5 ways that design can help public sector projects stand out
Industrial design and innovation in public spaces. In this article, we take a look at industrial design for the public sector – at national, regional, and local level. Governments can have many design requirements for public space projects, and can benefit hugely from great design and innovation.
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How to choose the perfect urban furniture for a park
Industrial design for landscape architects. At Neko, we’re specialists in industrial design for the urban environment, and we often work in landscape architecture. However, we are not landscape architects.
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5 things to consider when choosing a cycle lane separator
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 of cycle lane divider.
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Design innovation at the start of 2021
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, all forcing us to re-evaluate our profession of […]
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Improving cycling infrastructure for a post-pandemic world
A design perspective One of the unexpected highlights during our strict lock down 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, looking both ways […]
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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?
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 this week we are finally allowed outside for […]
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What is urban furniture?
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 we get quite often is what does that […]
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How (and why) to design user-centred cycling infrastructure
I’d like to talk a little about inclusive urban furniture design for cycling infrastructure, and how we can use design to encourage bicycle use in cities by thinking about the needs and problems facing cyclists and their environment. In 2005, we started Neko – an Industrial Design and Architecture studio. We were four partners from […]
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Why great design is a team effort
Why multidisciplinary teams come up with the best designs Over time, through our work and our many collaborations with people from all different backgrounds, we know that great design stems from a fusion of ideas, experiences and points of view. We are proud to have a fantastic team at Neko which of course includes designers, […]
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