Max Battaglia

Milan, Italy

Gymbot - social robot personal trainer

Gymbot is a concept of social robot presented to ICSR 2011 award.
The aim of Gymbot is to increase your physical and psicological health, teaching you a better and healthier life style. Gymbot checks your diet, encourages to do gymnastics and take care of yourself.
A real personal trainer that lives with you 24 hours a day 7 days a week.
Gymbot was selected among the other entries by the jury to be publicated.

Designer: Max Battaglia - givingshape design studio (Italy)
Inspired By: lazyness, bad behaviuors, un-healthy lifestyle
Dimension: 160 cm tall

Sketcher

Sketcher is a tablet especially designed for illustrators and designers who are looking for the best drawing experience. Common tablets do not grant neither accuracy nor pressure levels sensitivity. Sketcher can be used everywhere as a real sketchpad, the 8 quick buttons can be programmed with the preferred functions, and the jogdial allow to turn or zoom the canvas. Sketcher has a simmetrical design so it can be used also by lefthanded people.

Designer: Max Battaglia (Italy)
Manufacturer: concept design for Wacom
Inspired By: sketching on tablet pc
Dimension: 360x255x20

POPI - intelligent foldable umbrella

This umbrella solves all the problems related to foldable umbrellas improving comfort and portability. The handle also works as housing allowing to close the umbrella in it, this brings two advantages:
- handle is larger and more comfortable
- umbrella can be stored anywhere, even when wet

Popi has the same size of a standard umbrella and it works in the same way:
just pull the top cap and pull out the umbrella as if it were a common folding umbrella to close it again just do the reverse.

Designer: Givingshape design studio (Italy)
Inspired By: rain and wet umbrellas
Material: standard umbrella materials
Colours: all you want
Dimension: 23 x 4,4 x 5,5 cm

2D chair

A real design challenge, being able to make a standard seat starting from a single sheet of PMMA with minimal waste of material.
One piece with a single fixing point, almost a miracle of design.
There isn't another chair in the world with these characteristics.

Designer: Max Battaglia - Givingshape Design Studio (Italy)
Inspired By: sheet of paper
Material: PMMA

Basalto Fireplace

The inspiration comes from an Irish cliff called the Giant's Causeway.
This site has volcanic origin and is characterized by a vast amount of basalt columns with various polygonal shapes. Since this natural wonder has been forged by the fire seemed perfect to create a fireplace. I thought "Basalt" in two versions, the white ethanol-fed and black wood-fed. The chimney is replaced by a steel hood to be installed on the ceiling . Both fireplaces are made of glazed ceramic.

Designer: Max Battaglia - Givingshape Design Studio (Italy)
Inspired By: Giant's Causeway cliff
Material: glazed ceramic
Colours: white and black

Pratonzolo

Stylemylife, a young italian start up company, will present during Salone del Mobile 2011 'Pratonzolo", a funny desk organizar in wood and natural bristles ideal to give a touch of green to "greyness" of the metro desk. The project is a collaboration between Max Battaglia and Matteo Mocchi of the design studios Givingshape and BBMds.

Designer: Max Battaglia and Matteo Mocchi (Italy)
Manufacturer: StyleMyLife (Italy)
Inspired By: green grass
Material: wood and bristles
Colours: natural wood, painted wood in any colours
Dimension: 200x100x100 mm

Risot

Ad Maiora Milan will present at the Terme di Milano "Risot" a system of modular panels, suitable for decorating any home wall. Risot is an ideal support for climbing plants, but also by itself creates compositions with high visual impact. Made of a laser-cut steel plate, Risot is fixed to the wall with the normal fischer plugs.

Designer: Max Battaglia (Italy)
Manufacturer: Ad Maiora Milano (Italy)
Material: Steel laser cutted and painted
Colours: white
Dimension: 720x420

MagicBeans

MagicBeans is a funny and ironic coat hanger suitable for any room in the house. This project take inspiration from a fairy tale: jack and the magic beans.
Even though its unusual shape it works very well and the attachment points are adjustable both in number and in height.
If you will be in Milan during the Design week (14 to 19 April) you may see MagicBeans “live” during the Decò 2010 Show - Design Plaza, World Join Center Milan (www.wjc.it).

Designer: Max Battaglia (Italy)
Manufacturer: not yet
Inspired By: the fairy tale jack and the magic beans
Material: plastic
Colours: green and white
Dimension: 60x155x18 cm

Calorisfero

An innovative home radiator Calorisfero gives the space a new meaning, by furnishing it with a warm personality.
Steel and wood hug each other in an eternal sphere, melting matter and soul endlessly.
A new way of thinking about domestic warm: simply at man’s service and his emotions.
Calorisfero is designed by the Milan based design studio My Italian Design and produced by Deltacalor.

Designer: My Italian Design (Italy)
Manufacturer: Deltacalor srl (Italy)

Status

Industrial designer

Location

Milan, Italy

Links

Website

Experience

3 years experienced in industrial design

Organizations & Network

diquattrodesign, My italian design

CONTACT

Milan
Italy

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