on 4 October 2002
Easy Rider by Irene Zingarelli. Photo courtesy APME
European plastics industry body APME called for revolutionary product designs from students in Denmark, France, Germany, Italy and the UK, and picked five of more than a thousand entries for prizes totalling 9000 euros.
UK winner Martina Carpelan comes from Finland, but wait, no cheating involved, she’s just starting her third year at Central St Martin’s College of Art and Design. Quacky, her cleverly constructed beach shoe with detachable flipper, is injection moulded in three types of polyurethane.
Tina Holm Sørensen took the Danish award with what looks like a pod-style courier bag, but in fact provides a long-overdue replacement for the drip stands traditionally wheeled around hospital corridors by patients on infusion. France’s Samuel Prigent applied plastics on a grander scale to create Jungle in the City, a soft playground featuring bendy bridges and, yes, fake plastic trees. The German team engineered Rollbox, an efficient sort of telescopic portable wine rack.
Most endearing, though, is Italian Irene Zingarelli’s scooter-cum-luggage. Her title for the project is Easy Rider, but we reckon it would catch on even faster if it was called a Zingarelli.
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