Eslimi Hanger Brings A New Twist To An Old Design (VIDEO)

While the world has been working on bringing hologram guides to airports and creating car-boat hybrids, another simple, oft-used tool has been crying out for a redesign.

Mehdi Mojtabavi, an industrial designer working for Portland-based design firm Ziba has reinvented the hanger. The streamlined design allows conscious clothing owners to hang their more delicate items without fear of the collars becoming stretched.

Mojtabavi's Eslimi Hanger is made of two separate polypropylene pieces, making the device collapsable and allowing the user to easily remove items from the arms without stretching the garment's fabric. According to Co.Design, the concept won Mojtabavi's firm an IDSA award last year.

While the Eslimi Hanger is a simple yet effective take on the classic clothing hanger, it's certainly not the first redesign to crop up in recent months. Back in December, CNET highlighted the collapsible "SOLO" hanger created by Quirky, a New York-based industrial design company that uses crowd-sourcing to bring inventions to life.

And, more recently, European clothing retailer C&A reinvented hangers in a completely different way; their "Fashion Like" hangers display how many "likes" a clothing item has received on Facebook.

Watch the video above to learn more about how Mehdi Mojtabavi's Eslimi Hanger works, and then tell us: What do you think of this new hanger design? Share your thoughts in the comments!

[Hat Tip: Co.Design]

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[RRtreerat]

11:06 PM on 05/23/2012

This fellow never learned how to hang a t-shirt or sweater with a traditional hanger and not have to stretch the neck opening. Besides sweaters are better off not being put on a hanger.

[KyDude]

10:04 PM on 05/23/2012

The perfect hanger for the closet with 10 items.

[mskittykat1326]

03:12 PM on 05/23/2012

I like the design. It's interesting. Love the "snap on" hook as it prevents the hangers from popping off the bar... I am wondering about the width however. If it's intent is to get you to hang more clothing, then the added width will take away needed space to accommodate those extra pieces. Also, how will they incorporate the ability to hang pants as the old straight bar does?

[coffeeamust]

12:35 PM on 05/23/2012

It does nothing to solve the problem of being too long and going into the sleeves, leaving a hump at the top of the sweater sleeve. Buy children's hangers. Much easier solution.

[Carbon Forteetoo]

11:33 AM on 05/23/2012

Another chunk of plastic, made from a non-renewable resource, that will probably end up in the stomach of a whale, after it's discarded and dumped into the ocean.

[BamaMama]

11:16 AM on 05/23/2012

The use of a hanger like this presupposes that one has access to limitless closet bar space. The design is clever, but the hanger itself (the green portion) is quite wide. If the designers can address this issue, they might have a winner.

[karystos]

04:49 AM on 05/23/2012

Meh...

[RealityMyFriend]

12:46 AM on 05/23/2012

If it was made out of wood I would get it... cedar. But nope.

[Ground control]

10:16 PM on 05/22/2012

But what will I do if I lock my keys in my car?

This will never work.

[DRaymond]

10:13 PM on 05/22/2012

Kind of a clever design, but you may notice that he says that it cost no more than a 'nice' hanger would.  

Who spends 'nice hangar' money to hang up a T-shirt?  So I don't see huge sales.

[Npn Npn]

09:22 PM on 05/22/2012

Maybe we can get these guys to redesign Wall Street.

[ludichris212]

09:12 PM on 05/22/2012

Yawn. He can't build a better mousetrap, so he built a better coat-hanger? yay.