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.
Turn on a bulb, to display the interesting process of a bubble getting bigger and then disappearing… Really cool lamp designs from Italy!
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.
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.
A car installed with a wood-burning stove inside?? That sounds really crazy, but that’s innovative as well, indeed. Designed to fight against the cold weather in Swiss, Pascal Prokop has built a stove in his 1990 Volvo 240 station wagon and even got an operating permit from the Swiss technical inspection authority.
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.
The further the world steps forward, the farther we’re kept away from the nature. But fortunately there’re still many designers who are devoted to come up with natural, eco-friendly things, like Jarbas Lopes’ “Natural Fiber Bicycle”. It’s an organic-seeming mode of transportation, with woven fiber coating around the body of a bike. Named as “Cicloviaérea”, the series includes bicycles of different shapes, which are both enjoyable and usable as well.
What is the best method to relax you after a daytime full of work? The answer must be: taking a shower. However the problem is that some of us, especially those taking on energy-costing jobs, really wouldn’t like to stand under a shower. Thus they may need the design by Donbracht. It is a horizontal shower that allows the users to completely lie down under the device, utilizing six water bars to offer water of different temperatures and weights to leave the users a fully relaxed body.
Although I’ve known of many people going to climb a mountain as they might try to live away from the city, I seldom heard of any people climbing up and down a mountain with trains. Why do we need a train going through the mountain, since commonly a mountain is deemed as places for exercise or fitness? Probably it’s simply because “some people need it”! In Haifa, Israel, the Carmel Mountain is rightly built with a 1.8 km long train track, which allows two trains to run up and down for people to enjoy a comfortable “climbing”. With only six stations, the Carmel Mountain subway is nearly one of the shortest subway systems in the world.
“So what is the weather today?” Wait, wait, I’ll soon tell you something about the temperature with my hands to feel the Cryoscope. It’s not for kidding, as industrial design student Robb Godshaw’s Cryoscope is indeed an intelligent device that allows you to feel the weather with hands rather than to read cryptic icons with eyes. The Cryoscope is made from a heat sink, cooling fan, and a Peltier element, which are all housed within an aluminum cube to reflect tomorrow’s predicted air temperature by heating up or cooling down. In case that the cube may get too hot for you to touch, the designer also built the Cryoscope with a red and blue colored LED to provide a visual cue to the temperature change.
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.
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.
Can the movement of sand get kept forever? Well, that’s obviously not a question at all, since we all have a camera. But the industrial design student Leetal Rivlin has managed to capture the movement of sand in another way, by freezing it into a unique bowl. Hand made by mixing the grains of sand with an adhesive, the sand bowl not only features several layers outside to assimilate the movement of sand, but is durable enough to last a long time as decorative articles.
Climbing up the rock … to live in the Barcelona Rock Hostel designed by Polish architecture firm UGO is one of my goals for the next following years (if the concept will finally come into reality). The proposed building will feature real rocks on its exterior, while coming with fifty rooms, movie theater, spa, cafe, swimming pool, gym, bar and even shops inside. Thus whenever the rock climbers need a rest, they may either check into the Barcelona Rock Hostel or simply spent the night on the “mountain” using special equipment. So do you like it? Hopefully we’ll soon meet there in the Barcelona Rock Hostel.
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.
Hard to raise fish, but what’s much harder is to clean the fish bowl, because cleaning the tanks seems always dirty and messy… So why not have a try with the NoClean Aquariums? It’s actually a self-cleaning desktop aquarium invented based on the laws of physics, taking only 60 seconds to work while needing no electricity or filters. Simply pour some water in and then you’ll see the aquarium clean itself, just easy and convenient as that!
In order to help the visually handicapped people better find their ways independently, a team of researchers from the National University of Singapore have collaborated an electronic cane that lets its users explore through unfamiliar ways with no difficulty.
Honestly I don’t know who invented brushes, but I know clearly it is Valencia-based designers CuldeSac that will push brushed onto a new level, one that may feature evolutionary value. In this creative collection, each brush and roller comes with a unique function, allowing the users and artists to do something that used to be difficult or impossible to them, such as painting on the ceiling or stamping out distinctive patterns with a brush.
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.
What is the best car in your imagination? Possibly it should be smart, fashionable, high-tech, high-efficiency but low-cost? Then what you need is rightly the futuristic cars from Mazda, who has come up with an “i-Eloop” system harnessing the energy generated each time the vehicle slows down and thus to reduce your money spent on fuels.
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.
With everything, such as the cellphones and the tablet, turns to become much thinner and lighter than before, the accessories made for them is gonna in the same trend too. From Giesecke & Devrient, the new nano-SIM now comes with a smaller size, measuring merely 12mm x 9mm, which is 60 percent smaller than the classic model. Still, the new SIM is 15% thinner too. That’s quite exciting news as we may soon get everything thin and lightweight. But is that a good thing? I don’t know.
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 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.
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.
Anything that comes with an outlook nothing to do with its functions is usually interesting. And the Pistol Hairdryer shown here is rightly a good example. It is shaped like a pistol, however shots no bullets but hot air instead. If possible, I’d like to try it.
Yaps I love tea very much, but I never imagined squeezing tea bags to enjoy the ever last drop… It’s bit of weird, if without the help of Tèo Tea Spoon. The innovative gadget makes squeezing tea bags an elegant behavior, simply pull the thread of tea bag through the hollow handle, gently squeeze it and then done. No more water left on tables while you’re removing the bags from the cup, but merely sweet tea ready in cup for you to enjoy.
Bregenz is a city in the west of Austria, where the famous Bregenzer Performing Arts Festival will be held in July or August every year. Except for the fantastic opera performance, what make Bregenz known to the world also includes these creative stage designs. Located on the shore of Lake Constance in Bregenz, every stage for Performing Arts Festival is floating with various themes.
You know, design is sometimes so simple. The innovation of this water bottle merely lies in the neck that has been shifted from the top to a 45-degree angle. But the result turns out to be amazing: firstly, it’s more convenient to refill your bottle from a water cooler; secondly, it allows the users to drink in a more comfortable pose, no longer requiring them to have their faces pointed skyward. So how do you like it? The idea is really fantastic, in my opinion.
While most designers are busying adding more and more elements into their artworks, Japan-based Yuki Matsueda has, however, managed to let some elements escape from his art pieces. The result seems quite amazing… A vivid 3D image is successfully created and all the elements are believed to be more shocking than those stay still on paper.
There are no two identical leaves in the world, especially after they’re cut into different shapes. They seem not gorgeous, but really elaborate indeed. Wish you would appreciate the unique sense of beauty these leaves bring to us.
Cheese Pencils are interesting packaging design for The Deli Garage’s cheeses. Also come along with them is a grater shaped like a pencil sharpener. As a result, you could easily have the cheese sprinkled onto the dish with the sharpener.
As you open the wedding invitation card, the proverbial knot is then tied to turn the bride and the groom into one…
Totally beyond imagination… With subtle design and delicate carving, Wim Delvoye has transformed unused tires into amazing sculptures. In his series “Pneu” (French for tire), each piece comes with a unique pattern and they all look so great.
