Bando Jacket

Long description

Where do the old tires go?

This was the starting point for the development of this project.

At least 450 thousand tons of tires are discarded every year only in Brazil, a number that continues to grow as well as the number of accidents suffered by motorcyclists.

The Bando Jacket was designed to provide a sustainable, practical, and direct answer to these two major problems.

Developed for the protection of motorcyclists in traffic accidents, especially for professionals who use the motorcycle daily as a work tool. The Bando jacket circulates materials that have been discarded, such as tires, inner tubes, truck tarpaulin, and scraps of resistant fabrics leftover from the factories’ production.

As a way of thinking beyond the obvious and reusing materials, reframing solutions, and creating new concepts for old problems, the Bando Jacket was developed to solve the real need for lack of protection for motorcyclists in a practical and inexpensive way. The impact protection points use car and truck air chambers and also wire-free pneumatic rubber. The jacket also has luminous details on the arms and back, to give greater visibility at night.

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