http://cargocollective.com Aran Dasan Portfolio Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:58:53 +0000 http://cargocollective.com en http://cargocollective.com/akgraphics/Ento http://cargocollective.com/akgraphics/following/akgraphics/Ento Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:58:53 +0000 Aran Dasan Portfolio 2700723 Edible insects are a healthy, tasty, and sustainable source of protein. But how could we make them an everyday reality in the UK? This project is a roadmap for introducing edible insects to the western diet. We believe that this cultural leap could be achieved through a sequence of products and services that will steadily build acceptance. Insects offer a solution to accelerating global food demand. They are much more space and energy efficient than traditional livestock and will happily eat the crops we don’t want. They are also high in protein, low in fat and cholesterol, and rich in nutrients like omega-3. We designed our brand: Ento to build awareness of the benefits of edible insects. Ento will deliver a succession of foods and eating experiences that will gently challenge our cultural taboo. And perhaps by 2020, fresh grasshoppers will be a regular sight in your local Tesco. Project website. Project carried out with Jacky Chung, Jonathan Fraser & Julene Aguirre. (The best) cooking by Kim Insu, chef-in-training at Le Cordon Bleu, London. http://cargocollective.com/akgraphics/Le-Creuset http://cargocollective.com/akgraphics/following/akgraphics/Le-Creuset Sat, 10 Dec 2011 12:14:11 +0000 Aran Dasan Portfolio 2196782 A bread-stamp for transforming your toast into an eggcup, branded for Le Creuset and manufactured in a small batch of 10. Materials: Turned aluminium body, stainless steel blade, cast PU handle. The design brief was set to create a batch of 10 manufactured objects in three weeks. The objects to design were drawn from a random pool of household items, the brand to associate with them was matched with them at random. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/125001/2196782/C.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="446" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/125001/2196782/C_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/125001/2196782/B.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="446" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/125001/2196782/B_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/125001/2196782/A.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="446" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/125001/2196782/A_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/125001/2196782/1.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="446" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/125001/2196782/1_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/125001/2196782/2.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="446" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/125001/2196782/2_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/125001/2196782/3.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="446" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/125001/2196782/3_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/125001/2196782/5.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="446" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/125001/2196782/5_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/125001/2196782/6.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="446" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/125001/2196782/6_o.jpg" align="left" /> Project with Julene Aguirre and Ala Pytlewska. All photography by studiolalka. http://cargocollective.com/akgraphics/Hypotrochoid http://cargocollective.com/akgraphics/following/akgraphics/Hypotrochoid Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:11:56 +0000 Aran Dasan Portfolio 2196751 A hand-cranked spirograph that uses LEDs to trace hypotrochoid patterns. Materials: Aluminium, wooden dowel, synchronous belt and pulleys, bicycle wheel hub, nylon gears. "Gizmo": a project set by the Innovation Design Engineering department at the Royal College of Art and Imperial College London, that challenges its first-years to build a contraption consisting of at least 5 mechanical elements. My gizmo creates hypotrochoids: a family of mathematical curves generated by taking the centre of rotation of a spinning stick, and moving it in a circular path as it spins. 30 seconds of video below explains this rather more succinctly: <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/125001/2196751/_DSC7749.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="445" width_o="2048" height_o="1360" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/125001/2196751/_DSC7749_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/125001/2196751/IMG_9274.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="446" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/125001/2196751/IMG_9274_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/125001/2196751/IMG_9279.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="446" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/125001/2196751/IMG_9279_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/125001/2196751/IMG_9281.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="446" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/125001/2196751/IMG_9281_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/125001/2196751/IMG_9282.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="446" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/125001/2196751/IMG_9282_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/125001/2196751/IMG_9283.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="446" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/125001/2196751/IMG_9283_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/125001/2196751/IMG_9297.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="446" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/125001/2196751/IMG_9297_o.jpg" align="left" /> All photography and video by Fabio. http://cargocollective.com/akgraphics/Foroba-Yelen http://cargocollective.com/akgraphics/following/akgraphics/Foroba-Yelen Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:01:31 +0000 Aran Dasan Portfolio 2179481 Foroba Yelen (translation from Bambara: Collective Light) Materials: Welded and painted steel, LED lights (donated by Phillips) and compact fluorescent bulbs, leisure battery, PV cells (donated by Sharp). A community -owned and -operated streetlight, for the rural village of Zinzana, Mali, West Africa. The light was designed to fit around the tasks carried out everyday in the village, that were desired to be carried out at night. Two mobile lighta resulted, whose batteries are charged from a central charging station in the main village. Locally available materials and expertise were used from the nearest town of Segou, as well as electrical components with a well-established supply chain to the area. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/125001/2179481/1.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="1004" width_o="1424" height_o="2136" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/125001/2179481/1_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/125001/2179481/2.JPG" border="0" width="670" height="446" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/125001/2179481/2_o.JPG" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/125001/2179481/3.JPG" border="0" width="670" height="446" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/125001/2179481/3_o.JPG" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/125001/2179481/4.JPG" border="0" width="670" height="446" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/125001/2179481/4_o.JPG" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/125001/2179481/5.JPG" border="0" width="670" height="446" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/125001/2179481/5_o.JPG" align="left" /> http://cargocollective.com/akgraphics/Blowing-Nowhere http://cargocollective.com/akgraphics/following/akgraphics/Blowing-Nowhere Sun, 09 Oct 2011 19:11:20 +0000 Aran Dasan Portfolio 2122963 A power-generating wind turbine, created for the Nowhere festival. Materials: Stainless steel milking parlour tubes (mast), PVC drainpipe (blades), modified ceiling fan (generator), bike frame (headstock), tent canvas (tail), all salvaged, reclaimed and upcycled. By day: A power-generating wind-turbine, made entirely from upcycled parts. A 12V leisure battery is charged at ground level, via an old ceiling fan whose rotor coils had been replaced with permanent magnets. By night: A dynamic LED art piece. An on-board microprocessor controls three LED-laden blades to display hypnotic patterns as the blades turn. All the time: an intended statement to the traditionally diesel-powered Nowhere festival community that alternative power options exist, and can look good whilst doing so. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/125001/2122963/1.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="445" width_o="720" height_o="479" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/125001/2122963/1_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/125001/2122963/2.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="862" width_o="795" height_o="1024" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/125001/2122963/2_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/125001/2122963/3.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="938" width_o="731" height_o="1024" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/125001/2122963/3_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/125001/2122963/4.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="1004" width_o="683" height_o="1024" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/125001/2122963/4_o.jpg" align="left" /> http://cargocollective.com/akgraphics/Minimal-Surface-Stool http://cargocollective.com/akgraphics/following/akgraphics/Minimal-Surface-Stool Sun, 09 Oct 2011 12:42:36 +0000 Aran Dasan Portfolio 2121906 A small folding stool, for confidence. Materials: Bent and powder-coated steel, nylon A saddle-point, in mathematics, is described as a point where a surface curves up in one direction, and curves down in the other. A stationary point. When we sit on a saddle, we feel confident. When we sit with a chair between our legs, turned backwards, resting our arms on the back-rest, we feel confident. When we sit on this stool, we feel confident. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/125001/2121906/superform_1.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="1000" width_o="2048" height_o="3059" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/125001/2121906/superform_1_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/125001/2121906/superform_2.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="1000" width_o="2048" height_o="3059" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/125001/2121906/superform_2_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/125001/2121906/superform_3.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="1000" width_o="2048" height_o="3059" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/125001/2121906/superform_3_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/125001/2121906/superform_4.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="1000" width_o="2048" height_o="3059" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/125001/2121906/superform_4_o.jpg" align="left" />