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An umbrella with a pattern of cats and dogs.

In reference to the English phrase “It’s raining cats and dogs” to express that is raining very heavily.

Concept: Cellphone controlled toy car.

tiny toy cars that can be controlled via bluetooth with your cellphone.
*to have fun making races at the office

I always wanted the ATM’s to have folders for my bank account.

Often happens that I go to withdraw money, and I know that I should not be spending that money… but I don’t know from “where” I’m spending it. (from my savings? my holiday plan?, the house rent?)
I think it could be good to have folders in your bank account so you can distribute your money and every time you take money from an ATM you choose from which folder you want to withdraw.

The problem with current ATM’s is that when you see your “Total money”, you might think you have a lot! but in reality you can’t spend more because all is allocated. (so with this idea you can choose what to sacrifice:)

*normally people have more than one bank account and cards to solve this problem, but I’m a simple man, I just want one account.

A toy concept: Combinable animal shapes.

it could be done in different materials: wood, foam..

This clock is made with 12 small watches… in this way you can know what time is it by looking at any part of the clock. Besides that, it makes a really nice visual effect.

A prospective and challenging approach to bathing products, environments and experiences.

The Modular Family Bath is a set of basic forms (pipe, block, ground and panel) that allow the users to build, change and adapt the bath according to their changing moods and needs.

A concept of “white board”-like pen and eraser for the bathroom environment

This concept was submitted to The Coram design award 2002

A toy concept for a bath toy.
The toy has several thermo-chromatic parts that change colour with temperature.
This allows the parent to check the water temperature when bathing the baby, while keeping the baby busy.

This was a competition entry sumbitted in 2001.
*Update: the same concept could be done shaped as rubber duck

A playful nut-breaker.

Using a sewing wooden egg, an elastic rope and a wooden base.
You just need to be good at shot

As the base is over-filled with nut-placements, it resembles to a table-game.

concept of dining mat with heating functionality to avoid the dishes to get cold.
It is also a kind of digital etch-a-sketch to entertaing the un-focused eater