Monday, January 25, 2010

Weekend sketching





This weekend I believe I chose three different product directions.  I began ideating a few iterations of the backpack and sketched an idea for an in-home filter and hump mold for a clay filter.

backpack sketches.   (click to enlarge)





 Hump Mold (pictured above and below)

A type of mold where you pack your clay around a mold, remove the mold then fire the clay.  The molds can be made at very low cost.  Canvas with a bamboo structure.  The mold can be distributed to villages, or communities without clean drinking water, they can create there own clay filters.  Colloidal silver would need to also be provided, as a means to further purify the water.

It would make sense to be flat packed.  I am currently looking into a coffee filter shape, however I have not made any models or explored other shapes.  Yet.



Plant - Clay - Filter

This concept is a hybridization of those indoor herb gardens, a water dispenser, and a clay water filter.






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