We’ve never really covered electric wheelchairs or power chairs in any great amount of detail on BBS for a number of reasons. Partly it’s because, with the importance of individual requirements, the prices involved and the provision of power chairs, we’re just not that sure how much influence a style guide would have. But what…
Every industry seems to have its own small part of the year that’s devoted to ‘awards season’. Rather than spreading out the accolades throughout the year, we get a concentrated span of time during which the majority of it all happens at once. This particular time of year is when the world’s best designers take…
Bringing the retro boom into to the wheelchair market, the fabulous KPII is a brand new wheelchair with its roots very much in the past. Hailed as the first ever vintage wheelchair, the KPII is inspired by, and based on, the model used by King Philip of Spain, the man generally considered to have been…
Following on from our previous article regarding ‘Inclusive Design‘, the shortlist of The Design Awards 2014 include two products we like; the Bradley watch and the Chair for Life. The Bradley watch is named after Paralympian blind swimmer Bradley Snyder who won gold medals at London 2012. The video below explains what it’s all about…
Last Friday we posted an article on the new mobility designs recognised at this year’s iF Awards. The awards are highly prestigious in the design world and can help to make or break a project. After the popularity of last week’s piece we thought it would be fun to have a look back at the history…
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…
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…