The design world is helping facing the Coronavirus outbreak, an emergency that nowadays is changing our habits and the way we live. Here a selection of 10 products that redefine actions, change spaces to create new ones, revisit the way we relate to other humans: they are separators, antibacterial products, tools to not directly touch surfaces and to help us maintain social distance.
10 products to face the Coronavirus outbreak
Separators, antibacterial products, tools to avoid touching surfaces: how the design world is helping facing the Coronavirus outbreak
Foto © Bompas & Parr
Foto © Bompas & Parr
Photo courtesy of Fuseproject
Photo courtesy of Fuseproject
Products and designers: Caimi Lab, Arianna; Michele De Lucchi e Sezgin Aksu, Battista; Sezgin Aksu, Sepà Rolls
Caimi Lab, Arianna.. Courtesy of Caimi
Michele De Lucchi and Sezgin Aksu, Battista. Courtesy of Caimi
Neo collection. Courtesy of PLH®
Neo collection. Courtesy of PLH
Credits Creator
Credits Creator
Courtesy of Matteo Zallio
Courtesy of Matteo Zallio
Materials & techniques: Rattan bending, weaving. Model & styling. Florentien Pletinckx. Photography Karen Eloot & Pieter Vanoverberghe
Materials & techniques: Rattan bending, weaving. Model & styling. Florentien Pletinckx. Photography Karen Eloot & Pieter Vanoverberghe
A project produced and distributed by FusinaLab, Courtesy of Matteo Cibic Studio
A project produced and distributed by FusinaLab. Courtesy of Matteo Cibic Studio
Courtesy of DVO S.p.A. Mobili e forniture di design per l'ufficio
Courtesy of DVO S.P.A. Mobili e forniture di design per l'ufficio
Picture: Igea Box, rendering
Picture: Igea Insula, rendering
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- Francesca Grillo
- 12 May 2020
Creator Transfer Chamber guarantees safe food through an engineering system that makes hamburgers without human contact and delivers the order directly to the customer thanks to a pressurized chamber. The device does not let outside air in and is also open source, available to everyone.
Handy, Matteo Zallio’s multitool, allows people to interface with objects without touching them with hands and is also designed to be shared with the community: a product that can be produced with 3D printing, laser cutting or even at home in a do-it-yourself way.
There are also dividers for public spaces, like the screen designed by Michele De Lucchi and Sezgin Aksu, or the customizable perspex panels by Matteo Cibic Studio, conceived for a return to sociality. Here Comes The Sun is the picnic blanket by designer Paul Cocksedge that assures the distance of 2 meters; Well-distance-being encourages to keep it with a wearable rattan structure.
We add to the list the project developed by digital agency AKQA inside of the world's bestelling video game Minecraft, that for the health emergency becomes a lockdown simulator – Blockdown Simulator – to explain to children the importance of quarantine and social distance. The famous video game does it by recreating a zombie epidemic in a village where the user has to control its spread.
And more: Fitbit, a brand dedicated to health and fitness solutions, which was recently acquired by Google, conveived a play to convert its wearable devices into Coronavirus trackers, monitoring symptoms and tracking contacts.
The competition launched by the London-based studio aims to design a method to sanitise hands that takes into account practical, aesthetic, social and experiential aspects and, together, raise funds for the British Red Cross. Full article here
The competition launched by the London-based studio aims to design a method to sanitise hands that takes into account practical, aesthetic, social and experiential aspects and, together, raise funds for the British Red Cross. Full article here
Forme is a tall iPhone-shaped piece of reflecting glass that’s also a screen, complete with a set of speaker, a camera and a microphone, from which you can access a full-on fitness portal. You pick a lesson or a workout, and the interactive virtual instructor will guide you through it. Designed to training at home during quarantine. Full article here
Forme is a tall iPhone-shaped piece of reflecting glass that’s also a screen, complete with a set of speaker, a camera and a microphone, from which you can access a full-on fitness portal. You pick a lesson or a workout, and the interactive virtual instructor will guide you through it. Designed to training at home during quarantine. Full article here
Launched by Caimi Brevetti, this series of mobile separator screens, new or reinterpreted, are designed for public spaces. Easy to move, antibacterial and soundproof.
Products and designers: Caimi Lab, Arianna; Michele De Lucchi e Sezgin Aksu, Battista; Sezgin Aksu, Sepà Rolls
Launched by Caimi Brevetti, this series of mobile separator screens, new or reinterpreted, are designed for public spaces. Easy to move, antibacterial and soundproof.Products and designers: Caimi Lab, Arianna; Michele De Lucchi e Sezgin Aksu, Battista; Sezgin Aksu, Sepà Rolls
Produced by PLH®, Abaco is the collection of control plates coated with a material with antibacterial properties: 316L stainless steel has been used for this purpose, a metal easily treated with PVD technology, that is able to eliminate the proliferation of bacteria in a few hours.
Abaco is the collection of control plates coated with a material with antibacterial properties: 316L stainless steel has been used for this purpose, a metal easily treated with PVD technology, that is able to eliminate the proliferation of bacteria in a few hours.
The system is designed for the safety of customers and staff, ensuring minimal human contact during food preparation. The hamburger restaurant device prepares the orders inside a closed glass structure and delivers the finished product outside through a pressurized chamber. The design of Creator Transfer Chamber is open source so that other restaurants can also build one.
The system is designed for the safety of customers and staff, ensuring minimal human contact during food preparation. The hamburger restaurant device prepares the orders inside a closed glass structure and delivers the finished product outside through a pressurized chamber. The design of Creator Transfer Chamber is open source so that other restaurants can also build one.
Due to the Coronavirus outbreak, people interface with objects in different ways, using gloves or avoiding using their hands to press a button or open a door. Handy is an open source multitool that allows you to perform these actions safely: ergonomic and customizable, it can be produced by 3D printing, laser cutting or DIY built.
Due to the Coronavirus outbreak, people interface with objects in different ways, using gloves or avoiding using their hands to press a button or open a door. Handy is an open source multitool that allows you to perform these actions safely: ergonomic and customizable, it can be produced by 3D printing, laser cutting or DIY built.
It is a do-it-yourself project, a picnic blanket to maintain the social distancing required by the health emergency. The circular fabric by the English designer allows four people to meet at a distance of 2 meters, thus reinterpreting sociality. Here Comes The Sun can be downloaded and reinterpreted using available materials. Full article here
It is a do-it-yourself project, a picnic blanket to maintain the social distancing required by the health emergency. The circular fabric by the English designer allows four people to meet at a distance of 2 meters, thus reinterpreting sociality. Here Comes The Sun can be downloaded and reinterpreted using available materials. Full article here
Encouraging the maintenance of social distancing, the Livable research and design platform has created a wearable rattan structure that covers face and body. The project aims to make people aware of distances during the emergency and is created for the United Nations Global Call Out To Creatives, which helps to stop the spread of Coronavirus.
Encouraging the maintenance of social distancing, the Livable research and design platform has created a wearable rattan structure that covers face and body. The project aims to make people aware of distances during the emergency and is created for the United Nations Global Call Out To Creatives, which helps to stop the spread of Coronavirus.
A partition screen designed for bars, restaurants and hair saloons. Made of anodized aluminum and a perspex panel, the project is a solution to socialize during the pandemic. Custom shape, size and color.
A partition screen designed for bars, restaurants and hair saloons. Made of anodized aluminum and a perspex panel, the project is a solution to socialize during the pandemic. Custom shape, size and color.
Designed and put into production by DVO, the DV300-Screen helps to maintain distances in work environments, both open spaces and hotel receptions. Thanks to its self-supporting and lightweight structure it can be adapted to any surface.
The DV300-Screen helps to maintain distances in work environments, both open spaces and hotel receptions. Thanks to its self-supporting and lightweight structure it can be adapted to any surface.
To face the pandemic, Abet Laminati proposes a new integrated system that monitors body temperature and sanitizes public environments by integrating technology into laminate panels. The project consists of Igea Insula - a prefabricated island of rapid installation equipped with thermal imaging cameras - and Safety Box - a modular passage tunnel that detects temperature and the presence of masks and is provided with disinfectant nebulizers.
To face the pandemic, Abet Laminati proposes a new integrated system that monitors body temperature and sanitizes public environments by integrating technology into laminate panels. The project consists of Igea Insula - a prefabricated island of rapid installation equipped with thermal imaging cameras - and Safety Box - a modular passage tunnel that detects temperature and the presence of masks and is provided with disinfectant nebulizers.