A Packaging Made Of Sand That Crumbles To Reveal What It Holds. The Body flexible seating structure by Kirsi Enkovaara. This flexible seating structure by Finnish designer Kirsi Enkovaara can be rolled and folded into a plethora of configurations to support the body in comfortable or strange positions (+ movie). The Body is Kirsi Enkovaara's graduation project from the Design Products course at London's Royal College of Art and was designed to encourage people to reevaluate how they sit.
The six-metre-long ribbed structure can be transformed into any shape and retains its position so the sitter can perch or lie on it in any way they find comfortable. "From early on we learn what is the right way for sitting in our own culture and have seats that encourage these ways of sitting, but often we can find ourselves sitting in very odd positions in standardised seats," Enkovaara told Dezeen. "This seat provides an opportunity and encouragement to let a person dictate the way of sitting.
"Rice is a renewable and very accessible material," she added. Hankook Ventus V12 Evo Tire. Hankook Tire: The Future of Tyre Design. 6 | This Edible Blob Is A Water Bottle Without The Plastic. One way to stop the ever-growing pile of plastic water bottles in landfills? Make a bottle people can eat. Inspired by techniques from molecular gastronomy, three London-based industrial design students created Ooho, a blob-like water container that they say is easy and cheap to make, strong, hygienic, biodegradable, and edible. The container holds water in a double membrane using "spherification," the technique of shaping liquids into spheres first pioneered in labs in 1946 and more recently popularized by chefs at elBulli in Spain.
It works a little like an egg yolk, which also holds its shape using a thin membrane. “We’re applying an evolved version of spherification to one of the most basic and essential elements of life--water,” says Rodrigo García González, who designed the Ooho with fellow design students Pierre Paslier and Guillaume Couche. A compound made from brown algae and calcium chloride creates a gel around the water.
Why not just drink from the tap? Klemens Torggler's Kinectic Door. Hövding: The Invisible Bicycle Helmet. You may love cycling but I bet you don’t enjoy the helmet that’s required along with it. Yes, safety first and all that, but they’re uncomfortable and let’s not even begin to talk about what it does to your hair. Luckily for us, the Swedish design duo Anna Haupt and Terese Alstin are looking out for us. They created Hövding, an invisible helmet made for cyclists.
Hövding appears to be a funny looking collar around your neck, but what you don’t see is the folded up airbag hiding inside. When the airbag’s sensors are alerted to “abnormal movements,” a helmet-shaped hood deploys to protect your noggin. They even took it a step further in that the collar features changeable shells that you can switch to match your outfits.
Designers Know How to Recognize a Great Package. If you're gonna design a trophy for a packaging-design award, that trophy better be pretty damn cool. The Dieline, the Web's best resource for packaging design, is gear up to create a trophy for its first-ever design award, and they tapped ESTABLISHED, a firm based in NYC, to create eight concepts. They're all solid, and a few are pretty impressive indeed. Above: A brilliant idea to vacuum-pack the winning design in metallic foil. Here: A negative-cast of a trophy--thus riffing on the idea of an award for packaging, rather than products: Another take on the packaging theme, and one of the greenest ideas of all: A flat-pack award, which you take out, assemble, and place in a clear box printed with the award details: The Dieline is leaving it up to readers to decide which concept is best--you can check them all out (and vote) here.
Victor Castanera's Areniscos Tableware Made Out Of Sand. Photo © Victor Castanera If we actually take the opportunity to really look at ourselves and take in everything around us, we will notice that everything that surrounds us is a product of mass production. Clothing, furniture, technology, even our food is a product of production farming and machines. Our industrial process is incredibly fast, high volume and possesses volatile consequences on our society and environment. A Barcelona designer, Victor Castanera, visualizes an alternate production and creation model within the parameters of our natural habitat where he explores how nature can move us to create a sensorial, sustainable and experiential process. The vision inculcates the possibility of growing a small industry that permits the simple creation of a series of products taking advantage and leveraging nature in its simplest forms, without damaging it in the process.
No machines, no contamination, only a small amount of resources are needed to create the product. Sources: Postable table fits through your letterbox by Studio Toer. Eindhoven designers Studio Toer have created a table designed to fit through your letter box (+ movie). The Postable comprises a modular system of sheet-steel components that can be folded and bolted together once unpacked to make tables of various sizes. Studio Toer wanted customers to be able to order it online without having to wait in for the delivery. See all our stories about tables » Here's some more information from Studio Toer: Toer presents Postable, the table that fits in your mailbox.
People furnish their living space. By inquiring and acquiring online, no customer-salesmen interaction is taking place any more. Postable is a stainless steel table design. The 'origami' boat that actually works - folded out of a sheet of plastic (although they do supply floating cushions for when it sinks) By Rob Waugh Published: 11:05 GMT, 21 May 2012 | Updated: 12:04 GMT, 21 May 2012 It's easy to fold a tiny paper origami boat that 'sails' - but a new full-sized foldable plastic boat can sail with a person inside, and folds out from a single flat sheet in just two minutes.
Another model of the £800 'Foldboat' can be folded up and carried in a backpack. The boat is folded from a 8ft by 5ft piece of plastic and can be transformed from a flat sheet to a rowing boat by a single person in two minutes using only three components. The folding boat folds out from back pack size to a fully functioning boat Made from a single sheet of plastic that can be folded over and over again up to 6,000 times, the Foldboat comes in two designs - one that folds into an easy-to-carry parcel and one that unfolds completely flat During a workshop in which they were encouraged to make furniture out of paper, they started making origami boats and realised they could put their idea into action.