Rubber bands to the rescue

While preparing a talk the other day for Kingston Uni students I realised how the above examples of ‘There, I Fixed It’ actually display some really creative design thinking.

Not to mention, thrifty recycling. Yes, some are incredibly dangerous and inefficient, but from an immediate need and iterative point of view, they’re great examples of superb fluid thinking.

A little like my own uses over the years with rubber bands!

This is why you should always have a little collection of rubber bands in your pocket.

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  1. […] resonant with me in this edition is the bit on rubber bands! I’ve talked about them a lot over the years, since starting to collect the red ones left by postal workers in the early […]

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