Will Design For Money
Will Design For Money ($16) is part of some witty typography tees by Words Brand that make you look awesome. WDFM is a pure designer tee. Whether you’re “free” lance or on staff, wear your art on your sleeve with this seemingly obvious but often overlooked truism. Or if you’re prefer to stay in perpetual [...]
Give Your Plant A Voice
A plant is a plant is a plant … not exactly! Plants aren’t what they seem to be, they have a identity as well. The Koubachi Wi-Fi plant sensor (€122,60) is an intelligent assistant for optimal plant care – for indoor use – that notifies you via email if your plants need water or fertilizer [...]
Radical Sitting, Hidden Experiments In Seating Furniture 1900 – 1990
Radical Sitting, Hidden Experiments in Seating Furniture 1900 – 1990 is an illustrated curated “source book” by Okolo including timeline of some of the lesser known, but really interesting experiments in the seating furniture designed during the 20th century. The project was created for SEATS 05 exhibition at Depot Basel. The book includes Carlo Bugatti, Paul [...]
Day Maker – The Charging iPhone Alarm Toaster
We have seen a lot of alarm clocks, but nothing says morning like a piece of toast jumping in a toaster. With that in mind, Day Maker (est. $180) , a bedside phone charger/alarm hub, lets you know it’s time to rise and shine with a little added spring from your phone alarm. And if [...]
Free Polyhedral Wallpaper By Carmelaine Antonio
Carmelaine Antonio, born in 1990, is a graphic designer based in the Philippines. As you can see in this free downloadable Wallpaper above for Kuvva she loves and finds joy in playing with shapes, lines and mixing 3d objects to create interesting abstract forms. Her interests include photography, advertising, print, Illustration, typography and now she [...]
Forests By Andrea Altemüller
Whilst staying in the south of Thailand, German photographer Andrea Altemüller would often take long walks in an ancient pine forest to be found close to a temple. “During my walks, the forest would always feel other wordly, somehow dream-like in my perception. I set about to capture this quality with my camera, an inspiration [...]
Football’s Coming Home With Teckell’s Coffee Table
If we speak about Teckell we speak about the reinterpretation of the table sport of football by designer Adriano Design. Take for example the Intervallo ($TBA), a coffee table with attitude and an interlude to think things over, to see the world from another perspective, and to elaborate new tactics, before getting back into the [...]
A Tiny Machine That Makes Postcards
Melvin the Magical Mixed Media Machine (Melvin the Machine or simply Melvin for friends) is a Rube Goldberg machine that has an online identity as well. “When we built our first Melvin late 2010, we built it BIG because it needed to entertain loads of people all at once. After its initial (online) succes, a [...]
Ultra-Thin Wallet Fits In Your Front Pocket With An iPhone
Slimfold Bamboo Wallet ($20) is an ultra-thin, ultra rip-resistant and 100% waterproof wallet made from Tyvek, the FedEx mailing envelope material. It’s 5 times lighter than leather wallets. This pattern echoes the vertical lines of bamboo in light gray lines. The background is the natural white of the material. Only as heavy as what you [...]
Wine Corks Dressed Up To Create Forms That Resemble The Countries
Spanish design studio Lavernia & Cienfuegos has redesigned a range of playful wine labels that the Belgian supermarket chain Delhaize offers within its own brand 365. The wine corks were dressed up to create forms that resemble the countries. These include a koala bear to represent Australian wine, an elephant to represent South African wine, [...]
The Soap Range
Soap Range by Daniel Ting Chong is a collaboration between Chong and a soap maker in Johannesburg, South Africa. “I wanted to make something quite quirky and fun. The Paintbrush has a lemon scent, the Cleaver has a strong peppermint scent and the Ice Cream is a combination of both,” says Chong. These are available [...]
The Next Generation Of Big Buildings
Evolo Skyscrapers (ISBN: 978-0-9816658-4-9, $120, 1.200-page publication, 300+ innovative skyscrapers) which was sold out in only two months after its initial release and praised by the Wall Street Journal, will be available as reprint for a limited time! Evolo will take orders for the second printing until May 31, 2012. Books ordered will be delivered in [...]
Avalanche – Combining Louis XIV Style With Modern Minimalism Design
French Say What Studio have launched a new project on well designed and handprinted cotton tote bags ($14), as well as silk printed notebooks ($6.50). The project itself is entitled Avalanche Print. Avalanches are a sudden, drastic flow of snow down a slope which are classified by their morphological characteristics. They’re rated by either their [...]
The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog
This fox iPad sleeve ($76) is handmade in Canada by Isabelle Dansereau and fits all iPad versions. The sleeve is made with 100% wool design felt and the flap is attached with a metal button. Details are also made with 100% wool felt. The sparkles in the eyes are added by Swarovski rhinestones. There is [...]
What’s In My Bag (On-The-Go)
Peter Nitsch‘s background is located back in the early eighties of the German Skater scene. Nitsch has won several international awards both as designer (New York Festival, BDA …) and photographer (Los Angeles International Photography Award, Hasselblad Masters semifinalist …). Furthermore he is co-founder of ‘get addicted to … DAILY MIX OF CREATIVE CULTURE’. Often being [...]
The Magic Cube Laser Keyboard
The Magic Cube ($169) by Korean technology company Celluon is a projection keyboard and multi-touch mouse, which allows you to use any surface as a keyboard. The device projects the keyboard onto the surface using lasers which can pick up your finger movements. It connects easily to any Bluetooth HID devices, including the latest iPhone, [...]
A True Painting Experience On Your iPad
Sensu ($34.95) is two very useful tools in one. A brush and a stylus for capacitive devices like the iPad and iPhone. The rubber stylus is exposed when the artist brush is closed. This stylus is great for sketching and writing or as a general navigation tool. Grasp Sensu near the nib section and pull [...]
The World In Your Pocket
WorldView+ ($2.99) lets you not only explore over 19,000 of webcams from all around the world–all webcams listed at webcams.travel are available to view–it also lets you discover the place they are located. Except the revisited icon design by Marcelo Marfil, this app is one of the more functional and attractive “compromises,” rather than an [...]
Flight Card App – Your Boarding Pass, Reinvented
Designed by Jonatan Castro, Flight Card ($4.99) is a simple flight tracking application, incredibly beautiful and intuitive, trying to make traveling easier and hassle-free. Just search for your flight by number or route, track it and share its status with your family and friends. The sharing aspect is actually really useful, allowing you to quickly [...]
The Analog Moleskine Shooting Message System
Designed by Italian Pietro Corraini, the analog Moleskine SMS–Shooting Message System–($16.50) set features a classic pocket Moleskine notebook in limited edition with a graduated cover that becomes a ballistic device. The cover shows how far you can shoot a message while using the notebook band as a makeshift slingshot. The notebook includes an instructions booklet [...]
Henrik Vibskov – How To Fashion Art
“If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.” – Albert Einstein I just rediscovered the wonderful works of art of Henrik Vibskov (Gestalten, ISBN 978-3-89955-435-9, $60). To describe Henrik Vibskov as merely a fashion designer would be a vast understatement. As an artist, passionate musician, innovative stage designer, and [...]
Digital Enhanced Cutting Board
Korean based student industrial designer Jaewan Jeong came up with this great concept of a digital enhanced cutting board. The Almighty Board is equipped with a scale, a LCD display that shows cooking instructions on it and provide step-by-step directions. When you use the smart board the status changes to ‘busy’ and at the same [...]
Three-Dimensional Sculptures By Hong Sung Chul
1969 born Korean artist Hong Sung Chul, represented by HADA Contemporary in London, is using various media and modern technology. Hong’s current body of work revives his string concept – a visual representation of what ties humans together from the earliest stage of life – the umbilical chord. Gallery owner Tom Woo and Tony Pontone [...]
Amplifiear – Ear Pinning For The iPad
With the launch of the new iPad, everything seems to have been rethought except the speaker. Some of you already might rather use palms for free, but for the rest of us the iPad will have a good looking jumbo dumbo ear: The Amplifiear ($20 at Kickstarter) sound amplification device simply clips onto the corner of [...]
