Giradora, designed by Alex Cabunoc and Ji A You, cuts the water and time needed for laundry.
Students and staff at Art Center’s Designmatters program will make their mark on Fast Company’s upcoming issue dedicated to design.
Kim Chow designed the clip-on faucet device, Balde A Balde, that turns any water basin into a source of flowing water for those who lack running water in their homes. And Alex Cabunoc and Ji A You created a $40 foot-powered washer, Giradora, which cuts the water and time needed for laundry.
Designmatters' Mariana Amatullo
The finalists will appear in Fast Company’s October issue, “Good Design = Good Business,” on newsstands on Sept. 18. Winners will be announced Oct. 16 at a special event in New York as part of National Design Week.
Additionally, Fast Company editors named Mariana Amatullo, vice president of the Designmatters department, to the 2012 Co.Design 50, a list of the most influential designers shaping the future. Amatullo and other winners will highlighted in an eight-page feature in the magazine’s October issue.
“It is humbling and a real thrill to get a pat on the back in this way for the growing body of work of Designmatters at Art Center,” Amatullo said. “The recognition is a tribute to the talent and creativity of so many of our students, and to the contributions of a team of outstanding colleagues.”
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