FOSCAT(folding solar catamaran) is a new alternative concept cat sailvessel that consumes no fuel with high energy efficiency. She is a new generation cat-boat which encourages environmental responsibility. In addition, the lightweight folding hulls are easy to handle ashore and require virtually no maintenance. The FOSCAT is one of the first folding cats which can easily be folded on docks and on any sandshore. She can easily reduce the wind profile during docking and well landing the hulls can be easily retracted with folding rudders and mast
Industrial Designer Dr. Hakan Gürsu, has succeeded as an extraordinary illustrator, designer and intellectual internationally. DESIGNNOBIS Design / Innovation firm that he has founded is selected among Turkey’s Top 40 Entrepreneur Firms. He’s been honored in world’s prestigious design competitions by winning over 205 design awards within 14 years and made Turkey rank second in design field. He contributed to several national and international organizations as a speaker on innovation, creative thinking, design and R&D. Ranging from boats, toys and furniture to electrical devices, his environmentally friendly and visionary projects are introducing unusual solutions to common problems. He continues to train design students at METU.
Designnobis gathered as a team during the university. The leadership of Dr. Hakan Gürsu and the participation of his students from different eras and levels created the amateur spirit of Designnobis. Designnobis Ltd. officially founded in the summer of 2006 serves as a research and development company in product design, genuine architectural and visualization services. We present an enormous success in both domestic and international arena since that time. We keep on reaching our targets and further goals with an increasing acceleration. All we know is company’s success comes first. Most of our designs are serious supporters of functional and user friendly design. During the time we got these design concepts a little bit further and began to design functional, user friendly and representative products in terms of emotion. We tried not to make them figurative but evoke something in people’s minds whom they should identify the design with something in their life. We believe that, the success of a design depends on how you can handle the hidden ties between the product and user, like design and emotion. The most of our company’s products depend on this philosophy.For more info: www.designnobis.com