Australian Student wins International Award

“I would also love to see a future where many more people engage themselves in their own consumer habits by building and recycling their own objects.

“It would be a much more interesting and productive world were it so. I think there is profound unexplored space in this area using the web connected to computer-controlled machine tools and the sharing of the description files for those objects as well as the design process. I am not satisfied with the majority of products and their poor design, perhaps this would lead to better design. I think educational projects like Howtoons will be a part of that.

“I've never been able to stay in what other people would call one field of endeavour. I love to look for the connections between fields old and new. I can personally see all the connections between everything I do. For example, Saul’s older sister selena is an Industrial Designer and runs a company named www.monkeykites.com. Saul designs the aerodynamics, and Selena “does everything else”, according to Saul. “She teaches industrial design and can do just about everything and tries to.”

“I can see similarities - the lenses and kite designs share some very interesting aspects of constrained minimal energy surface design, though I think other people just see it all as haphazard.”

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