Comments on: Zipit by Victor Matic

By: Prof. Z. IRA

Prof. Z. IRA — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 09:42:35 +0000

I show this to my wife … she wants now to become a designer… may be a
me too designer with zip ties….to kill me?
pS : sorry for those who translate me with google translate in Brazil or in Malaisia…

By: jed_

jed_ — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 12:16:44 +0000

hey, this guy is a student. it’s good to try these things to develop a process and work towards different forms. it’s hardly his fault that someone deemed it worthy of posting here but it is a good student project and a very nice looking chair.

good work.

By: dsgngurunyc

dsgngurunyc — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 08:17:51 +0000

Dear me! It’s all been said above… there is no point to replacing a fastening device by a new less effective one. The chair itself is not beautiful. Please can some young (I’m assuming) designers try and design things that have some point to the design or something that is beautiful. All to often new designers think that gaining press is their vehicle to succeeding, unfortunately this time (especially with global recession) is over and it is time to applaud true design again. Bad design cannot be excused because it has a concept alone.

By: Dragan

Dragan — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 07:38:12 +0000

this is the example how some idea that have simplicity as goal become complicated at the end.
anyhow there is a potencial in it and it need`s some development and improvement (just like my english).
when u test the chair,the durability is not measured by pressure in the pushing direction like standing but something more like rocking…so just guess what will happen with this chair.
also I can`t see variable adjusting?

By: jeff w

jeff w — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:05:13 +0000

another cool zip-tie chair:

http://www.digit-all.net/core.php?sec=projects&id=28

By: slater

slater — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:18:32 +0000

ok, I think the screw comments are quite funny and valid, but if you remove and re-insert hardware such as a screw too many times, it will eventually strip the hole…in which case you use a bolt and a nut. So, the zip-ties are still not as effective, or re-useable, as traditional hardware.

By: KB

KB — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:57:05 +0000

seems structurely unsound.

By: Greg

Greg — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:32:10 +0000

Not the first person to try this.

http://www.johncaswelldesign.co.uk/zippy.html

By: modular

modular — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:07:06 +0000

screws are cheaper than plastic ties.
screws are more robust.
screws last longer.
screws are better.

so… why this? Just to be “different”?

Design is dead.

By: nolok

nolok — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:06:57 +0000

this will not hold for a long time.