Hasta La Ideas

Mike Turner, formerly a senior industrial designer with JCB, set up his own design studio in 2007. He was recently commissioned by Industrial Vehicle Technology Magazine to design a “‘Wearable’ industrial vehicle for materials handling, light construction and agricultural use.” The result was his Chimaera concept seen above, and done in conjunction with designer Peter Spriggs.

The design of the physical, anime-esque form was one thing; the design of the interface, Turner realized, would be quite another. In his owdn words:

Working with Peter Spriggs, a talented Coventry undergraduate, I realised this was design for the operator in its purest sense – and set out to make a machine interface wholly tailored to the user. The position and size of each control interface needed to be configurable and instantly adjustable in its position and orientation, which was just not feasible with physical components.

Hit the jump to read the rest of the project description.

You can see more of Turner’s stuff on Coroflot, and more of Spriggs’ work as well.

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