By Kim Cook
Don’t you wonder what some of what we use every day?
I sometimes think of when I’m on the stove with my favorite saute bread, and when it’s perfect for its size, weight and performance. Or, if I didn’t, if I had a new tote bag that was overweight, I was struggling with a terrible zipper.
A good design is not just coming out of the light air. From ideas to finished products, it can be a long way. One of the hearts may have created a product idea, but usually there are many other people who have the right to speak to your store.
Initially, all the clever gadgets and lifesting tools spent hours to think about the components that would be very smart or life -threatening.
I talked to those two. Both are winners of multiple design awards. Dan Harden of Whips is a San Francisco -based company designed with all kinds of products, from water filters and home saunas to small tags that you don’t do. I want to lose. Scott Henderson, an industrial designer, a company with the same name in Brooklyn, New York, is designed for brands in kitchens, nursery schools and bathrooms.
“Movie” Spout Cover for Baby and Tots
If you have an infant, you may have a slightly blue rubber whale or a moovie in the bathtub’s spout. Henderson was designed for Skip Hop in 2008.
Moby, made of rubber latex called TPE, is compatible with the spout to prevent a warm spout or touch while taking a bath. The tail may function as a hook, and the bathtub flooding may be located in a whale blowhole. When Henderson asks him about his favorite favorite, Moby is the top of the list.
“I think this was the first product that combined innovation to solve the problem, essential souls and symbolic nature,” he says.
The Pixar contained a spout cover like a mobby that drops whales in Toy Store Returns.
Use a bold name in the kitchen
Your oxodust bread, T-round measurement spoon, Sunbeam Micks Master, and Chantal Kettle also came from Henderson and his team’s imagination.
If the product makes you smile, he says, it will be easier to use. How do you get a blender or spoon to make you smile?
“One of my favorite approaches is to design an object around one big idea, not a small idea of 10, when someone can easily understand how to use the tools. I’m happy, “he says.
“The experience is perceived as you can see. This product makes them smiles when they feel wise.”
New type of face shield for pandemic
In the case of COVID’s supply chain confusion, many designers started 3D printing personal protective equipment (PPE) for hospitals and essential workers.
Henderson and his crew had an idea after blurred ideas at the product development company ZVERSE. How about the face shield attached to the neck, not the upper part of your head? The benefits of food service workers and dentists. Zshield was born. It was also popular for the public by celebrities such as Jennifer Aniston, Brad Pit, and Michel Obama.
The shield was produced in North Carolina, not overseas. “I bypassed a supply chain backlog,” Henderson said.
Creating something useful is a “sublime experience”
Henderson says that the creative breakthrough of the new product is the most satisfying part. “It’s a dopamine explosion.”
And do millions of people start buying it? Harden of WHIPSAW states: It starts with the idea of jumping your heart. After that, sketches, then computer rendering, and models follow. Just as it is a sublime experience, the concept is revived. “
Harden’s design OEUVRE contains FreeSip, a joint product with Water Bottle Maker Owala, part of the Trove brand. The product created the best invention list of time magazines in 2023 and the best list of New York Times in 2024.
Hopoo also cooperated with a fitness company at a smart home gym with fans such as Selena Williams and LeBron James. Instead of bulky iron sets, the tone system is attached to the wall, the digital weight is equipped with electromagnetics and has an interactive screen for virtual training lessons.
Next, there are tile trackers that can be attached to wallets, telephones, bicycles, carry bags, sports equipment, etc. Whipsaw has come up with the Life360 to improve the design and attach it easily, and come up with a fun color to appeal to new technical recruiters and families.
“The design is very fun, but there are issues,” said Harden. “It is difficult to keep the vision during the project, because there are many opportunities to relax, such as confirming that cost, product requirements, and concepts are suitable for brands.
“People believe that designers have a shower and have a” big idea “and snaps. I am more involved than that. “
Reconsider the piano
Harden, a skilled artist and musician, says his design, “AHA!” The moment came while listening to classical music on a long flight. He thought not only how hard -like instruments such as harp, violin, and trumpet look, but also listen. “Each of these instruments seems to greatly enhance the music experience of the listener.”
But then there is a piano. “It’s a large black box held with three thick legs, a lid reflecting a functional retrofit -like sound,” he said. In addition, as pianists are seen in their profile, you overlook many emotions on their faces.
So he began sketching a sophisticated, small, front piano, showing its strings and mechanisms to the audience in an exciting wing -like silhouette.
“By the time I landed a few hours later, it was conceptually solved and I quickly became a Ravenchord piano,” he said.
Where it came from
What would it be if these designers could redesign something next?
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Henderson wants to make the city’s water tower more attractive. The standard silo with legs does nothing for the exterior of the sitting building. He is also suffering from an unsightly orange construction barrier that is bothering the scenery of the city, and believes that they are ripe.
Harden believes that general walking kain can use reconstruction. “Or, I want to design products that provide services to our aging population,” he said.
“Creativity is the most valuable human characteristic, and there is no pursuit of life as much as research, practice, and realized creative expressions.”
New York -based writer Kim Cook is regularly covering design and decoration topics for AP. Follow her on @kimcookhome’s Instagram.
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Initially issued: February 4, 2025 4:01 pm EST
