Recycled art of bags

Momaboma bags are real. In the sense that if it’s an L.P. bag, it’s made of a real used vinyl. Recycled aestheticism, that’s what they do.

MomaBoma use school notes, magazines and newspapers for their bags. They are great!

MomaBoma (Italian)

3 comments May 22nd, 2007

Party Timer - a must-have

This Party Timer absolutely rocks. It is developed to help you find out, what kind of party you are hosting (in case you are too drunk to figure it out yourself?)

Party Timer can be placed on a table or up the wall. There are only four options:
1st option – regular clock
2nd option – party timer
3rd option – party timer with analysis of the party afterwards
4th option – you select a party and the timer tells you how to turn up the sound if necessary.

Inside the Timer is a sensor, which measures sound level. There are 9 ways of parties:

If the sound level is 0-10 db, Party Timer says No Party

If the sound is 11-20 db, this means it’s a Romantic Party

If the sound level is 21-50 db, it’s really casual (Talking Party)

If the sound level is 51-70 db, the party is just getting started (Lite Party)

If the sound level is 71-90 db, it’s a Music Party

If the sound level is 91-100 db, the dancing is on (Dance Party)

If the sound level is 101-120 db, you might have taken your Timer to a club? (Club Party)

If the sound level is 121-160 db, the neighbourhood knows about your party (Mega Party)

161 db and up means that a war might have begun (Atom Party)

Design by Alexey Belyalov

4 comments May 18th, 2007

My Precious

Lord of the Rings would envy this collection of cool rings. Yeah well, perhaps, the cool part is not exactly what Tolkien meant, anyway – feast your eyes, ladies!

Alyssa Dee Krauss old style ticket rings.

Pippa Knowles Barcode collection

This is a ring to substitute diamonds, around 90 bucks each. Developed by Yuho Fukuhara, a graduate of Tokyo’s Hiko Mizuno College of Jewellery.

Square slices that rotate and slide by UK designer James Newman

Folded metal plates can also be rings! By Dutch jeweler Suzanne Esser.

Another Dutch artist – Ineke Otte, grass is greener on his rings.

Sarah Chilton makes rings with animals inside. Sweet!

Thanks to the Carrot Box Ring Blog

4 comments May 17th, 2007

Kitschy food by Marti Guixe

Marti Guixe is a genius designer. Techno-gastrasof, that’s what they call him, because his food art is absolutely amazing and really creative.

Warning: NSFHP (Not Safe for Hungry People)

Guixé as a Food Designer builds edible products that are ergonomic, functional, communicative, interactive, visionary but radically contemporary and timeless.

7-Step Cookie.
Cookie with decoration that indicates how to bite it.

Autobahn Cakes.
Cookies for eating while driving with tyre print relief on them.

A wine bottle to remember the name of the wine

The pie graphic indicates the ingredients of the cake in percentages.

Olive Atomic Snack:
Three-dimensional tapas, in the shape of atomic models.

Post-it Chip.
Potatoe chip that you can stick anywhere and remove when you want to eat it.

More of Marti Guixe Food Design

2 comments May 16th, 2007

Farewell to cassettes

Audio cassettes are misused nowadays. Less and less people listen to them, preferring to create objects of art, like this cutest retro wallet, hand-made from cassette tapes.

It was created by Marcella Foschi and is available for $43 from Design Boom Shop.

Oh and by the way, Currys in Britain announced that it stops selling cassette tapes. The High Street chain also predicts that this Christmas will be the last time it sells any hi-fi system with a tape deck included.

For a comparison, last year Currys sold just 100,000 tapes compared with 83 million in 1989.

6 comments May 14th, 2007

The Other Leg

Some furniture is regular, and some is not. Like this small collection of weird tables and chairs – three normal legs and one Other leg. Getting chills?

Table Teresa
Design: Citi & Simonelli

Copy and Paste chair
Design: Sigurdur Gustafsson

Reanim Chairs
Design: 5.5 Designers

2 comments May 10th, 2007

Your dinner is served

But is it served on funny plates? If not, here is some advice, where to get those.

This gorgeous glazed porcelain plate from Moss has a golden crack in it. Designed by Ted Muehling.

Yours for $550 (The crack is fake)

Grooveware is a series of three porcelain dishes and an ashtray – all come paired with an appropriate utensil. So that you will never have to decide, where to put your spoon down.

By Normal Design

GreenerGrassDesign offers you Good China and Bad China to decide what you think about your guests – by placing an appropriate pair of plates in front of each guest. May it be Gluttony or Envy, or Virtue or other 7 Deadly Sins and 7 Contrary Virtues.

Full set for $340

ContemPlates - small people on plates represent people on the beach.

From FreshWestDesign

These two sets are Snap-and-Dine sets. Well, you understand the idea – whenever you want to eat – just snap this kit and do so. Incredibly funny invention!

Demelza Hill

Geek Snap-a-Party Instant Party set

1 comment May 9th, 2007

Plaster Faster

Super trendy and cute thing – funny bandages. I mean, if we want to make life funnier, bandages are one of the most important thing for that.
Sooo, this bandage is from our favourite Meric Kara. No definite message.

This one is a Communicator Swarovski bling plaster with real Swarovski crystals by Fabian Seibert.

Silver and 8 Carat gold bandages “for the heart” from Adk Design. They probably won’t heal but look really nice.

Also not a real bandage – just because it’s the size of a skateboard. And it actually is a skateboard.

Untypical designers Atypyk have plasters like this:

2 comments May 3rd, 2007

So that your hall wall looks better

This is Orchid, it is a set of clothes-hooks, the petals bent so that articles can be hung from them. Highly decorative and cheerful.

Get it from blank>Charlotte Lancelot

This is IVY, it lets you design a scultuptural shape for your clothes you like the most. Every kit comes with 16 Y shapes, connectors, screws and anchors.

Get it here.

Personal favourite - this interesting coatrack from SmallFactories.

Add comment May 2nd, 2007