Gadgetory

good craftsmanship means well finished refined it's almost like a different language people react to cross and ship in in an emotional way because it does it's stir something within them you feel something you feel an emotion when you can you can sense the human in it it all depends on er the materials you use the people you work with and a lot of the times the clients as well we've taken the Lexus IS and converted it into a one-to-one Harwood model form of a real car through hand craftsmanship turning mundane material to a beautiful sculpture cross and ship can be something I'm sure yes but it can also be something very humbled that is just made in a beautiful way can you see like how this these lines it'd be nice to actually have make the grain follow this we've got three phases to work with obviously if it was just a white sheet it'll just be white throughout and you wouldn't have these three tones playing together what I kind of envision is that once you've walking around the model or you kind of get this feel that I guess a feel of movement depending on the angle that you're looking at the car it's a play with the material and to offer different gradients and grain is what it's all about to be able to cut all these sheets within a matter of weeks as opposed to probably a couple of years is revolutionary we're able to take the CAD drawing that's used in production of the real car slice it up and produce a carbon copy in cardboard this job for Lexus would never happen if it wasn't for technology from CAD work to laser cutting and then eventually the traditional approach which is putting it all together because there's no technology that can yet put things together the way we do as humans we've never heard of this thing being done before we've heard of you know scaled versions of this possibly but nothing to this scale where someone could actually end to the car and move it backwards and forwards it's I think it's something special that we've done here we've managed to explore such a flat 2d material and we yet managed to explore such complex design lines I think we're all quite impressed with it to be honest with the results I mean the wheels the seats I think it's a very very cool job I think Lexus statement creating amazing is what we have created when people come past they take a double take and think hang on a second is that a digital piece of work in the real world it's something where you see where there's a crossover between animation and reality and I think that surprise is what's so special about the project what you can see here is Kabul vacuum cleaners that are designed in my final year at university all came about from my year in placement of VAX the brief was to design a vacuum cleaner out of a material that is an injection molded plastic that doesn't rely on tooling that can be made anywhere at low cost this came about from looking at how cardboard is being perceived in the design world people are using it for furniture for lighting for structure people were seeing that it wasn't just a packaging material and that then kind of sparked what could we do with it and how can we make something that would never be made out of cardboard what the the aspects that we can change to make this a very environmental project VAX have taken on this project and a 100% behind it the idea is that all of the workings and all of the theory behind the vacuum cleaner is exactly the same as a normal vacuum cleaner which is taken outer shell and having some fun with it and making it out of something that people can interact with the the cardboard itself is a specialized cardboard using a non-toxic coating which allows it to be flame-retardant and waterproof so the cardboard itself should withstand all weather situations it's fully recyclable if it does get damaged it can go into your green bag outside and be collected by the bitumen and you can just replace the panel as as and when it's called Eevee eco vac and it just gives it a little bit of a personality a bit of a character behind it so it's not just a product code name the Kabul vacuum cleaner is designed for young families quite stylish trendy people the kind of wanting something a little bit different bit of a status symbol the idea behind it is it's low cost it's maintained by anyone you can personalize that you can have fun with it takes the idea of your child putting the drawer in on the fridge they can personalize the vacuum cleaner and it can be like a part of the family all of my friends from university were at the start just thinking you've designed vacuum cleaners for a year back what you're playing about just do a normal project so it it took a while for people to start to understand but with all that the press coverage that it's given and in fact taking it on board and lots of companies kind of wanting to know more about the product the credibility is has brought my friends around to my way of thinking about it it's getting a lot of worldwide coverage and I was in China a couple of weeks ago and saw it in a magazine on the bullet train which you never expect to kind of see what's next where could we take this did we develop this idea or do we move on to something else do we take cardboard and try and put it into some of our mainstream products and at the moment we're just we're playing around with so many bits and pieces we just need to kind of look and think about cardboard especially in product design but also just watch this space for VAX with vacuum cleaners the we're not going to be doing things so conventional you you it has always excited me to take negligible materials and then turn in something completely different something useful bicycle it's my sort of hobby that's what I do in my free time it's in my soul one of the time that I had to buy some parts I went to the bicycle shop and then they were talking and then suddenly I heard about a guy to build a canoe out of cardboard I went home and then it's all disturbed me this canoe made of cardboard was sitting in the back of my head and couldn't let go and suddenly just strike my mind why not to make a bicycle out of cardboard soon after I talked to three engineers which I really highly appreciate and they said it's impossible there's no way it can be done while I was eating with my wife one day she noticed that I'm a little bit disturbed and then she asked me what's bugging you I told her all the thing about the cupboard can you and add all the engineers I went to and all the things that they said about it's impossible and then she looked at me and gave me that look and then she said I know you if you're not gonna try it then you're gonna drive yourself crazy then you're gonna drive me crazy then you're gonna drive the entire family crazy so just go ahead and try it very soon I realized that there's no actually any know how not to work with the cardboard beside making packages out of it so I started to explore it and then I figure out a lot of things out of it basically the idea is like a Japanese origami and you fold it once then it doesn't come twice the string it's almost three times the strength so that's I took it from there and basically did the same thing with cardboard my first operational prototype it looks like a hybrid between packaging box and sort of bicycles so it was a package on wheels pretty much then I realized it had to look like a real bicycles how to take this cargo box and turn it into ordinary bicycle and so that's where the real challenges started I did a lot of things in my life working with robots which stands electromechanical machine and I basically took everything I knew and focus it to work with that material to accomplish what I wanted to do wheel structures frame design and strength transmission parts cardboard seat and then things started to click together you my name is Brennan Macaluso I'm an industrial designer and I lived in Houston Texas graduate of the University of Houston decimal design program I picked Harper because Harvard was a very extreme example I said if I can do at a cardboard imagine what we can do that so it was the cardboard thing wasn't about just being recyclable there's actually kind of more making the corn on the extreme example look man a cardboard it works Wow welcome we have to how do we build off this idea why do we have so much stuff we need this much stuff and so my idea was maybe I just rip a compare down to its bare working bones and I realized all I really need to have a running computer was a hard drive the motherboard the processor and some memory and a power supply I have a running computer so I took a running computer and I actually screwed it to a piece of plywood nail it up on the wall so the recompute everything there are no hard screw fasteners or rivets or anything that holds the other everything all the parts electronic components are friction fit the case Harvin is slide together and the actual case is surrounded by the base cardboard that has no tools you know they let me just have it you can go in there and you have to take it out to recyclers get out well the biggest problems with recycling computers was the dismantling of the computers and the separation of the case from the actual electronic components and the reason that's not done so much because it's a lot of work it's really mean to take it apart unscrew it on riveted whatever the wires became a picture especially for manufactured in a factory because he's recycling centers happily whatever you gotta know and of course a lot of things are being sent over to Africa in China in other parts of Southeast Asia and the dismantling there and it's if that's a whole other issue in few weeks right now but to me the car boy wasn't the old material it was just materials applications it's a piece of the ingredient the recipe but it's not everything there's there's there's more to it ideally I why she want to chase differ idea down which I won't get into right now the cardboard was kind of like wow that would be pretty extreme big man so I did what is recomputed precompute was a design for a sustainable desktop computer that came out of some research addressing sustainability in design and the end products in this case happen to be computer retail outlets regularly vent box goods direct the public that are very difficult to carry move it is a compact self-assembly carriage system for boxes up to 20 kilos made entirely of cardboard it's a cheap simple stylish solution which enables the user to carry virtually any size or shape of box with ease assembly and fitting will take retail staff under a minute the handles are vented flat and assembled in store then the components are stuck on the box in whatever position the user feels comfortable with it has excellent stability due to the wide track of the wheels and the natural cushioning quality of cardboard protect the load and absorb vibrations making it very quiet even on cobbled roads all the parts use a special report bulk contact adhesive which dissolves in water when move it is recycled and the adhesives unique qualities mean that the product can be peeled off the box without damaging it move it offers a practical solution which provides for the users needs enabling them to make light work of the journey home then recycle or reuse the product as they see fit the first prototype was made entirely from waste materials and can be seen here on its 10-mile journey across London carrying a new microwave oven move it will not only make an immediate difference in providing a more ecologically sound alternative to transporting boxes in vans cars and taxis but should help to create a shift toward a healthier greener and more responsible attitude