Lately there have been lots of really interesting experiments told through recording a process and results on blogs. New dress a day, the Uniform Project, to name a few have shown how to tell an excellent story in its daily existence and over an extended period of time. Here’s another: 2 young designers, one idea a day. What’s really nice about 2 designers, one idea a day is the diversity of their experiments and they’re creativity when using materials on hand to produce some quite quirky and useful things.
For example, this bike basket made from pine cones.
Or this computer-fan-hacked oven… (It’s not quite plugging out, but it is making a good use of heat already there!)
They’ve also made this bike saddle stool thingy:
And this nice, all-consuming toilet mat, made from a surplus of earplugs.
This is both fashion and function- it’s the bike tube belt (it even inflates, kinda)
To see more of their daily ideas, visit Erika Zorzi and Matteo Sangalli’s Tumblr page.
Katherine Hui is currently the Social site editor at Green Thing, a web-based public service in London that inspires people to lead greener lives through creative content.
Before this, she worked as the Development Manager at Social Innovation Camp, an organization that encourages people to use web and mobile-based technology to mobilise social change. She oversaw 300 ideas submission and helped build 20 prototypes – five of which have gone on to get further funding or investment.
Katherine’s came over to the UK form Canada in 2007 for an MSc program at the London School of Economics. Before arriving in London, she managed a small environmental start-up in Vancouver called the Canadian Climate Change Alliance.
Katherine is football mad. She is a loyal supporter of Arsenal FC, plays for Islington Borough Ladies FC and coaches for Gunners in Islington in her spare time. Her second favourite hobby is kite surfing and she can sometimes be found chasing the wind.
