Could tapping influence our kindness?

http://www.apple.com/iphone/design/#design-video

Tap is soft and gentle.

Press is hard and short.

I am asking myself if the gestures we make so many times during the day could influence our actitude towards objects and then relationships?
I see very often people interacting with their iphones as they would do with babies, touching them with respect, softness and care...

I suppose and hope yes!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vR96bTVzx8M

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Milan Design Week 2011 - You do bag

A working installation by We Do Studio, to produce a stitch less heat pressed bag.
A simple two-dimensional shape through cutting the handle following a line transforms into a three-dimensional essential bag.
At Ventura Lambrate, RCA Intent.

Materials: Kvadrat fabrics and Bemis adhesive technology.

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Igloo stool

the 'igloo' stool by page tan - image © designboom

Knitting and weaving a pipe in PVC, the 'igloo' stool requires no internal structure, the pipe is held by common nylon cable ties.
Strong, yet elastic and soft stool with a strong visual appeal. Designed by singaporean studio Page Tan. 

The igloo stool has won the FDA merit award, designers category at this year's IFFS/AFS singapore furniture fair.

image © designboom

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Waste and taste

From tourdefork, an italian food design laboratory, a product that re-uses kitchen wastes and give taste to our homes, the Orange Peel Hanger. In the italian houses during winter its usual to find orange, mandarin or lemon peels placed on a warm radiator. The oils contained in the skins evaporate and engulf the room with their fragrance. Funny and energetic the contrast between the white of the radiator and the orange of the peel.

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Like peel fruit

A new MH Way product line named "Buccia" by Makio Hasuike. A planar shape turning into a three dimensional bag through a zip fastener. A metaphor of shape-surface and fruit-peel that is revealed by a fluid and magic movement. A powerful concept! 

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It is raining, have fun!

Which of you have never played like this with a closed umbrella when child? 

Dragging the umbrella on the ground because it was too long for you, or you were tired because of the weight of it. Waiting for a bus on a rainy day using the tip of the umbrella as a pen to draw on the sidewalk.

Here below two projects for umbrellas result of creativity and observation, very cool!

Wheel Umbrella
While walking you rely the umbrella on the wheels in order not to feel the weight and dragging through rain puddles, like magic, funny smiles appearing.

Designers: Lin Cheng-Han, Chung Yu-Hsun, Cheng Yu-Ting & Chen Shaw-Chen.

 

Rain Brush Umbrella

A silicon tip like a paint-brush dip into the rain puddles of the sidewalk let you draw water graffiti.

Designer: Liu Hsiang-Ling

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