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Your Mobile Phone’s Best Friend

If dogs are to man then the MCube is to mobile phones. This industrious little cube is a wireless charger, bluetooth speaker, and information display. When you come home just place your mobile near the MCube. Using short range induction technology, your phone gets juiced up while all basic information like date/time, messages, and caller ID are transfered to the MCube’s built-in display. What’s more, the touch controls on the MCube enable you to access your mobile’s music files and pumps it out thru built-in speakers via bluetooth. Who wants one?

Designer: Sohui Won

Move Over Tonka

Tipper trucks haven’t change much in the last century so designer Haishan Deng took it upon himself to create the Super Tipper Truck. Current tipper trucks can only unload their cargo one way. This usually requires the driver to maneuver ever so carefully. With the Super Tipper, door access on all four sides allow it to dump its junk in any direction.

Designer: Haishan Deng

Scale for Infants

This is a portable air cushioned infant scale where you can completely release the air of the cushion and roll it into the size of an umbrella for convenient storage and carriage. Just push the power button and the air will be pumped in automatically. The soft and elastic air cushioned platform is comfortable and safe for infants to lie on.

Designer: Duck Image Studio

Hang On For Dear Life

Desk space is a premium so designers try to cater that by creating objects with smaller footprints. Take for example this Hanging Printer. The bulk of its components are actually underneath the desk. The paper feed and print head are the only parts sitting on the desk. The casing has an embedded LCD to indicate status. It makes for a simple clean modern aesthetic that’s actually quite a solve for today’s cluttered desktops.

Designer: Jin Hee Kim

Is This Chair Coming or Going?

The 3 Step Chair is an odd one. Looking at it side-on, you’d be hard pressed to figure out what’s happening. The 2 extra set of legs are supposed to confuse you, as if it’s in motion. It comes in a variety of shapes and configurations thanks to fiberglass and a production process called vacuum infusion. The end product is super light yet rigid enough to support a lot of weight.

Designer: Pinar Yar & Tugrul Govsa

Design Digest Vol.3

• How To Become a More Efficient Designer – Design Sojourn
• Grad School: Beast, Burden, or Blessing – Speak Up
• What does experience design have to do with sustainability – Adaptive Path
• In-depth Review of MacBook Air – Macworld
• 695 Design Business Cards – Flickr
• iPhone Battery Draining Faster? – DesignNotes

Chapel of La Estancia

The wedding chapel isn’t a building type with a great architectural pedigree; it’s usually a cue for syrupy swags and allusions aplenty to classical temples and Rococo palaces, all crammed into a structure that wouldn’t look out of place in a trailer park.

Architect: Bunker Arquitectura