Manta 95R has been designed as final year student project, it is a small Personal Water Craft (PWC) to attract younger customers into PWC market. During his extensive research, this designer found out the main reason why young people are not that into jet skis or water craft, it is due to dramatically expensive cost in order to own one. The first jet ski was introduced in 1974, it was a small comparatively low-powered concept that attracted many buyers.
Subsequent years and an on-going race to develop higher performance machines, has led to a market place dominated by high BHP expensive products and has left a gap in the market for entry level products to attract new consumers to the sport. The concept has challenged these current trends, addressing 3 main issues: high initial investment, transport limitations and soaring fueling costs. Manta 95R features smaller hull design and removable lithium ion batteries in order to lightening the craft when lifting, so it can fit into an everyday car.
Luke Leighton, the industrial designer has envisioned the craft retailing in the region of £3,500. Together with high volume manufacturing and the cost of battery technology declining, Manta 95R concept could become a genuine, profitable solution for the future.
Designer : Luke Leighton
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PanHandler concept removes the part when you have to move your cooked food from pan to plates. Scott Young, an industrial designer, got the inspiration when he was cooking Mac n’ Cheese. He was too lazy to wash a bowl out of dirty dishes so he decided to eat his Mac n Cheese out of the pan.
A great concept for lazy people, PanHandler eliminates the part where you have to use a bowl or plate after cooking. The pan doubles as bowl or plate, less things to clean up.
Designer : Scott Young
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Aroma printer prints and captures the smell on your food on a postcard, can you believe that? Well, you probably won’t, it’s only a concept though, but if this device were available, could you imagine that you can share exotic foods, the look and smell, with friends or families while you traveling? A Chinese industrial designer has developed unique concept device to capture image and aroma of a meal on a postcard by using a camera, printer and smell extractor. This concept is part of Sony design competition.
For the love of food and travel, Li Jingxuan was inspired by unique and delicious local food when he travels around. Utilizing an aroma sensor at the top of this device, it analyzes the aroma coming out from the food and simulates it using aroma inks which then stored inside the machine. Once it achieves the similar formula, it prints onto the surface of the postcard. Based on The China Daily, Aroma printer has won “most fun” award in Sony Student Design Workshop 2012, we can see the reasons for that.
Designers : Li Jingxuan via [Wired]
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eSSAGe Massage Suit is a conceptual design of an industrial design student at Art Institute of Philadelphia. It’s been designed as part of class project to design a high tech, high touch product design. eSSAGE, a wireless massage suit unit with Wi-Fi capabilities and remote control so that the person wearing it can receive a massage from anyone in the world, or just set it to run an automated massage pattern.
Wi-Fi signals from across the world can be transmitted by whomever is at the controls to give a soothing massage. Tiny micro controllers then translate these signals into pure comfort from anywhere in the world with internet access. Using our patent pending EAP massage pads, eSSAGE massage suit is able to deliver a precise and accurate massage as if they hands were right there on your skin.
Designer : Andre Cofield
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The Austrian design studio motion code: blue has released its latest design concept SERION E60 Yacht which was generated by Benjamin Julian Toth, a student of the University of applied sciences FH Joanneum for Industrial Design, Graz Austria as a diploma thesis. The topic was to design a reinterpretation of long range passage maker yachts for the next generation of yacht owners. Mc.b acted as cooperation partner and sponsor for this project.
The main goal of SERION E60 yacht is to offer you a visualization of our future motor yachts within 60 ft by combining megatrends, future markets and consumer behaviors. Aside from those aspects, this yacht also focuses on unconventional functions and innovative features within its class.
Designer : Motion Code Blue
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After releasing top 25 finalists, now Electrolux Design Lab 2011 Award has chosen eight young industrial designers to present their concept to a jury of expert designers at Business Design Center in London, 7th September 2011. Each of industrial designer students was challenged to design intelligent mobility within home appliances. Henrik Otto as SVP of Global Design at Electrolux said that those 8 finalists had shown innovative and creative thinking to make it this far in the 2011 Electrolux Design Lab Challenge.
The award prize for the first winner is 5,000 Euros, the second prize is 3,000 Euros, and 2,000 Euros for the third winner. But the best prize is not the money, it’s the six-month paid internship at an Electrolux global design center. The experience is going to be priceless.
Here are the 8 finalists in random order:
1. Portable Spot Cleaner by Adrian Mankovecky (Academy of Fine Arts and Design Bratislava – Slovakia)
Who doesn’t like clean clothes especially when there’s no effort involved to get them. This device is one of essential tools you have to carry when you travel a lot. The negative ions and steam will refresh your clothes and remove stains. Powered by a sugar crystal battery, you can choose suitable cleaning program from its interface.
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Float is now available within your means to take pleasure in a day away from shore. It is developed for students and the young professionals. It is designed by Jeffrey Greger with his partner, an industrial designer student Timo Bücker, when they were studying overseas at Hochschule Darmstadt, Germany. The love of students to spend time at the lake inspired the creation of this boat. It is available in an affordable price and can be compactly placed in apartment’s garage. It is easy to set up and sustainable to construct and control more than everything it brings out a beach party experience. This catamaran has a huge mesh seating region that contentedly fits 4 people. The “hammock” feel has been created to replicate the feel of resting on the sand. Steering is regulated by a gyroscopic handheld controller and the e-ink display shows the battery status. It is light weight, uses fewer materials for manufacture and also makes use of solar power.
Designers : Jeffrey Greger and Timo Bücker
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What if there was a way to embed data directly in our food? Edible RFID tag technology is evolving and already in use for medical purposes. We believe that our future technology will enable us to read food information in more visual way. “Nutrismart” is a German industrial designer project in order to trace each product with RFID. This way, shopping at a supermarket will be automated; our home refrigerator will be able to warn us as soon as certain product goes bad.
Designer : Hannes Harms
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Hugo Busbridge is an industrial designer whose primary goal is to bring inspiration and design skills to drive originality in design forwards, motivating students to think about products ahead of the physical outcome. With a zeal to pursuer his carrier as a teacher of design, Hugo Busbridge has designed a number of creative products. His latest is the Flux snow melting device. This brilliant snow melting device features a blue rubber drinking spout as well as yellow grip sections. The end pack screws firmly into place in order to add needed function for the bottle, for either snow melting or water filtration. The deep-section TPU over-molded grip has been applied to allow cold handed operation. The idea is to use bright colors for the device to contrast natural surroundings. Its aesthetics is quite appealing. The snow melting device can be mounted on rucksack attachment.
Designer : Hugo Busbridge
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We would have seen an assortment of furniture sets designed to fit contemporary living space. The only problem with such furniture is the amount of space they take and shifting the furniture becomes a big headache at times. Keeping this in mind, many designers now are coming up with innovative furniture sets quite easy to handle. Among them is the new Scum Chair by Hannes Harms, a based German industrial design student. This assemble-it-yourself furniture is simply beautiful, making use of cardboard cutouts as well as expanding foam. Exploring the thought of utility, this piece of furniture contrasts the chaotic form support together with the straight lined cardboard. With an easy to do foldable structure, the Scum Chair is inevitably one-of-a-kind piece. You can take it anywhere, unfold the chair, seal it with expanding foam and have a comfortable seat.
Designer : Hannes Harms
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It is the start of the annual global competition conducted by Electrolux, supporting the emerging talents concerning home appliances design. Encouraging industrial design students as well as fresh graduates submit their works to avail a six-moth paid internship and prize money, Electrolux Design Lab conducts this competition giving a chance for contestants this year to present solutions pertaining to the ‘intelligent mobility’ theme. While May 1, 2011 being the last date for submission, it is expected that 25 semi-finalists would be announced this June, after their participation in a live event and presenting their cutting-edge concept. This company encourages young and creative minds all over the world to present their contribution to the prospect of industrial design and thus create new epoch home appliances. The overall winner of this contest will receive €5,000 together with an invitation to work in partnership with the company throughout his/her 6 month paid internship, while the runner ups will receive €3,000 and €2,000 respectively.
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A good product designer focuses on designing unique and innovative products. A great product designer focuses on designing innovative breakthrough products that resonate with consumers emotionally. Predictable Magic will introduce you to Psycho-Aesthetics concept that teaches you how to create systematically deep emotional connections between consumers and brands. Everyone can learn from this book, design students to design professionals. Predictable Magic is very easy to comprehend and provides you with the knowledge you need in order to become a better industrial designer and a business owner. Just like the book’s slogan: “Unleash the Power of Design Strategy to Transform Your Business”. For limited time, Kindle owners can download Predictable Magic digital copy for free from Jan 11-15, 2011.
Author : Deepa Prahalad and Ravi Sawhney [Get it from Amazon]
Going green is one of the most concerned issues in today’s world and industrial designer Julien Bergignat envisioned the students as a distinguished part of saving the environment through his innovative combination of Green Your Campus plus Stella concept. A survey showed 48% of the students though that “Trashes & Recycling” was the most critical point we had to improve on the campus, against 29% for “Energy Saving” and 23% for “Green Transportation”.
With a view to address that vital 48% of Trashes and Recycling problem, Green Your Campus, an interactive software to integrate virtual world with reality and Stella, the monitor of the student’s activity, has been designed. The Green Your Campus software features a simple and quick interface where students can do different ecological movements through which their profile will get rich. They can distinguish each other with different avatars and several factors are considered to measure their performance such as consuming energy through the computer, number of printing done by the student and spent time on the site. The second phase, Stella, works as a bridge between virtual world and tangible interpretation. This fiber optic pixelglass made frame can be commonly used in all campuses to specify each student as a tangible performance measuring board. The board features LED lights in blue and red color, representing good actions and bad actions of the students respectively.
Designer : Julien Bergignat
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This is the fourth and the last part of DongSeo University 12th Graduation Exhibition of the talented students who major in Industrial Design of the Department of Design. This part is focus on Oceanic design.
1. Rescue Ball by Inyoung Kim, Sohyun Yoon, and Kyeonghan Jeong
Existing life saving tubes are difficult to throw far away due to its structure. Rescue Ball has been designed to carry this life saving tube inside where users can easily throw it away more accurately. Upon an emergency, if one pulls the ring of the ball, the tube folded inside will turn into a form of lifesaving tube swelling up in a method of CO2 expansion.
2. Swallow Yacht by Moah Seo, Yiseul Son, Yengju Song, Jungeun Lee, Boeun Joo, Boyeong Heo
This yacht takes advantage of the wind to sail. These designers propose speed and refined dingy yacht design by expressing the form reminding of swallow tail.
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This is the third part of DongSeo University 12th Graduation Exhibition of the talented students who major in Industrial Design of the Department of Design. This part is focus on public design.
1. Donation Booth by Sangyong Kang
This booth design provides an easy access for people to give their donation
2. U-Pad by Sungkuk Park
A multi-pad for people who cannot communicate with each other. This device is a two way communication device for blind people and hearing impaired people. The blind people use braille because they can’t see, while the hearing impaired people communicate by writing since they can’t hear but they can read.
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