DESIGN NAME: Pigeon
PRIMARY FUNCTION: Kick Scooter
INSPIRATION: Imagine the situation when for example johny lives
in a big city. His house is 20km away from London, but his work is in a middle of the city centre. Everyday he is driving his car to work. Everytime entering the city center he feels irritated because of traffic jams. Maybe there is a way giving him the possibility to have a pigeon in his trunk. So he will be able to enjoy his
trip not just in a highway, but he will be able to start the day with a possitive emotions at the places where car cannot drive.
UNIQUE PROPERTIES / PROJECT DESCRIPTION: I believe you may convert your hurrying into a delightful and pleasant process, and the Pigeon here may be a tool, helping to achieve this goal. This was the reason for me to create a kick scooter.Pigeon may be folded by one-time pushing with a foot, after folding it is compact, of streamlined forms, thus making it comfortable in use. After rejecting the unnecessary details, the general construction of the product became lighter.
OPERATION / FLOW / INTERACTION: -
PROJECT DURATION AND LOCATION: The project started in December 2013 in Vilnius, Lithuania. AT the moment, we have our company based in Switzerland and started the production.
FITS BEST INTO CATEGORY: Vehicle, Mobility and Transportation Design
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PRODUCTION / REALIZATION TECHNOLOGY: Pigeon frame is made from mixed materials aluminium and stainless steel.
We have used wood to create the plate for the foot and handlebar.
SPECIFICATIONS / TECHNICAL PROPERTIES: 987x219 mm.
TAGS: STREAMLINED FORMS, USERFRIENDLY, SIMPLE TO USE, SUSTAINABLE, FRESH
RESEARCH ABSTRACT: I have tried to think about the people and how they are living their lives. For example, If you are living in the city centre, in a small apartment, which is in the fifth floor, so to have a bicycle is really luxurious. It is really hard to carry it every time to your flat, so the Kick scooter would be great option to carry it and to store it compact at your flat.
CHALLENGE: The hardest part of the creation was the beginning when you just have an idea and dream how the kick scooter suppose to look.Even though a large variety of kick scooters exist today and the creation of one more kick scooter was a big challenge, new unforeseen results have been achieved. A lot of kick scooters are manufactured according to one model, which, however, has not been made to perfection as to be a convenient and aesthetically attractive product. Upon consideration from a new aspect the possibilities of a kick scooter, my task was to improve a model scooter eliminating some shortcomings, to brainstorm the whole consumer and servicing system, to arouse a new interest of consumers in a kick scooter as a mode of leisure and lifestyle, and to make it more consumer-friendly and not complicated in use.
ADDED DATE: 2014-12-26 11:34:57
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IMAGE CREDITS: Image #1: Photographer Edgaras Kordiukovas Postproduction Ignas Survila
Image #2: Photographer Edgaras Kordiukovas Postproduction Ignas Survila
Image #3: Photographer Martyna Jovaišaitė Postproduction Ignas Survila
Image #4: Photographer Edgaras Kordiukovas Postproduction Ignas Survila
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