Stealth balance: Piggy Bank by Selma Durand uses a cleverly hidden balance to weigh pocket change, the inner container leveling with the outer when 1, 2 and 5-cent coins add up to about a Euro, "enough to buy a stamp, a coffee or a baguette."




Details: A master's project at ENSCI-Les Ateliers.

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Designer: Born in France, based in Brooklyn, NY, Selma Durand is an industrial designer with a Master of European Design (MEDes) in Industrial Design/Design Management from Konstfack University, Stockholm, and in Interior Architecture/Product Design from Politecnico di Milano, Milan, a 2014 Master of Industrial Design from ENSCI-Les Ateliers, Paris, and a focus on "simplifying complexity."



Source: Via MOCO Submit. Photos by Véronique Huygue.