Archive for February, 2007
Chameleon lamp
Fantastic lamp that changes color to match any color you place near it. A traditional bulb provides regular white light, whereas a LED ring around it projects a selected color into the shade, at the same time preventing the white light of diffusion with the projected color.
Design: Philips Design via YankoDesign.com
Medusa lamp
Medusa means ‘jellyfish’ in Spanish. Made from laser-etched Corian, which catches the form of this acquatic creature. A flexible element of colored light can be added, facilitating lamp mood’s change.
Design: Esposed.eu.com
Lego lamp
This concept lamp brings people together in their creativity. The connections are made from magnets, which allow electricity to pass by. Each cuve has one LED lamp inside. So just play around and connect your lamp however you want to.
Design: Sasinan Suthayalai via YankoDesign.com
Light lamp
Light lamp is lifted by helium inside the baloon lamp, which can float around for ten days. The lamp has a LED in it, which can be controlled in different modes - flashing or not. Many light lamps look like a cool party thing.
Design: Luc Schouten
Solar lamp
This solar powered lamp absorbs sun light and then releases it in the evening. You come home from work, and the light is already there. Very useful for electricity circuit breaks.
Design: Maria Hamprecht via YankoDesign
Disposable chandelier
Stuart Haygart has designed this Dispisable Chandelier with 416 disposable plastic wine glasses, lit with a pink fluorescent light source. A smaller version of 280 glasses is also available.
Design: Stuart Haygart via Inhabitat.com
Aton luminaires
This lamp is made of clay and has cool projection to the ceiling.
Design: Aton
Lumen Tree
OK, the only lamp, whose price we know - it’s 59 bucks. Lumen Tree is an oil lamp, which projects tree shadows as it is lit. The farther Lumen is from the wall, the larger the shadow. As the flame flickers the shadow moves about organically.
Design: Adam Frank via Generate
February 27th, 2007
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“Seen from distance the wallpaper seems simply an antique baroque motive, but coming closer you will discover that thousands of ants are crawling on the walls creating this baroque wallpaper…”
This ANT’IQUE wallpaper is a winner project of “New Walls, Please!” 2007. ANT’IQUE wallpaper has been created by young and talented team GAMplusFRATESI.
GAMplusFRATESI is a designer union, including Stine Gam from Denmark and Enrico Fratesi from Italy. The artists claim that this union of two countries helps them find their project ideas. With their design they wish to tell a story that finds inspiration from the simple everyday gestures to the deeper parts of our cultures in a fusion of technology, poetry and tradition. GAMplusFRATESI have a great success all over the world, they participate in numerous exhibitions all over the world: NewYork, Las Vegas, Berlin ,London, Milano, Copenhagen.
More of GAMplusFRATESI works
Another artist so famous with his ants motives is Peter Kogler. Ants seem to really fascinate him: ant walls, ant floors, ant pictures, ant wallpapers - ants all around you!
Peter Kogler is among the internationally most successful Austrian artists of his generation. Despite invitations to participate in numerous prestigious exhibitions of the last decade - the Venice Biennale (1995) or the documenta in Kassel (1992 and 1997), for example - there has been no comprehensive presentation of his work until now.
More of Peter Kogler’s works
February 25th, 2007
There are not many things two people can use at the same time. Though, there are some, for instance, tea bags for two:
..which come in a tea cup for two.
From MeetSebastian.com
Or another version of a cup for two by Tonerico Inc.
There are also Smittens for two by designer Wendy Feller. The mittens are handmade in Seattle.
Yours for $34.00
Then there is Tandem umbrella, also for being inseparable. Produced with Jasmine Raznahan.
Tandem Umbrella
February 22nd, 2007
Another part of realistic looking ads, as a good tradition.
Ad: Towels with hands and feet printed on them…well, you get the idea.
Agency: Lowe Mena
Ad: Posters for Vida Urgente, an organization devoted to preventing drunk driving. The text on the poster says: ‘There are better things to hit on in the evening. Don’t drink and drive’.
Agency: Novacentro
Ad: Always fresh fish by Global Fish
Agency: Leo Burnett
Ad: Hoovers can be really powerful
Agency: Miami Ad School
Ad: Durex comes in all sizes
Agency: Unknown
Ad: Dog food is so tasty! Dogs will do anything for it
Agency: McCann Ericksson
Ad: Canadian hurdler Perdita Felicien and distance runner Bernard Lagat in Nike ad.
Agency: Taxi Toronto
Ads: Cats lick soap with milk
Agencies: Unknown
Ad: Don’t want to watch the ugly naked guy? Just pull the curtains. Moma curtains ad.
Agency: Unknown
Ad: Wonderbra ad. Speaks for itself.
Agency: Unknown
February 13th, 2007
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Crockery is not something we notice on the table, but wait till you see this great crockery!
Thelermont Hupton has found a new way for using crockery, when you are out of the table. You can use earthenware knee and lap mugs watching TV and party around with a thumb bowl.
It’s a rocket science
If you have kids, you must know, how hard it sometimes is to persuade them to finish their meals. Now it is much easier with this bowl: feel it with something liquid and your kid will save the sinking house.
Such plane will also help your kid stay full.
Design by Singulier.com
A whole designer competition took place recently. It was called “Ceramics for breakfast” and it is just fascinating, what brilliant ideas people had:
Do you have something to say?
design by : xinhe jiang + Zhuo Wang from france
Some more bowls for kids (and for grownups who know what’s fun)
design by : chaiyapruk tongcham + panatda manurasda from thailand
Morning coffee and its shadow
design by : tony wong + renderings from thomas tellier from singapore
Hanging people breakfast bowl
design by : alice mara from uk
How far will you go?
design by : rotem lahav from israel
All entries
February 9th, 2007
Advertising
Meric Kara matches
Funny matches that look like they’ve been burnt - no, sir, they haven’t!
Meric Kara is blushing
Radi Designers matchboxes
Perfect match for sheriffs - you can stick the star to wherever you want and then strike your match against it. So cool!
Some more images of Radi Designers and description in French
Loony Design matchboxes
In case you are far away from home and suddenly have an urge to have a bit of a celebration, these matchboxes have everything for it: four candles, matches and a candle holder. And last not least a comfortable striking surface to light the candles
Loony Design products
Jeremy Walton matchboxes
Now this guy has a whole collection of fantastic matchboxes - matchboxes in candles, tray matchbox, frame matchbox and others.
Check Jeremy Walton out
A small match Hanukah lamp (a traditional Jewish candle menorah), so, again, whenever the holiday is not with you, you are with the holiday.
Design: Reddish Studio
February 7th, 2007
Strange mobile phone concepts - which one will you choose?
Paper phone
“Paper Says” is a cellphone whose electronic innards are recyclable and whose outside is made of paper. The idea is for travellers, who first rent and use it, and then return so that the phone is recycled with a brand-new paper exterior.
Designers: Chia-Liang Hsu, Yi-Ting Chen, Jun-Lin Fu, Chih-Chieh Lee, Chun Chia Hsu, Allen Huang
Wacky BenQ Siemens
Crazy concepts by BenQ-Siemens. First, there is a snake-like phone, probably for wrapping around the arm, you can see the media player controls on the pictures.
Second one - twist the display around, and eventually the keypad part will form a stand for your mini screen.
A concept model with touch screen and sliding control panel.
Design by Product Visionaires GmbH
Pantech
Pantech concepts look mind-blowing too, this handset boasts with Moto PEBL-esque keypad.
Other Pantech concepts from Korean designers:
NEC
This device will bend and twist at your command. Available in different colours (though not yet, keep in mind that these are concepts).
Nokia
Nokia’s Aeon has a touchscreen that stretches over the full surface area of the phone.
Motorola
Motorola’s PVOT concept is designed for developing nations.
Alloy
Alloy Total Product Design has two displays: standard for viewing data and a touchscreen for accessing menus. Just don’t get confused!
Modelabs phones
Yoyo phone is meant to be worn around the neck. It draws energy from the bounces and swings created by the user and can also draw additional power from the built-in solar cell.
U-Turn, a business phone that draws energy from the opening and closing of the keyboard.
Runaway, a sports phone that draws energy from movements during exercise
February 6th, 2007
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Since it’s becoming traditional to have sequels of popular posts, enjoy the collection of cool and funny-looking chairs.
Fill in the cat
Fill the space with your belongings or put the cat back, if you prefer.
Design by NEL
M’ama non m’ama
Mirror-like aluminium structure in the shape of forget-me-nots.
Design by Sand&Birch
Micama Sofa
Its segmented form factor gives you lots of choices, rolling it out as far as you dare.
Design by Adero
One Shot stool
Fold your chair and then unfold it.
Design by Materialise.MGX
Soft Pipe
Comes from “the shape of a woman” - very stylish too.
Design by Sand&Birch
Lounge Seating
Bright yellow!
Design by Coloapas
Flindt chairs
Orchid Stool
Three or one, if inserted one into another
Rainbow stools
Design by Christian Flindt
February 5th, 2007
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