Magnus Pettersen from Central Saint Martins took first in a brief set by the Design Council that asked students to “create a product, service or communication piece designed to specifically reduce crime”. The ‘BLABR_stand’ acts as both bike rack and meeting point, so that people gathering there also keep an eye on the bikes, thus deterring thieves.
THORPE, A. and GAMMAN, L. (2007) Bikes: Home Safe? Domestic Storage and Other Creative Strategies to deal with Bike Crime, MA Industrial Design (Course Director: Ben Hughes), Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. The project included organising:
THORPE, A. and GAMMAN, L. (2007) Domestic Bliss: Indoor Bike Storage, BA (Hons) Product Design (Course Director: Paul Sayers), Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. The project included organising:
• Project Introduction - 22.01.07
• Briefing - 29.01.07
• Interim Critique - 07.03.07
• Final Critique - 13.03.07
A brief was run with BA (Hons) Product Design that explored three themes:
1. how users interact with objects and their functions;
2. the impact that technology has on the method of interaction; and
3. impact of crime on object storage like bikes.
It asked designers to analyse how people ‘interact with and live with’ their bikes within a domestic environment and the problems and opportunities this creates to develop new experiences.
The BLABR_stand won the D&AD student award 2008.
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