During the last tens and hundreds of years, almost all the designer and manufactures were devoted to improving the functions and appearances of shoes but failed to push the development of shoelaces to a new level…Fortunately they’re now stepping forward, and obviously that’s a quite big step: the shoelaces are completely converted, allowing the users to easily slip them in and out of shoes, with several different colors available!
Rainy days, romantic days, many couples are fond of hanging out on a wet day to experience something romantic…But their good mood may disappear almost in one second as they find their shoes, clothes turned wet due to the wet umbrella. Fortunately we have the Inverted Umbrella now. Currently a concept, the umbrella can fold inside (which is always dry) out after use so as to prevent water splashes, while without changing its fundamental functions.
Only one key in the pocket, usually we do that when outside for a walk or jog just because we try to keep the most important thing safe. However, is your key safe enough, in your pocket? Not really, as it may slide out of the pocket and fall somewhere else. It’s time to try the Gokey silicon wrist band now. It’s a clever gadget that can conceal your key safely and then lets you wear it on your wrist. Available in several colors, the Gokey is currently a Kickstarter project and you can donate $15 to receive one.
Does the elevator’s wall of an office building located in Great Portland Street, London taste good? Possibly, as it is world’s first lick-able wall that comprises of 1,325 Jaffa Cakes! Completely unbelievable and surprising, the “delicious” wallpaper just wants to offer the passengers a pleasing taste during their boring trip with an elevator. Although bit of unacceptable, this Lick-able Wall Paper is still expected to appear in many other places in the future.
Five meters high from the ground, the dinning pod built on top of a tree is located in Soneva Kiri, a luxury holiday destination off the south-east coast of the Gulf of Siam. Except for the surrounding beautiful sceneries you can view from the restaurant, you can even get served by a “flying” waiter in the pod too, which is really unique and exciting.
Designed by Japan-based artists, these Flower Matches give us another reason why we always love creative designs: each of them is made with branches instead of regular wood pieces, thus to resemble the shape of trees or flowers. It’s indeed a simple concept, but it’s really amazing.
Soooooo dangerous… That’s just what I thought of the moment I saw this floating office. It is designed by Schmidt Hammer Lassen for Nykredit headquarters building in Copenhagen, Denmark, suspended 50 feet above the ground and seems very unique from both indoors and outdoors. But for those who don’t want to challenge, you’d better merely view them on the internet rather than visit them for real.
What’s this, in your opinion? The answer wouldn’t come to you if you stare at it too closely this time, so we suggest you view it again from a longer distance…
Forget the bothersome problem that your apartment is too small, because you can still enjoy a convenient and colorful life with the creative assembling furniture. Put forward by Robert van Embricqs, the table and chair each features some unique structure in the center, which allows them to stay flat when not in use or keep steady enough to hold you or your items.
During these days with a cellphone or laptops, we humans are no longer relying on the traditional ways to leave messages, but it’s still nice to get this “Record me” home recorder designed by Luc van Hoeckel. It’s a simple and practical concept that allows you to leave messages with sound, your own voice. That means any messages you leave to others are more personal, all with your own styles, so it must be more interesting to either leave a message or checking a message.
Why hasn’t anyone thought of the good idea before? Created on the back windows of dirty cars, Scott Wade’s collection of dirty pictures (they’re not dirty, actually) look just so wonderful that you even don’t want to wash your dirty cars anymore.
Design easy and use easy, Devraj Bhadra’s ISI Desk Clamp is an innovative concept that offers us a really simple way to manage various electronics cables. The flexible steel clamp can be placed on the edge of your table, keeping your computer and cellphone power cables neatly while never taking up you too much (or extra) space.
Using discarded car and bicycle parts he collected everywhere, Bangkok-based artist Roongrojna Sangwongprisarn has created a perfectly-detailed Predator-inspired motorcycles that are drivable too. Have a close look at its stunning details and florid exterior coating – who would ever believe the vehicle is made with old bike parts? Though there’s no information about its speed, we’re still quite interested in the motorcycle: when riding such a cool vehicle, who would need speed, right? Let’s just ride it slowly, and attracting everybody in the street.
Your favorite books, your favorite designs, your favorite furniture…Any of your paper books can be sorted by this Check Bookshelf designed by Jongho Park.
Named after the famous Italian medieval traveler Odoric of Pordenone, the “Odorico” expandable caravan looks good, functions good, and announced especially ideal for travel use. Its unique expandable architecture makes it transformable too, so it may change its shape and function in different ways according to its user’s needs. But pity it’s not real yet, still waiting for some company to license it and put it into production.
The tide rises, the tide falls. The flower blossoms, the flower falls away. Every day on the surface of the Hudson River, you can see a series of giant Tide Flowers built around abandoned posts of long-gone piers- they blossom wilt at low tide and open fully at high tide, creating a beautiful scene that demonstrates the movements of water as well.
Located in Dresden, Germany, the small colorful house is built with some funnels on the wall and they’ll create charming (really?!) musical sound whenever the rain comes. Due to that interesting and unique idea, the wall is also one of the most enjoyable attractions in Dresden’s student district in the new town.
Love playing with your iPad, but never mind what kind of sleeve or stand it is using? No, I couldn’t stand my iPad wearing something ugly, so I decide to buy it this smart Stand Sleeve (if the gadget will finally come into the market). It features a fashionable appearance, with a combination of bright white and red. Besides, the design utilizes an ingenious folding technique & magnets too, to conveniently shift it between a sleeve and a stand.
What have you seen from these Optical Illusion Paintings made by Ukrainian artist Oleg Shuplyak, a second picture within one big one? That’s rightly the true answers. By cleverly combining different elements together, the artist has successfully created two distinct images in each painting, bringing the viewers with a doubled joy.
How popular do you think the Facebook is? Normally we’re no longer contented with using it for most time of the day, as we’re in big favor of sleeping with Facebook! You got it? We need a Facebook Bed simply the same as this one designed by Tomislav Zvonaric. It’s amazing, combining almost all features of the Facebook website, but so pity that it’s merely a concept at the time.
Life is music, thus we all love symphony instead of monotony. Keeping that in mind too, a Dutch designer Jeriel Bobbe has created the ‘Suitcase Symphony’ using several rearrangeable wooden panels that each features a ridged surface, to take the place of monotonous floor in airports. Assembled together, the panels will produce a particular music composition as people pulling their suitcases through on them. Even though the music created by these panels is not that fabulous as those produced by an instrument, it indeed sounds more pleasant than the monotony of airports.
Can you sit on water? Of course you can, but merely in science fictions or in your dreams… However, it’s really an interesting idea to make water serve as a stool, and thus comes these Manual Stools by ALLT that utilize buckets and elastic foams to build the furniture.
Great music is just like the beautiful sunrise, as they both bring big shocks to us, and that’s rightly the main idea of the DVD packaging design by Mucho. The package opens up like a book, gradually revealing the DVD through the folds, isn’t that fabulous?
3D Cabinet created by cleverly arranging bright yellow color and plain black color… Quite simple concept, but really amazing art.
Angel Mommy Pack is a smart design especially good for babies and their moms. It’s a clever combination of a breast pump and a feeding bottle, which not only makes it easy for moms to get their breast milk into the bottle for storage but also promises a safe reheating and easy cleaning so as to reduce the housework a mom needs to do.
Honestly we seldom see laptop bags redesigned with many new functions, not to mention a bag that actually serves as a charger as well. This amazing design comes from Brad Ascalon, which utilizes wireless charging technology to convert a laptop bag into a charging machine. Now have a look at the bag: its inner tray is in fact the charger and its carrying strap actually contains USB male connector at one end and a plug on the other. So once connect the strap end to another computer or an electrical outlet, and then you can get your laptop recharged wirelessly. That’s not all! The same USB port allows the laptop bag to work as a thumb drive on its own too.
After quite a long time without introducing any innovative packaging designs, it’s really exciting to share with you 9 interesting packages at one time. They’re created for different products including milk, toys, pizza or shoes, but they’re all functional to attract the customers and therefore to promote the sales.
There’re too many yoga centers in your city and you don’t know how to beat others off? Well, have a look at this creative business card Kapil Bhimekar designed for yoga instructor Danielle Abisaab and you may get some good inspiration. It involves the twisting of body in yoga exercises, featuring flexible paper printed with personal information on both sides, thus the users need to twist the card to read the entire message. Just simple as that, but the result is quite awesome, coz enquiries and new students kept flowing to Danielle Abisaab after the release of this card.
Magic time… By combining two round plates, one thread and several simple patterns together, D-BROS from Japan has cleverly created some interesting but impressive scenes including the “a horse drawing the cart”, “a cycling man” and “a weightlifter”.
Draw a picture with the tissue, to let you see how super water-absorbable the new paper roll is… Every detail, though actually are finished with the tissue on fruit juice or milk, seems to have been created with a functional pen.
Although computers are still designed without emotion or spiritual excitement, they now at least can read your emotions. The new computer system is developed by researchers from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, who have looked at 60 acoustic parameters including the tenor of a user’s voice, the speed at which one speaks, and the length of any pauses, in order to let the computers understand the change of your emotions. Besides, based on predictions of where the conversation may lead, the system can even adapt its speech accordingly and therefore to go through a good conversation with the human users.
“Catch” features a temperature-resistant construction, performing well to prevent the grease or sauce from splattering whenever you rest it flat on a pan or use it as a barrier around the pan. When not in use, simply fold it up and put it in the drawer, and that wouldn’t require too much space.
“The Bridge School”, running through an old village in Fujian Province in China to connect the two sides, wins Li Xiaodong this year’s “Aga Khan Awards” due to its special structure and multi functions. Contrast to the old village is full of stone-built houses, “The Bridge School” utilizes modern and frugal steel and bamboo as main materials, giving the building a refreshing and stylish look. Except for serving as a school, the structure also doubles as a public library and a performance space as well.
Everything is gonna to be easy with creative ideas and concepts from genius designers. And this time you’ll find binding writing paper or print paper is quite a simple thing with Seonyoung Choi’s Hole Punch Binder. Implied by its name, the conceptual device is a clever combination of a punch machine and a binder, allowing you to directly punch a hole while filing the sheets.
How small do you think an electric vehicle would be? Scientists from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands have created the world’s smallest electric vehicle that is made from a synthetic molecule. The EV comes with four motors too, and powered by electrons to make it move forward. There’re some limitations to this micro-EV of course, as it could only operate at low temperatures and the molecules need to be kept still by a vacuum before they are activated.
How thin do you think the package of a daily disposable contact lens could be? In my opinion, the “Magic” from Japan’s first and largest contact lens and care product manufacturer Menicon is rightly the answer we’re looking for.
Another design that we would say “why nobody has come up with it earlier”… It is the 30-degree Slope Bowl by HO Chang Da, who creates the gadget especially for people with trembling hands. With a 30 degree slope at one end, the bowl can still stand on table steadily even when your hands suddenly tremble. Also, its wooden handle makes taking up hot bowl no longer a difficult thing. That’s so sweet!
Hello you housewives, what about your dinners today? What, the pepper fall onto the table again?! Well, you should throw those traditional mills away and have a try with this no-spill one. It features a movable cap connected to the handle, thus the cap will protect pepper spilling when you stop working with the device.
Phill, completed by Romanian designers Nuca Studio in Bucharest, is a meeting place for the entire family. It has a playground, a multipurpose room and a small café at the ground floor, and the restaurant on the upper floor. Thus before dinners, kids can play games and parents can have some coffee on the ground floor, without needing to wait through a boring time. The house is delicately decorated with bright colors and animated patterns, which make Phill also a nice place for people to relax themselves.
My passion for cleanliness and organization finally drives me closer to this Corner Power Strip designed by Herald J. Ureña – Umaña. It features a triangular composition, which allows the gadget to be neatly placed in any corners. Plus, its clever design also ensures the power cord to face the direction of the outlet, so as to make it really convenient for use.
