Iron Accessory · 2020
Urbano Handle Bar for Bicycles
- A' Design Award 2020 in Accessory
- CLIENT: Nottingham Trent University
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 14,134
- Verification code EAA9EA9476 · Verify this award
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About Urbano Handle Bar for Bicycles
Urbano is an innovative handle-bar & carrying bag for bikes. It aims to carry heavy weight with bikes comfortably, easy and safely in urban areas. The unique shape of the handle-bar provides space to fit the bag. The bag can be easily attached to handle-bar with the help of the hook and velcro bands. The placement of the bag generates advantages with driving experience which is much needed in urban areas. The bar is also designed to stabilize the bag that helps to give the better driving experience to the cyclist.
About the A' Design Award
Urbano Handle Bar for Bicycles is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations. Iron winners demonstrate great skill, high specialization, expert understanding, and creative capacity of their creators. Urbano Handle Bar for Bicycles is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished creation that is practical and innovative. This Iron A' Design Award-winning design integrates industry best practices and has competent technical characteristics linked with know-how and talent. Urbano Handle Bar for Bicycles is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.
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- Unique Properties
- Urbano is an innovative handle-bar & carrying bag for bikes. It aims to carry heavy weight with bikes comfortably, easy and safely in urban areas. The handle-bar is universal and can fit on to any kind of bicycle. The bar is also designed to stabilize the bag that helps to give the better driving experience to the cyclist.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The handle bar comes with multiple width options which depends on the shoulder width.
- Tags
- Urban, Fashion, Bag, Bicycle, Handlebar
- Production Technology
- All the materials and production techniques are included in submitted pdf document.
- Design Challenge
- Observations in London was a bit hard because I had travel around all the city to determine the problems that urban commuters encountering. It was actually fun to take all the pictures and to actually see the problems however it was a bit tiring activity to walk around the city for days.
- Research
- Quality literature review, an online survey, semi-structured interviews living in both London and Istanbul and an extensive observation studies are reported in submitted PDF documents. The deep research enabled me to set a design brief to apply a solution for the concerning problem.
- Inspiration
- The main inspiration of the project comes from urban life-style and its obstacles. With the growing world people are more tended to move to bigger cities and it causes congestion which causes delays in people's daily routines.The project aims to find a alternative solution for urban commuters. The brief is set up after the research process. Highly detailed research process supported with literature review, surveys and observational studies was the key point of the project.
- Project Duration
- The project started in January 2018 in Nottingham Trent University. After 3 months of research process, the actual designing process started and lasted for two months. Project ended in May 2018 in Nottingham Trent University.
- Operation Flow
- The handle-bar can be easily fitted on to any bike. The unique shape of the handle-bar provides space to fit the bag. The bag can be easily attached to handle-bar with the help of the hook and velcro bands. The placement of the bag generates advantages with driving experience. It allows much safer trip with weight balancing and also gives better control with the bike itself which is much needed in urban areas.
- Patents
- Copyrights belong to Mert Ali Bükülmez, 2018
