Archive for the ‘Design’ Category
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Modern Luxury Bed Design
HiCan is a company that designs one of the most exciting luxury beds on the market. The company name, HiCan, is a hybrid of the terms High Fidelity Canopy, and boats an intriguing slogan of “Enjoy your Bed Like Never Before”. The bed has an abundance of bells and whistles – there is really no reason to get out of bed in the morning if you’re ...
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Fake Window Blinds
If you live in a small, dark, hole of an apartment, you’re in luck! Makoto Hirahara’s Bright Blind simulates a window where none exists. The unit is made of electroluminescent sheets (EL), wood and plastic, and is sure to brighten the room and one’s spirits too. The artificial blind functions just like a “real” set of louvered blinds – you can turn the plastic stick to ...
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Ecco: Electric Mobile Camper Van Of The Future
Design collective NAU has released a concept that looks to combine outdoor adventure with green technology with a new electric vehicle idea called the Ecco. A mobile camper that doubles as an all-electric car, the Ecco is one of the smarter concepts we’ve seen lately. The Ecco’s idea of space-saving is a lot like a mico-home and car combination we recently featured, but keeps in mind ...
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The Hiroshima Lamp
Italian industrial designer, Luca Veneri, worked with 3D printing technologies in order to create this alluring table lamp that is shaped like a mushroom cloud explosion. The “Nuke Lamp” is available for purchase and is delivered in two parts – the 3D printed piece as well as the Lamp kit with bulb and stand. The lamp’s complex surfaces were created using real fluid dynamic stimulations BUY ...
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Stunning Circular Tower In Taiwan
What will they think of next? Innovation and creativity are definitely coursing through the veins of the team at Chicago-based architectural firm, STL Architects, and the proof is in the making. STL Architects has designed the concept behind the 320-meter-tall (1,049 feet) circular building that will call Taichung City in Taiwan its home. The structure is intended to be used as a hub for leisure and ...
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Bullet Wall Hook
This wall hook is sure to make you look twice! The bullet wall hook was designed by Brazilian-based product designer, Belo Horizonte. He claims that his works are heavily concept-based, and all have historical meaning – this set of bullet hooks is no exception. The hooks (not so subtly) signify violence and urban war in “times like these”. Horizonte claims that this product is not mean ...
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Heart-Shaped Wine Carafe
A Milan-based design showroom called PaolaC, released a design challenge during Milan’s design week to the students of Bozen-Bolzano University to create a tableware collection informed by food, health and eating habits; and that is exactly what up-and-coming designer, Liviana Osti, did. Osti was born in Trento, Italy, in 1989 and was studying design at the time of the competition. The carafe, entitled “Cuore” (which means ...
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Weird Steampunk Minions
Artist, Joseph F. Drust, has developed a wide range of vinyl “kitbashed” sculptures called Steampunk Minions that boast a seriously WHOA-worthy style. The creations plug into your computer via USB hookup and some of them light up, react to music and (our favourite:) play old-school Nintendo NES games. The sculptures are made out of recycled operational parts including magnets, tesla coils, USB drives and LCD screens. ...
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Ing-Q: Single Seater Pod Car
Commonly mistaken for a giant baby monitor or personal massage device – this curvaceous bubble-shaped product is actually one of the most innovative car designs we have seen in a very long time. The kudos go out to 23 year old designer, Xiaowu Huang – a fourth year student from Hainan, China who is attending the Wuhan University of Technology. Huang is studying Automotive Support Engineering ...
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QlockTwo: Coolest Clock In The World
QLOCKTWO makes you pause and allows a different view of time. The typographic front combines the moment with the written word and makes it a statement. „It is half past eight.“ This clock forms a perfect square and seems to hover freely at the wall. A matrix with symmetrically arranged characters constitutes another square in the interior. Some of these characters shine in pure white to ...
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Egg Carton Chandelier
Industrial Interactive Designer, Federico Otero, has created a fabulous chandelier called the ORIGEN out of the every day egg carton. The chandelier boasts excellent luminosity thanks to the varying thicknesses of the egg carton material, as well as it’s proximity to the light bulb. Otero is a Peruvian-based designer and is the recipient of numerous international design awards.
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Steam Mug Humidifier
If you are the kind of person who refills your coffee or tea mug with drinking water, you’re going to love this. This mug is used for consuming beverages just like any mug, but it does more… it’s actually a novelty humidifier that is perfect for any office space. Designed by Young-Suk Kim in order to make people more aware of how precious water is, this ...
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AIRSHIP ARCHANGEL: AMBULANCE OF THE FUTURE
Airship Archangel is an emergency response, disaster relief airship, designed by Thomas Grimm, (principle inventor) with design support by Reindy Allendra and technical, engineering support of Dr. Gregory Smedley. Archangel was designed to enhance the capabilities of emergency response organizations in providing emergency medical services and emergency power, and in transporting personnel, supplies, equipment and other materials to increasingly numerous and dispersed locations around the world ...
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SKY HIGH BICYCLE
The crazies over at Atomic Zombie have designed and built this outrageous bicycle that uses a step ladder to create a sky-high bicycle seat. The bicycle is called the Sky Walker, and thanks to its rigid frame, it is able to accommodate several passengers on the ladder – the bike can carry as many people that can squeeze on. And now, for the fun part. Atomic ...
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RICH DOG HOUSE MANSIONS
The doggy lover in all of us only wants the best for our furry companions, so why not splurge on a luxury dog house mansion? Different designers are responsible for the architecture of each doggy mansion, the prices are all equally extravagant, ranging from 2000 € (the modern design of the Hunderhaus Cubix) to £6,100 (the Colonial doghouse), but the most extravagant house of them all ...
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TYPEWRITER WAFFLEMAKER
Another great product courtesy of Designhead that encourages re-purposing and recycling old goods. In this case, a Corona typewriter was converted into a functioning waffle maker, but wait, there’s more! Not only will you be able to bake delicious waffles, but they will be keyboard-shaped waffles – an ironic parody of the type writer tool (that not so ironically looks very similar to a regular waffle).
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IMPERIA GP: THE FUTURE OF LUXURY CARS
IMPERIA HERITAGE With wings separate from the engine hood and its fluid lines, the Imperia GP celebrates the return to a concept where elegance is no longer sacrificed for efficiency, and where these two parameters are harmoniously integrated. Its vertical radiator grille is a fine example of this. Although it might suggest an aerodynamic weakness, it houses a mobile inlet device that regulates the flow of ...
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UTOPIA: THE YACHT ISLAND
BMT Nigel Gee, a subsidiary of the BMT Group, has announced its latest design, developed in partnership with Yacht Island Design. Project Utopia, an avant‐garde vision of a future concept breaks the traditional naval architectural mould which the market has come to expect and offers a truly unique outlook free from any conventional design constraints. James Roy, Yacht Design Director at BMT Nigel Gee explains: “Visions ...
