Download The Blade Handbook
A newly updated visual Blade Bible of a shared lingo for the future of a wind industry is now available to everyone!
We in partnership with Bladena have recently released a newly updated The Blade Handbook™ - a powerful tool focused on aligning communication between different actors within the R&D of wind turbine blades. A new edition is an additional outcome of the 3rd wind turbine blade research project called CORTIR, where a large international network of wind turbine owners, manufacturers, universities and technology companies were collaborating on finding the ways to minimize costs and risks for wind turbine maintenance.
The handbook grew by half in content volume turning into an all-in-one, yet easily consumed fundamental term and concept base for the blade experts and newcomers alike.
Furthermore, The Blade Handbook™ is nominated as a finalist at Danish Design Awards 2020 within the category Message Understood. Meaning a solution that successfully delivers a message powerfully, simply and beautifully.
The Jury: It is not an easy task to create a common language for the many different stakeholders and disciplines in the development of wind turbine blades. But it achieves The Blade Handbook ™ , developed over a 7-year period. The handbook is a well-developed way of communicating complex issues to a consortium and a rare example of clear, visually documented collaboration. As one juror said: "It looks more accessible than the average manual for kitchen appliances." "Pretty amazing," said another.
The print book shouldn’t cost the Earth. The Blades Handbook is issued at Nordic Swan eco-labeled print house that not only use certified sustainable paper, ink and toner, but also utilizes eco-current from Norwegian hydropower plants. For a paperback, please contact Bladena or us.
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KIRT x THOMSEN is a design and innovation studio. We use design thinking and visual communication tools to accelerate the innovation processes by transforming complex technical knowledge into a shared visual language that is easy to understand for all.