Bike lane divider design
By Neko co-founders, Hiroshi Ikenaga & Alice Pegman There’s been a lot in the news the past year about bike lanes – cities worldwide have installed pop-up ones during the pandemic and are now looking at how to make them a permanent fixture. There are so many ways to achieve this and many different types […]
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Design innovation at the start of 2021
By Hugo Villalobos – Senior Designer at Neko 2020 was a challenging year in so many ways, but it gave us the opportunity to understand just how much it is necessary for our societies to change. Taking care of the environment, our health and other challenges that rose to the surface during the global pandemic, […]
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Designing for cycling after lockdown
Designing for cycling after lockdown / Alice Pegman One of my unexpected highlights during our strict lockdown in Spain was making the short trip to the end of the road to throw our rubbish away every couple of days! The first time, as usual, I kept to the pavement, crossing the street at the zebra crossing, […]
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‘Wave’ by Neko wins Red Dot for outstanding design quality
– Neko’s Wave play sculpture wins the Red Dot Award: Product Design 2020 – The Red Dot Award is one of the most renowned seals of quality worldwide for excellence in design We are very proud to announce that our ‘Wave’ play sculpture has been awarded a prestigious Red Dot Design Award for outstanding product […]
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What’s next for our public spaces?
What’s next for our public spaces? / Alice Pegman In Spain, the Covid-19 lockdown has been one of the strictest in the world. Only one adult at a time is allowed out only to go to the supermarket or the pharmacy. For six long weeks, children were not allowed to leave home at all. As of […]
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What is urban furniture?
By Neko co-founders Karime Tosca & Alice Pegman It’s easy sometimes to forget that what you do every day in your work and the words you use in your field might not be that clear to those outside it. An important part of our work at Neko is designing urban furniture – but one question […]
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Inclusive furniture design for cycling infrastructure
Inclusive furniture design for cycling infrastructure / Daniel Olvera I’d like to write about inclusive urban furniture design for cycling infrastructure, and the way in which we can use design to encourage bicycle use in cities by basing our thinking on the needs and problems facing cyclists and their environment. Twelve years ago, we started Neko […]
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Design as a team effort
Design as a team effort / Alice Pegman For 12 years, I have been a non-designer in the world of industrial design. Over time, through our work at Neko and our many collaborations with people from all different backgrounds, I have come to appreciate that great design is that which stems from a fusion of ideas, experiences […]
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Bikeathon 2017
Learning in the real world! / Alice Pegman It was a great honour for us to be involved in the Bikeathon 2017 event alongside the British Embassy in Mexico and Jacaranda Education. According to Michael Beckwith from Jacaranda Education, the idea behind this initiative was to promote innovation, educational, scientific and technological projects which strengthen the relationship […]
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