Good Design

Everyone loves to be near moving water.

While taking a morning walk I saw these collapsible bags.

A great way for people to get waste off their property.

I don't know how they are picked up.

Good Design: Seats

Wherever I go I observe where people chose to sit in public to see if the design and location of the seats and space work. 

These large bean bags are scattered around a small inner city green space.

Some people sat on them while they looked at an art work - a tall, rectangular screen with changing colours.

These two people chose to sit on the bean bags while they had their coffee rather than sit in the classic Adirondack chairs.

People put their feet up on the bags and on foot stools, a sign they felt comfortable sitting in the space.

They dragged the bean bags around the space to create their own temporary environments.

I decided this seating area is successful.

Good Design: Road Barriers

Good design can be applied to all aspects of life - even temporary road barriers.

This design has interlocking units with hand holds and can be stacked.

This barrier has a high visibility orange colour by day and reflector strips that can be seen at night. Additional warnings can be threaded through the top loops.

This is a more substantial barrier, with an interlocking connection and compact, manageable unit size.

Through a hole in the top, covered with a rubber flap, the barrier can be filled with water (or sand?) to give it more weight insitu.

William Morris and his cronies would have been interested in these road barriers even though they are not hand made. They were all about well functioning design  in all aspects of one's life.

Design: Building Facades

Old building with ornate wooden facade.

 

Old building newly painted with an oxidising paint to make it look older.

New building with a sculptural graphic facade.