11.11.10
Chris Burns

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Installations

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Environment of Understanding

Environment of Understanding

This project is called “Hope Tree” and it aims to encapsulate you in a world of light and help you to fully immerse yourself in the essence of our natural environment. As the designers put it, “Lately, we are bombarded with products that try to deal with the consequences of environmental damages throughout the world, but occasionally we overlook the roots of these occurring problems by not fully understanding our environment.” With that problem in their path, they set to work creating a tree.

0 Designers: Fumio Hirakawa and Marina Topunova of 24° Studio

11.10.10
Long Tran

Categories:
Architecture

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Loopy Home

Loopy Home

This stunning architectural piece called the 360 House in Madrid, Spain eschews standard conformity by looping in on itself. The roof is at once protective and accessible as a walkway. Of course this means that almost no wall inside is flat but I suspect interior designers are up for a new challenge nowadays. Congrats to Andrés Silanes, Fernando Valderrama and Carlos Bañón. We must visit this house! Want to give us a tour Subarquitectura?

0 Designer: Subarquitectura

11.10.10
Long Tran

Categories:
Home
Product Design

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Iron Doggy

Iron Doggy

The I-dog is a part of a limited edition sculpture series created by Elda Bellone designed to explore how sculptures cross into function. Made of white iron, it’s strong and gentle at the same time. Awww! Use it as an umbrella stand or anything else you can fit inside its structure. It’s adorable!

0 Designer: Elda Bellone Studio Architetture

11.10.10
Radhika Seth

Categories:
Product Design
Technology

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Tweet and Like Me Even When I’m Dead!

Tweet and Like Me Even When I’m Dead!

I guess the E-Tomb makes complete sense for people like me who spend endless hours tweeting, Facebook-ing and blogging. It’s the kinda tombstone with Bluetooth and solar panels and stores your logs; friends and family can come over and access your virtual life from it and keep each other updated with anecdotes about you by uploading their stories to the tombstone. Sounds a bit spooky right now, but since RFID Tags for this are already popular, the next best thing has to be updates from the gave, and the world beyond!

0 Designers: Huang Jianbo, Zhao Ting, Wang Yushan, Ran Xiangfei & Mo Ran

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11.10.10
Radhika Seth

Categories:
Product Design

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Double Drum Wash

Double Drum Wash

What a clever thing…imagine using a washing machine with two drums, the first is a regular bloke that does its usual business and the second is convenient compartment in the front-loading-door that washes delicates or whites separately. The idea proposes at saving water, time and electricity by combining the two cycles. I think its brilliant!

0 Designer: Yoon Hyung Woo

11.10.10
Chris Burns

Categories:
Accessories & Fashion
YD Store

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That's No Newspaper for Rain

That’s No Newspaper for Rain

It’s a well-made piece of water-resistant canvas made for rain. It’s called the “Newspaper Rain Bag” and it’s 45.5 x 30.5cm of ironic rain-blocking paper for your everyday use. It’s also a bag that can carry your books! You’ll note not only the cleverl real-world sizing, but the well-placed strap and cover story (complete with a picture of the news paper ON the news paper.) It’s everything you need in a newspaper sized bag that also block the weather. Everything in the world!

0 Designer: Koan Design of MEGAWING [Buy It Here]

11.10.10
Chris Burns

Categories:
Product Design

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Preserving The World Through Electronics Upgrades

Preserving The World Through Electronics Upgrades

We’ve got all this tech, right? And we use lots and lots of energy to make it all. When we switch to a new phone or drop our laptop, breaking the screen, getting a whole new laptop, we waste via the new energy we’re using creating a whole new set of objects. Instead, what designer Dominic Muren hopes to do is to create an environment where not only are our minds changed on the way we interact with our devices, but the way those devices are able to be fixed and upgraded.

0 Designer: Dominic Muren

11.10.10
Chris Burns

Categories:
Lifestyle
Technology

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Back to the Typewriter

Back to the Typewriter

Now here is a media center project unlike any I’ve ever seen before. Inspired by the iconic typewriter he has at his desk, (a Lettera 22,) thinking about the futuristic world we live in and will live in in the future, this designer decided to combine the aesthetics of the typewriter with the guts of a modern day media center. A media center, for those of you who’ve get to get on board, is a computer specially equipped to act as your television hookup.

0 Designer: Carlo Convertini

11.09.10
Long Tran

Categories:
Furniture
Interiors

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Sumo Sway, Beanbags Are Comfy

Sumo Sway, Beanbags Are Comfy

There’s the trashy looking beanbag that only looks right in a kid’s room or college dorm and then there’s the more sophisticated beanbag that says you’re a little more mature now. That’s why we like Sumo Lounge’s plushy and stuffed offerings. We’ve mentioned them before and they’re back with a new product called the Sway Single and Sway Couple. Both come in microsueded or corduroy shells and the new curved back makes it even more comfortable.

0 Designer: Sumo Lounge (Buy it here $249-$279)

11.09.10
Long Tran

Categories:
Installations
Outdoor

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Meanwhile, In The Agricultural Sector...

Meanwhile, In The Agricultural Sector…

This work was created for the exhibition Beeld Hal Werk in Amsterdam which included some 59 sculpted works. The idea came from Louis-Ferdinand Celine’s ‘Death on credit’ in which a pseudo scientist tries to increase the size of his crops by radiating the land, only to harvest small rotten, maggot-infested potatoes. Needless to say, it didn’t work. This modern version looks like a 1980′s crash landed sci-fi prop. Lasers on stun PEW PEW! All made possible with the help of the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture.

0 Designer: Paul Segers

11.09.10
Long Tran

Categories:
Home
Lighting
Product Design

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Phallic Much?

Phallic Much?

Rise and Shine is a tribute to the Edison lightbulb which helped accelerate us into industrial era but after 130 years, it seems the light is finally dimming. The lightbulb will soon be banned from the EU and similar measures are taking place all over the world. In honor, this cheeky presentation shows the powerful rise of the lightbulb in a symbolic way – the brevity of existence.

0 Designer: Joost Wever

11.09.10
Radhika Seth

Categories:
Product Design
Resources

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Wheels Of the Cycle Give Me Power…

Wheels Of the Cycle Give Me Power…

Power to juice up my gadgets, power to spike up my laptop! The idea behind re:energy concept is this: you ride the cycle and the wheels function as a generator to convert kinetic energy to power, and store the juice. When you run out of battery for your gadgets, recharge them by hooking them up to this unique cycle. A very do-able idea so you tech-specialists should have fun talking about this…on similar lines, we do have a pedal-driven washing machine invented!

0 Designers: Jinsik Kim and Boseung Seo

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11.09.10
Radhika Seth

Categories:
Product Design

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Look…My Phone Has A Tail!

Look…My Phone Has A Tail!

The cute little Mobile Tail instantly transforms your phone to a viewing display. The heartening inspiration behind this tail is One Hundred and One Dalmatians; thus the Dalmatian tail. It’s crafted from flexible liquid silicone rubber (LSR) – a non-reactive, high-purity material and attaches to any device via the suction cup. More than anything else, the idea of the tail and its sweet packaging makes it a must-want in my list!

0 Designers: Sangwoo Park & Jongwon Park

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