ice house complete...

Never having gone ice fishing before, this is my solution to creating an easily assembled, easily transported and simple ice fishing house. Starting out as a sled, the ice house could be pulled straight out of the pick-up bed onto the ice. It then could be loaded with all the supplies and hauled out onto the ice.

Set up is also very simple, as the sled is tilted onto its backside and the walls unfold from within itself. A canvas top is Velcroed to the top... LET THE FISHING BEGIN!

Ice shelter...

First excercise... to design a useable ice shelter during the ice fishing season.

But questions arise:

1. How does one make it easily assembled?
2. How much does one need to know about ice fishing to complete the task?
3. How does one move it from point A to point B?
4. Can only one person put it together, or must there be two?
5. Does it have to be a fully enclosed structure in the end to serve its purpose?

It's possible that these questions may be left unanswered, the fact of asking them may be good enough. It is about fully thinking them through that will help design arise.

Starting out a bit icy...

Here's my first blog ever, lets see how this goes.

In the end, I hope to have acquired a new response to the design process. A new way of seeing what is around me, gathered together with a collection of my thoughts and the comments of others.