Hasta La Ideas

Over the next months we will be highlighting award-winning projects and ideas from this year’s Core77 Design Awards! For full details on the project, jury commenting and more information about the awards program, go to Core77DesignAwards.com

Designer: RKS Design Team
Location: Thousand Oaks, California, USA
Category: Never Saw the Light of Day
Award: Winner

LaundryPOD

The LaundryPOD provides eco-conscious innovation to save energy, water and answer the need for a quick, easy, and environmental friendly way to wash small loads. It is a portable, hand-powered laundry machine to clean wash and spin dry laundry, providing a solution for developed as well as emerging markets.

While re-engineering and re-designing a salad spinner as part of our new design of Zyliss kitchen products, we learned resourceful women were buying salad spinners to wash their delicates. This sparked the idea that the salad spinner technology we innovated could be used to create a portable, hand-powered laundry machine that would be far more appropriate for the task. Designers instantly saw the potential and many could instantly relate to laundry challenges that a small, portable, convenient and inexpensive solution might deliver.
The design team was very excited to work on something unique and on a project that clearly held potential to help kindred spirits – college students, apartment/studio dwellers. The team was also excited that the endeavor had potential to save considerable water and energy associated with washing, as well as the inconveniences associated with laundry in the developed world.

“Great ideas sometimes materialize and sometimes they don’t. We have to live for the process and creative expression of our ideas.”
–Ravi Sawhney, CEO

Read on for full details on the project and jury comments.

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