Drawing a bicycle is NOT as easy as it looks or sounds and we’re certain some of you have had difficulty sketching one. An Italian-designer has tapped into this and is now producing bikes based on people’s drawings from memory.
Hands up anyone who has ever tried to draw a bicycle and made a complete and utter mess of it.
Yes, it appears many of us fall into that bracket but instead of feeling like a total idiot, turns out your, er, creation has a place on the market!
Yes, an Italian–based company is now designing bicycles based on people’s attempts to draw them from memory.
The idea is the brainchild of Italian-based product designer Gianluca Gimini who, in 2009, started asking people to draw bikes.
What he found was quite startling.
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He took 376 drawings from participants ranging from three to 88 years of age and based on their drawings he began building.
Credit to the man, he has quite an engineering brain because many drawings were returned without fundamental bike parts.
So you can sketch a badly drawn bike, or get your kids to draw one, and then get it made.
Take a look and laugh!
The names and ages of those who sketched are visible under the 'prototypes'.
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