SOLUTION: Sometimes you gotta do something because it’s fun, go fly a kite!
Night Kite reimagined and reversed Ben Franklin’s kite and key experiment to send controlled electricity up, rather than chaotically coming down.
Selected as a Finalist in the SMARTPapers Kite Design Competition by a jury including one of the most celebrated graphic designers in the world, Milton Glaser. Night Kite was exhibited at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C., in March 2003.
Night Kite
SMARTPapers Kite Design Competition, FINALIST
Exhibited: The Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum March 2003
This pre-drone-era project was born out of 3M’s 15% Policy Program, which aims to incubate employee ideas in hopes of discovering the future (accidental) successes like Post-It Notes and Scotchguard.