Prototype presentations I

2A - The Tubepad
- Recycled movie banner
- Modular can be detached and attached elsewhere
- Constructed bike simile during play session
- Eliminates gender issue
- Functionality and style, exists in fixie shops
- Visited “Breakless” a fixie shop on Parc Avenue
- Independent and waterproof circuit
- Use of glow sticks in first prototype

2B – D I Flashy
- Greatly inspired by the strong visual effect of Vadim's glowing ELwires during play session
- Any coat can be modified and glowing ELwires can be sewn on in any desired design.
- Offer online tutorials of how to create such a coat.
- Looked at pre-existing DIY web communities that are flourishing and use that as a model for creating our own for this particular bike visibility night vest.
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Feedback:

- Too DIY, Desmond might not want to actually sew glowing wires onto his favorite Prada coat
- Our design will not necessarily be duplicated if users are encouraged to arrange wires in their own aesthetical way, therefore how can we say we have designed this?
- Perhaps incorporating pockets or slots into the coat that allows the user to change the placement of the wires
- Perhaps use pre existing construction of shirts, ex: hoody, instead of string, putting an ELwire through.
- Desmond would not wear this coat as a halloween costume.
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2C - Fixie clothing/accessories Gear
- Use of reflective materials
- Fixie Aesthetic began around 2005.
- Started by West Indian immigrants in NY.
- Explored accessories
- Incorporating safety aspects in fixie fashion.
- Behavior of inserting cards in sporks used as reflective possibility by adding an independent light source and making the card reflective.
- Simple and striking
- Creating a brand
- Visual communication of product
- Micro economy

1A – Cushion Laptop multitasking support
- Soft approach to object as opposed to hard
- Research: soft and organic looking products
- Easy to assemble
- Tactile relationship with product
- Pillow as support and blends into bed context.
- Modular, can be modified for different uses
- Used as a unit or in pieces
- Can be used as a pillow or toy or whatever imagined
- Engages notions of play and work together.

1B – swivel laptop bedside desk
- Compressed office space similar to the compressed computer being the laptop.
- Swivels, does not rest on actual lap
- Lighting, passage of time represented by a diming of light every 30 min after which the brightness returns. Passive suggestion of not spending all day on computer work.
- Drawer included that can be removed
o Accommodates lefties and righties
- Height can be modified
- Not constricted by the product and allows for movement
- No dedicated purpose, can be appropriated
- Back lighting considered as opposed direct light of the screen.
- Small size for small apartments.

1C – Wood laptop support
- Wood, accessible material
- Desk inspiration
- Ergonomics of most comfortable position combined with effective working
- Simplistic aesthetic approach