LOTS Design (Gothenburg), Koucky & Partners (Gothenburg) and Green Idea Factory (Berlin) teamed up to design an innovative bike sharing system for the City of Copenhagen. The team’s entry, called OPENbike, was yesterday awarded a first price at the city’s international design competition with 127 entries from 5 continents.

The City of Copenhagen, one of the world leading cycling cities, aims at establishing a new bike share system and has therefore initiated an open international design competition. The winning entry, called OPENbike, puts the user in the centre and proposes a system that is easy to use, flexible and fully scalable. The design goal has been to create a system that seamlessly integrates with public transport and becomes a natural part of Copenhagen’s existing bicycle culture. The system proposes a smart card system and positioning solutions integrated in each bicycle to create a fully floating bike share system. OPENbike does therefore not need special stands and bicycles can easily be repositioned and adapted to the cities changing needs.

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As the bicycle becomes the preferred form of transport in modern cities, Copenhagen is holding an open design competition for a new bike share system. The city wants the system to be a faithful friend in an hour of need for Copenhageners, and to be an attractive product for the city’s guests.

Copenhagen’s bicycle system is a natural part of city life - citizens rarely give it a second thought. The above video by Mikael Colville-Andersen shows how ingratiated cycling is in the city’s landscape.

For the competition’s assignment and criteria, download the guidelines from the website.

This is a new post by David Report contributor Kristina Dryza.

How do you integrate a basket in the handlebar? That was the question the Danish based design company Goodmorning Technology asked themselves when developing the city bike concept for New York Department of Park & Recreation. They wanted a basket that would be at the
bike the whole time and that never could be stolen or lost. In the New York Bike project phase they developed the special integrated handlebar that will help many a biker from now one!

The bike porter is made of tubes and is as easy to put on your bike as a normal handlebar. Goodmorning Technology has developed a whole range in many colors and with integrated designed bags if you wish! The patent is filled out the and all intellectual property belongs to Goodmorning Technology. The bike porter is perfect for fixies and other street bikes as well as standard bikes.

The basket will from now one never be stolen, easy destroyed and at the same time, the designed bags are easy to fill up in the shops and take along. You can also use your own bag, laptop or whatever you need!

Goodmorning Technology has showed it before with the New York City bike, but this is first time as a single product without the bike.

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True innovation requires an open mind, a willingness to embrace new ideas – or to create a completely new way of thinking. That principle is what led to the creation of the Ross Lovegrove-designed Bamboo, a new addition to the Biomega line.

The Milan Design Week will set the stage for Biomega´s world premiere of the Bamboo, the exceptional new bike designed by acclaimed Ross Lovegrove. From 22nd to 27th of April the Bamboo bike will be presented at: Design Library, Via Savona 11, 20144 Milano from 10 am to 10 pm.

On Thursday 23rd, Ross Lovegrove, Jens Martin Skibsted, founder of Biomega, and a group of fellow designers will take some of the world’s most beautiful bikes out for a ride - inviting you and all bike enthusiasts with a bike of their own to join them in experiencing Furniture for Locomotion at it’s best.

This spectacular bike ride will start off at the Design Library at 11am and end the same place, where there will be time to have a bite to eat and a drink while discussing the designs of Ross Lovegrove and Jens Martin Skibsted.

Bamboo will be on show at Design Library all week offering the perfect backdrop for getting your photo taken with this amazing design icon. This is an opportunity not to be missed: The guest with the best Bamboo photo of the week will have the honor of winning this ground breaking piece of art, signed by Ross Lovegrove himself.

The Bamboo

When properly prepared as on the Bamboo bike, fast-growing bamboo is stronger than steel, with a wonderfully natural radiance. This intricately finished yet highly functional bike was co-developed with the expertise of Brazilian bamboo specialist Flavio Deslandes, and is handmade in Denmark exacting Biomega standards. Combined with Biomega’s low-maintenance shaft drive, the Bamboo is the ideal personification of the desire to reintroduce the wonder of the natural world into today´s urban environment.

Ross Lovegrove

Ross Lovegrove is truly a pioneer of industrial design. As co-founder of Lovegrove Studio in the Notting Hill area of London, the Welsh-born designer has exuberantly embraced the potential offered by digital technologies. However, he blends his love of high tech with a belief that the natural world had the right idea all along: Many of his pieces are inspired by principles of evolution and microbiology.

Delightedly crossing categories, Lovegrove has worked for clients as varied as Apple, Issey Miyake, Herman Miller and Airbus. His personal artwork has been exhibited at MoMA inNew York, the Pompidou Centre in Paris and the Design Museum in London. Lovegrove’s astonishing objects are the result of an ongoing quest to create forms that, as he puts it, touch people’s soul. Lovegrove was presented the world technology award by TIME magazine and CNN in November 2005.

Biomega

Imagine the ideal city. If you’re like Biomega, that city is clean. Peaceful. Stunning. No less energized than the urban environments in which we currently thrive, but more focused, more pure, and in tune with the natural world. That dream is what drives Biomega in the creation of our urban-landscape-changing bikes. Their goal is to create a paradigm shift in the way society imagines transportation. To compete directly with cars by constructing bikes that are so beautiful that they imbue our cities with new meaning, even as they make us healthier, happier and more connected than a car ever could. Simply put, the bikes – and the trendsetters who ride them – have the ability to transform the world into a more beautiful place, and to blend our dreams for the future with the needs of the present. Biomega bikes are meant to usher in a new age in city living. All it takes is one look – and one ride – to understand the difference we can make, as bike, rider, and style become one.

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Sometimes product design makes me really happy! Soon we can take a ride on Peak’s new bicycles, designed by talented Swedish designer Erik Nohlin. He has managed to re-create the actual sign of the bike, taken away all the blingbling. And what is left is pure function - and pure beauty! I am looking forward to a bright spring on the roads!

This is a post by David Report contributor Hanna Ljungström.

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In the latest edition of my conversation with Satyendra Pakhale here at the David Report blog we were discussing sustainable design. Then I came across British company Specialbike which is refurbishing old bikes with precision craftsmanship and high-end parts. They take a bike that has seen better days, strip it down to the frame, blast it down to bare metal, powder coat and then rebuild with love. All bikes are unique. I like the business idea a lot. We have to stop the wear-and-tear mentality and re-use of old products is a good way forward to a sustainable society. At the same time individuality is sought after. Specialbike makes a good combination of the two!

Thanks to Springwise.

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tags technorati : reuse recycle specialbike sustainability bicycle bike

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