Clemens Habicht
KITES

Clemens Habicht’s kites are spirited single line flyers, suitable for all skill levels and wind conditions.

The Sail Kite is an exercise in sustainable design in practice. They are handmade from recycled spinnaker sails, the spars are bamboo, the string is cotton and the spindles are made from locally recycled plastic. No new plastics are used in the making of the kites.

Each kite is a unique combination of reused sail cloth colours.

The kites therefore demonstrate sustainable design in action and promote a culture of sustainability both in the manufacturing process and in the global end user market. They are assembled to create a valuable piece of art out of something otherwise destined for landfill.
To Clemens “there might not be a need to make more new products, but there is a need to find useful new products to stop things becoming landfill.”

The Cyanokites are a suite of five paper kites in the colours of the sky.

The kites are an interpretation of the Cyanometer, an invention of the Swiss scientist and alpinist Horace Bénédict De Saussure to measure the blueness of the sky, the kites are a cyanometer in flight.

The kite spindle is itself a cyanometer with 52 values of blue.

Adapted from the traditional Indian fighter kite, the Patang, the kites are a collaboration with the craftsman and traditions of Rajasthan and Gujarat with a design focus on sustainability.