BangBang handle, a unique door handle rightly in the same shapes as pistols. Hence whenever you open the door, you may feel that you’re holding a pistol…Isn’t that exciting? And that’s not dangerous at all.
Utilizing a photochromic screen-print composition, designer Solenne Morigeaud has constructed the “Hide-and-seek with the Missing” floor that will reveal a vivid color palette whenever exposed to UV light. By designing such a color-changing floor, Solenne aims to bring the public with the awareness of many floral species extinction threat, as well as to inform them the importance of preservation of nature.
Something old but classic is back and what we’re to argue today is this Magnetic Soap Holder, which many people may have seen in their childhood… Press magnet into bar, and it can then “stick” onto the stainless steel holder to keep your soap dry and clean, simply easy and convenient as that!
Well, seemingly there’re no excuses for a messy room anymore, because the dustbin can now walk to you if you’re just too lazy to walk to throw the rubbish… By operating the garbage can with a remote control, you could get it at hand immediately, and that’s so sweet!
As there is extremely limited space for designing and decorating in our houses, we may avert our eyes onto the ground or even under the floor… Thus these spiral wine cellars are created. Available in several patterns, the Spiral Cellar can be built anywhere you’d like, from your kitchen to your office, and other places. To ensure the cellar an optimum temperature for wine, the Spiral Cellar also uses the company’s air flow system with the earth’s natural surroundings to provide insulation. Basically one cellar can store up to 1,900 bottles of wine, and the price may vary depending on your needs.
Still thinking about your Facebook while you’re taking a bath? If you do love the Facebook so much, you may get interested in this creative shower curtain that looks just like a Facebook profile: wow, it even uses your real head as the Shower Head, bit of creepy!
The Roman Colosseum is the place that I visit everyday… That’s not kidding, because what I’m talking about is actually my new hot tub that resembles the famous building, instead of the real one.
Any good idea about towel racks? To redesign their shapes, coat them with unique colors or endow them with new functions? Of course the last one is our option, so why not have a look at this Breeze Rack, a 2011 red dot design concept winner? It’s a multifunctional towel rack, serving as a hair drier, a bathroom ventilator and a sterilizer except for hanging towels. In other words, almost everything you would need to use in a bathroom can be found in the Breeze Rack, isn’t that great?!
“To push or to pull?” Almost every time I need to open a door, I ask myself that question. Not because I’m not clever enough, but in fact it is all because the door handles are not clever enough, since they cannot show us the directions clearly. But forget that, as here comes a clever one, “Arrow” door handle that makes “pull” or “push” directions visible to us. Just follow its “arrow”, and you’ll never pull or push a knob in a wrong way.
Because of higher and higher social pressure pushing us forward to survive, we humans are actually suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder, one symptom of which is to ask ourselves repeatedly whether or not we’ve turned off the electricity or locked off the door… Stop that, as our life can become easier, if with the help of Off- Door Handle. It’s a 2011 Red Dot Design Concept winner, allowing users to switch off gas supply and electricity by rotating the dial and flipping it back to activate them. So how do you like the concept?
How could we bring a new life into our house? According to Philip Watts Design, we should firstly install the house with a spine, or more exactly a spin-shaped staircase… So what do you think?
Honestly I’ve completely forgotten the invention of matches after the day there is cigar lighter on the world, but quite surprisingly I still wanted to have a try of these Stormproof Matches once I saw several keywords about them: windproof, waterproof and stormproof, burning for up to 15 seconds… That’s really attractive, and all those features make the matches especially useful for camping, fishing, boating and emergency conditions.
Italy’s largest producer of brushes “Venice” now brings us with its biodegradable brushes and combs made from cellulose acetate that is derived from cotton. Free of dyes, these new brushes appear in a slightly milky transparency, making it nice and comfortable to see. Moreover, the brushes and combs are durable too, featuring a good ability to server you for a long time.
I’m fond of house cleaning, but seldom including the window cleaning. You know, though it’s easy to make its inside clean, it’s really hard to clean the outside, especially when we’re living on a high floor… Thus comes Junkyung Kim and Yonggu Do’s TwoFaced Window.
Once viewing the world with the children’s eyes, we may realize that everything convenient to the adults are actually resulting in troubles to them: the door handle is too high to reach, the desk is too high to climb on and still the peephole is too high for them to check out who is standing outside the door… Everything seems too high to kids, thus we need to lower them down, such as designing a special peephole for children to use.
