The iF awards are one of the most renowned design awards in the world. For over fifty years they’ve been rewarding outstanding designers with a place in the iF exhibition and the right to display the much sought after iF logo on their products. In 2014 iF selected 1,626 designs worthy of their recognition, ranging…
Yesterday we featured some fabulous designs from recent Young Talent EDIDA Winners Lanzavecchia + Wai. As we said then, and when we previously included their No country for old men collection in a post on trendy mobility aids, their designs are not yet in production. But yesterday evening we received an update from the designers with positive news…
Hot young design team Lanzavecchia + Wai have taken home a prestigious EDIDA award from Elle Decoration magazine. Last week they were named the winners of the Young Designer Talent category at the 2014 Elle Deco International Design Awards. It’s a deserved win and one of great interest to us thanks to their work in the…
There are far more uses for smart phone and tablet apps that Flappy Bird and Facebook.In fact, many apps are now helping to solve everyday problems for people with mobility, visual and hearing impairments. Here are our top ten: 1. Siri and other virtual assistants. For less able iPhone users Siri can be a really…
It’s been a while since our last update on developments in the world of wheelchairs. Plenty has happened since then, so we thought it would be a good time to take a look at some of the latest mobility related stories and quickly round up what’s been going on. The first thing to mention, since…
Despite planning to make their local areas accessible the bureaucrats, maintenance workers and builders of the world often end up making matters worse for less able people in their communities. Due to a lack of consulting disabled people during the design process, failing to carry out the work properly or just plain old fashioned stupidity,…
At Blue Badge Style, we tend to spend a lot of our time focusing on the access at trendy restaurants, but we do realise that for most people a meal out is more of a treat rather than an everyday occurrence. Most of the time, most of us eat at home. For people with disabilities…
Someone at the West Dunbartonshire Council must have been channeling the spirit of the Sochi Olympics when they designed this absurd slalom wheelchair ramp. Surely one of the most bonkers ramps you will ever see, it resembles a ski slope or luge track from the Winter Olympics or even an Alton Towers ride far more…
When he’s not busy fighting for the freedom of London’s hardworking commuters/refusing to talk to Bob Crow (depending on what your point of view is) Boris Johnson presumably enjoys the chance to focus on other areas of London’s transport. Recently at Town Hall, he unveiled several new designs for London’s famous black cabs. The black…