Design Revolution Road Show
Posted on January 25th, 2010 by GD
Emily Pilloton works with Project H Design to create, refine, and publicize useful objects for “planet, people, and profit,” a field that she calls humanitarian design.
She recently demonstrated these items for Stephen Colbert on The Colbert Report:
- Spider boots: These Herman-Munster-like elevator shoes protect human landmine-detectors from shockwaves set off by explosions.
- Adaptive eyecare: The wearer can focus the liquid-filled lenses on these affordable strap-on eyeglasses to achieve the prescription strength that he or she needs.
- Hippo roller: If you fill this 22-gal. water barrel, then set it on its side and roll it to your destination, you will be pushing a 200-lb. load of water as though it weighed only 40 lbs.
Pilloton and others are taking their design show on the road beginning Monday, February 1, in the San Francisco Bay Area. Here’s the itinerary. For more information, see the Design Revolution Road Show site.
Thanks to Nancy Noble, my former professor in the Design and Industry department at San Francisco State University, for the link.
