Rachit Vora, is a wheelchair driven by a manual lever with built-in storage space, which will allow the user to store and sell products such as magazines and newspapers.
Vora said that his design would also provide a cheaper mode of transport for people with physical disabilities, who often find it hard to gain employment.
"This product will open up more opportunities for Indian people with disabilities so they can better support their families and become involved in the community," he said.
Vora will be graduating with around 150 Indian students at Swinburne's international graduation this week.
He will attend the 'Designing for Children' conference at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in February with Swinburne engineering lecturer Soullis Tavrou to discuss how to better implement design into university and school curriculum.
Source: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/et-cetera/Indian-student-designs-special-wheelchair-for-business-purpose/articleshow/5361889.cms
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Project3 'TRANSWAVE' -Sustainable energy generator
Transwave is a sustainable energy generator using wave energy to generate electricity. The cocept is based on Faraday's law of induction and the design is inspired by Jellyfish.
Saturday, October 3, 2009
Tim Brown urges designers to think big
Tim Brown says the design profession is preoccupied with creating nifty, fashionable objects -- even as pressing questions like clean water access show it has a bigger role to play. He calls for a shift to local, collaborative, participatory "design thinking."
About Tim Brown
Tim Brown is the CEO of the "innovation and design" firm IDEO -- taking an approach to design that digs deeper than the surface.
Source >> TED.com
About Tim Brown
Tim Brown is the CEO of the "innovation and design" firm IDEO -- taking an approach to design that digs deeper than the surface.
Source >> TED.com
Designer Stefan Sagmeister: The power of time off
Every seven years, designer Stefan Sagmeister closes his New York studio for a yearlong sabbatical to rejuvenate and refresh their creative outlook. He explains the often overlooked value of time off and shows the innovative projects inspired by his time in Bali.
About Stefan Sagmeister
Renowned for album covers, posters and his recent book of life lessons, designer Stefan Sagmeister invariably has a slightly different way of looking at things.
Source >> TED.com
About Stefan Sagmeister
Renowned for album covers, posters and his recent book of life lessons, designer Stefan Sagmeister invariably has a slightly different way of looking at things.
Source >> TED.com
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Design Thinking
Tim Brown, CEO and president of IDEO and author of Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation talks about taking design beyond packaging and products and into "design thinking."
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
“16 Inventions That Boost Habitats, Humanity, Health and Happiness” Slideshow | Fast Company
Designer, architect, and author Emily Pilloton is founder of the non-profit Project H Design, where chapters of designers around the world collaborate on products that improve the four H's: habitats, humanity, health and happiness. While working to develop products like the Hippo Roller, a water transportation device, or the Learning Landscape, a low-budget playground for teaching math, Pilloton began collecting examples of similar products that solved social problems. Her book, Design Revolution: 100 Products that Empower People (Metropolis) features 115 solutions that range from high-tech prototypes from industrial design firms to DIY hacks that originated in the developing world. –Alissa Walker
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Why crazy guys tend to be more creative
A new study seems to have established a link between psychosis and creativity.
Szabolcs Keri, a psychiatrist at Semmelweis University in Hungary, focused his research on neuregulin 1, a gene that normally plays a role in a variety of brain processes, including development and strengthening communication between neurons.
Writing about the study in the journal Psychological Science, he has revealed that a variant of this gene is associated with a greater risk of developing mental disorders, such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
Read more @ http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/relationships/man-woman/Why-crazy-guys-tend-to-be-more-creative/articleshow/5067126.cms
Szabolcs Keri, a psychiatrist at Semmelweis University in Hungary, focused his research on neuregulin 1, a gene that normally plays a role in a variety of brain processes, including development and strengthening communication between neurons.
Writing about the study in the journal Psychological Science, he has revealed that a variant of this gene is associated with a greater risk of developing mental disorders, such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
Read more @ http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/relationships/man-woman/Why-crazy-guys-tend-to-be-more-creative/articleshow/5067126.cms
Thursday, September 10, 2009
On Prototyping: The Simplest Solution Never Comes First
When we use a break-through industrial design product – the iPod, for example – we don’t necessarily spend much time thinking about the extensive development process that went into achieving such a simple solution. But the long journey from visionary idea to intuitive product is a trajectory worth contemplating. In the case of Herman Miller’s new Setu chair, designed by Berlin outfit Studio 7.5, the numbers are telling: 18 months of self-financing, 5+ years of development, and 40 fully functional prototypes.
Read more @ http://the99percent.com/articles/5937/on-prototyping-the-simplest-solution-never-comes-first
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Design Globally, Manufacture Locally: A New Paradigm for Sustainability
A new chair concept exemplifies one interesting strategy for green design: Letting locals do the manufacturing.The mission of product design, when you boil everything else away, is to entice people into buying things that they almost certainly don't need. As sustainability becomes a household word, that leaves designers in a tight spot: How can design ever be sustainable, if the discipline is fundamentally about making more stuff?
Read more @ http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/cliff-kuang/design-innovation/design-globally-manufacture-locally-new-paradigm-sustainability
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Cabbage Chair >2009 Finalist >Index Awards.
What began as Tokyo fashion designer Issey Miyake's concern about paper waste has become a chair hand-crafted with organic simplicity -- the seat of a new message of re-invention, human ingenuity, delicate beauty and a meeting of minds between not one, but two designers.
Designed by: Nendo, Tokyo, Japan
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Google Patents World's Simplest Home Page
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