Product Design

This project was a collaborative piece. I couldn't have asked for a better partner, Milagros Sampietro. At first we had no clue what we wanted to do. This project was a "Product Design" which consisted in creating a new, fresh, and inventive design for travel. Since we have been working with the concept of travel we looked for a "loop" whole :). We figured everyone else in class was going to think about travel as flight or roadtrips. Milagros and I thought about travel within New York City. This was no easy task. We headed off to the MOMA (Museum Of Modern Art) to seek for inspiration. The picture on the lefthand side demonstrates 4 highly inspirational pieces, As clearly shown inspiration of circles within circles and finally a wheelchair. We brainstormed the following:

At first we came up with a design concept specifically designed for hat , and how to transport hats. (Picture on the left)This as most of you already know already exists, but we couldn't find a way to make it clearly stand out as different. So we kept on moving with sketches.

Our next compelling sketch was based on an accordion type looking square luggage box (picture on the right). Which could be adjustable to size and several compartments within the box. After analyzing the sketch we weren't convinced nor did we enjoy our sketch that much, so we kept on playing with the concept and re arranging it.

Keeping the same concept of the accordion we modified the shape according to our inspiration, meaning the luggage would be circular (picture on the left) and the same shape would enable the luggage to move. Making sure that the mechanism would allow the "wheel" to move but not the items within the compartment. It also had two handle ideas, a firm plastic handle or a cloth roll-out handle.
Then again we kept on pushing out design further to evolution it to something better.

Thinking about wheels! In the MOMA several children got stopped for riding scooters inside the MOMA, so we incorporated clothes hangers on a elongated scooter to transport groceries and other things.

The ideas moved forward and sparked more and more. One concrete idea we had was bicycles. We thought about what do New Yorkers use a lot as a means of transportation? and in New York, at least around where I live , I see CityBikes everywhere, so we thought if we could incorporate the third design within the wheels of the bikes, what a better way of transporting yourself on bicycles with a great amount of luggage you wouldn't regularly  carry on one.

Our final design! we kept on thinking about our inspiration and transportation. This idea sparked. Not many thing are designed for the handicap because they aren't the majority sometimes they are overlooked. So what we have decided was to create a luggage compartment within the wheel to make their travel easier. We played around with the idea a lot and came up with a final 
concept which is on the right side