Comments on: Rocking Platforms by Constantinos Economides

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 09:10:27 +0000

I am always amazed at how good artists and designers are at scratching biting and spitting!
Can you actually do a degree in slacking off design? I wonder why people get so agressive when they see other people’s ideas! What about good willing interpretation?
1. The rocking platform for wheelchairs is quite different. Its cool but in fact so different that I think both projects deserve to exist in their own right!
2. Lets face it! we live in the 21st century, nobody is going to reinvent the wheel! However what Constantinos did is to create an add on that allows the very simple transformation of any piece of furniture! Whats wrong with that?
3. This is an inspiring project because it deals with the issue of reuse in a refreshing and witty way. If you fail to recognize that, maybe you are not using the wrong side of your brain a little too much!

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:57:04 +0000

But Brian, not all chairs have leg batons. The idea as I understand it is to use any kind of found chair.

By: Vladimir Boson

Vladimir Boson — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 08:42:17 +0000

Excellent, that’s great!!!

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:10:49 +0000

Uh… Dude?
I thought that using so-called ‘junk’ was considered recycling. I guess that not all the bloggers informed themselves it was about recycling!

As for the comment: “the strapping bisects this zone making use of said chair uncomfortable”. Dude! This statement is so obvious it creates its own ‘negative distortion field’ thereby developing an event plane, disintegrating the argument leaving the reader wondering why even bother?

Listen, I am being facetious. Obviously he could have strung the straps over the leg batons, but this way shows the tension, creating a dramatic VISUAL interplay.

By: bald skull

bald skull — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 04:52:27 +0000

brilliant!

an instant classic!

more clever and whimsy then you can believe it.

By: Honkie

Honkie — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 04:01:37 +0000

I am with K Rimane; bring on the ‘junk’ section……………

By: Frankie

Frankie — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:13:50 +0000

Always nice to rock and recycle, shame it looks like dog S*IT

By: christopher

christopher — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:19:30 +0000

Great idea.

Too bad it doesn’t work, like Edward says.

By: fergus

fergus — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:39:00 +0000

reminds me a bit of this one

http://www.designboom.com/rocking/wheel.html

By: Margherita

Margherita — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:15:06 +0000

I took a picture of his project last year at Salone del Mobile 2007, in Milan. Very nice work. Anyone tested if it works with babies?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/visionet-art/479012929/in/set-72157600161715239/