BASF SE a imaginé avec le studio de design DING3000 ce E-Velocipede Concept 1865, un concept de vélo électrique qui s’inspire du «Dandy Horse», premier vélo inventé en 1865 par Karl Drais. Une création étonnante et visuellement impressionnante à découvrir en images dans la suite.
German design studio Ding3000 has created a high-tech version of the first pedalled bicycle, introducing electric power and plastics to the 148-year-old invention (+ slideshow).
Ding3000 collaborated with chemical company BASF to create the Concept 1865 prototype bike, combining various plastics into a contemporary interpretation of an early bicycle.
BASF was founded in 1865, the year pedals were added to German inventor Karl Drais’ wooden Dandy Horse velocipede bicycle, so this provided the starting point for the new design.
Pedals attach directly to the centre of the front wheel, which is much larger than the supporting back wheel.
The electric motor is concealed beneath a blue disk on the back wheel, designed to protect it from water, dirt and stone chips.
An angular seat protrudes from the long part of the frame, which connects the handlebars to the rear wheel.
The battery is located in the seat, which can be detached and carried away with a handle so no one can ride off on the bike when its left unattended.
The same graphic pattern used over the seat padding is found on the tyre treads and handlebar grips.
Other details include pedals without bearings and LEDs integrated into the sections of frame located either side of both wheels.
Here’s some more text from the designers:
Concept 1865
Ding3000 designs an E-Velocipede made of high-performance plastics.
Conspicuous with its wheels of different sizes, the velocipede was the first pedal-powered cycle in history. Ding3000 and the chemical company BASF have now rebuilt the 19th-century bike as a modern e-bike. But why?
With the Concept 1865, we are taking a trip back to the year 1865, when BASF was founded. This was also the point in time when Karl Drais’ wooden Dandy Horse was given its first pedals, which launched the bicycle on the road to global success. As a tribute to this era of enthusiasm for technology and invention, Ding3000 and BASF have embarked on an unparalleled thought experiment and asked: How would the first pedal cycle have looked if the pioneers of the bike had had today’s advanced materials to work with?
In cooperation with BASF, Ding3000 has developed the E-Velocipede Concept 1865. It is a ready-to-ride prototype with an electric drive and 24 polymer applications, some of which are highly innovative like the bearingless all-plastic pedals made of Ultrason or the light and puncture-proof tires made of Infinergy.
By implementing this design study Ding3000 obviously does not intend to reinvent the bicycle, let alone the wheel. Under the slogan “Rethinking Materials”, the unusual e-bike is in fact an invitation to customers to join the company in developing new applications and product ideas utilising advanced plastics. It is an invitation to question the status quo and create something new – just as the pioneers of cycling did in their time.
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Product news: these coffee tables with interlocking wooden legs by German studio Ding3000 have been put into production by Danish brand Normann Copenhagen (+ slideshow).
Ding300s‘s design is based on brain-teaser puzzles that join three pieces of wood together as one to form what looks to be an inseparable knot.
“The three legs seem to pierce through each other in an impossible way and our intention is to draw attention to this almost magical detail,” say the designers. “That is also why we have chosen a transparent top, so the table’s key focus point is the joining of the legs”.
The coffee tables are assembled without any screws or tools and the pieces of oak simply slot together to create a single sculptural form, which becomes the base for a glass tabletop. The base is held firm due to specific shapes cut into each individual leg.
The designers first showed the table as a prototype in 2011, along with cutlery based on the same joint, and it’s now part of Normann Copenhagen‘s collection.
The legs come in natural, orange or black, and the top is available in transparent or smoked glass.
We’ve featured a variety of coffee tables, including Glimpt’s Peruvian hand-carved wooden design, Foster + Partners’ base created by stretching a perforated disk of steel and Reinier de Jong’s coffee table for REK which can be expanded by sliding out sections in any direction.
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Based on a Japanese puzzle, the legs of this table by German design studio DING3000 knot together to create support for the blue glass tabletop.
As the legs interlock in the centre, the table can be assembled and dismantled without tools.
The project accompanies the Join cutlery set, which has the same assembly method (see our earlier story).
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These details are from the designer:
JOIN table
The inspiration for the table-top support of JOIN TABLE was an ancient Japanese game.
Three legs can be fitted into each other without any tools by means of the simple but enigmatic principle of the devils knot and merge to one mysterious object.
JOIN table is the big brother to our cutlery JOIN, which is based on the same principle.
Materials: Oak (untreated), colour stained/smoked glass
Size: WxHxD 750 x 400 x 750 mm
JOIN table travels as a part of the “Design Deutschland 2011″ exhibition – curated by the German Design Council – from the FuoriSalone in Milan to the ICFF in New York and finally to the Business of Design Week in Hong Kong.
Tour dates:
– Milan, FuoriSalone, Spazio Carrozzeria, Via Tortona. 12-17 April 2011
– New York, ICFF International Contemporary Furniture Fair, 14-17 May 2011
– Hong Kong, Business of Design Week, 1-3 December 2011
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| Join by DING3000 | New Standard Table by Fredrik Paulsen | 6×3 Burr Puzzle Table by Petar Zaharinov |
Un concept original avec ces couverts en plastique (fourchettes, couteaux et cuillères) dotés d’encoches leur permettant de s’emboîter et de former un puzzle 3D. Produit en différentes couleurs pour Konstantin Slawinski. L’accessoire devient alors un objet de décoration.
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This plastic cutlery that clips together to form little sculptures at the dinner table is by German design studio ding3000.
Called Join, the pieces have little sections cut out in the middle, which allow them to slot into each other.
The cutlery comes in a variety of colours.
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Here’s a bit of text from the designers:
JOIN by DING3000
Cutlery turns into cover. JOIN is more than simply knife, fork or spoon. It is a decoration for the table. The magic joining mechanism fascinates everybody. But not everybody will manage at once to transform the little sculpture into cutlery. A little skill and a good eye is necessary.
But do not worry – up to now nobody starved when unravelling the magic knot. Many times a meal grew cold because the cutlery itself, made of long life high-tech plastic material, was simply too fascinating. You should book JOIN a place at your table.
The cutlery was developed in co-operation with BASF. Awarded with the “design plus award” and the “interior innovation award” of the imm cologne
Design: DING3000, Hanover, Germany
Year of Design: 2010
Country of Origin: Germany
Material: Ultramid ®
Colours: white, black, purple, pink, green, light blue, dark blue, yellow
Length: 205 mm
Weight: 32 g
Producer: Konstantin Slawinski housewarming objects
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| Zlin cutlery by Future Systems | Found by Oscar Diaz | Urushi series by Aldo Bakker |
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