These are all products I would find in the Friday market (scrap market) here in Cairo. Some work, in perfect conditions, some don’t but have parts that still function.
I might have changed careers and now I am a stop motion animator, but product design will always be my biggest fascination. The idea of designing something that ends up in trash saddens me the most, and the solution is not to stop creating, humans will never stop making things. But rather
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So much to say about designyatra conference in Goa, india! Hands down the friendliest audience who made it such an incredible and fun experience. 🙌💛
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I gave a “tinker friday” workshop during Pictoplasma Berlin 2019, we prepared so many products that were no longer working for participants to take apart, see what’s inside and then try to imagine and design their own characters from all the pieces.
Seeing more than 100 people with screwdrivers in their hand makes me so happy! I hope everyone who joined had a great time 🙌 I hope you learned more about what’s inside your products and that now you don’t fear taking anything apart! Maybe even try to fix it!
Some shared that it was a challenge for them to create with a different medium, they mostly work with paper or digitally on computer (not with computer parts!) But challenging your creative muscle is always a good and they ended up creating very interesting characters!
Here are some thoughts that swirl in my brains everyday, they are more of incomplete thoughts, but they are there, swirling…
I spent 2016 disassembling products that were about to be thrown away and making stop motion stories. I didn’t know squat about stop motion, I was only interested in how we consume stuff. And over the past year I couldn’t put it in any other way, I question how we consume things, be it anything!
Read MoreThis was an interesting one! I kept seeing pink slugs on my instagram feed, I asked one of my insta pals and came to know about The pink slug project! And that there are actually PINK slugs in real life!
Read MoreI choose a cassette tape last week because I’ve been piling up with side projects that I wanted to do and wanted something simple to animate that week, or so I thought! Knitting on its own is very time-consuming, let alone stop motion-ing it!
Read MoreI skipped a couple of Tinker mails, sorry, I was going through a couple of confusing weeks of me thinking over and over about why I am doing what I am doing.
Read MoreThis week I chose a lock because I got bored from opening ewaste, electronics is not something I comprehend, I like to see how all pieces come together, but examining PCBs is not something I enjoy at all. And a lock is an extremely interesting “puzzle” product.
Read MoreMy lil sister has been doing some career consulting before choosing a university to enroll to and last week she asked me the famous Pen Interview question 'What would you do with a pen other than writing?' And all of a sudden I see this question popping everywhere! Hence...
Read MoreThis week I picked a watch and was totally excited, because to me watches equal gears! And gears are my true Love.
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