Jason Iftakhar presented his folding scooter Geetobee at 100 % Design Exhibition in London last week. Designed for adults as a commuter vehicle, it offers a seriously fun alternative to brompton bikes, kick boards and tube rides with your nose trapped in other passengers’ smelly armpits – perfect for zooming round town. Creative approach to design and functionality with an eye on sustainable environmental themes of recycling and a certain frugality.
Art and identity combine to create new products.Writer Arthur Koestler said, ”Every creative act involves a new innocence of perception, liberated from the cateract of accepted belief”, and ”creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual”.
Geetobee
Jason Iftakhar was struck by how much waste packaging supermarkets generated. ‘My idea is about getting a big result without wasting a lot of energy,’ he says. ‘The materials and the machinery were already there, it just needed to be harnessed. It’s the perfect environment to take advantage of a system that’s already established.’ He developed a cutting tool that uses the standard supermarket packing machines to turn old boxes into simple furniture. This upcycling turns a low value item into a neat new product with interesting design and decoration possibilities.
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