Aesthetically Pleasing Pigeon Deterrents
August 15th, 2006
While not having a huge impact on user experience, those intimidating spikes and other devices used to ward off pigeons don’t exactly give you warm fuzzies.
Swiss designers Martino D’Esposito and Alexandre Gaillard’s sharp-edged urban sillouettes demonstrate how functional design can still be beautiful.
LINK: Core77 Design Blog Post on Pigeon Repulsive
Entry Filed under: Aesthetics
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1. This Place Is… &raq&hellip | March 2nd, 2007 at 9:22 am
[…] Steve Portigal posted some pictures of the Embarcadero’s creative “anti-skateboard” devices. The principle is similar to those functional yet visually attractive pigeon deterrents posted about earlier. Says Steve… It’s still ugly, but there’s an emotional component (”cute” - “fun” - “neat”) created by the whimsical shapes that counteracts that reaction quite strongly. I’m sure the original planners and architects are horrified, but it kinda mostly works. […]
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