tilde by mauro soddu from italy

I focused my attention for a month on "how" the doors are opened, pointing out the whole body of the person who opens (or closes) the door rather than only his hand.
I noticed that when you already know the opening direction (and therefore if pushing or pulling) the body is oriented for going forward or backward.

the body is never parallel to the door and the arm perpendicular to the door.
it doesn’t matter if you are left or right handed. if the door handle is on the left you will open it as general rule with the right-hand (and viceversa).
I also noticed that when you don’t know the opening direction you could have some difficulties in understanding how to open it. someone compensates this problem hanging with tape a sheet of paper and writing "push" or "pull" on it.

I wanted to solve these problems by establishing that the two handles must be asymmetrical to the axis of the door. the handle to pull forms an obtuse angle. the handle to push forms an acute angle.
in this way, my body already understands how to orient itself and my brain decides if pulling or pushing.

tilde has a linear and basic shape. tilde opens the way to a new generation of handles. tilde is simple but clever.