A Conversation Piece

A Conversation Piece

Two flower pots communicate between a window glass. A green plant that grows in the wild has many stories to tell the pot of exotic flowers. Quietly listen to them speak. Eventually, the two become one through a magnetic force that brings them together. One pot free to breath the air of the outside while the other pot shows off its’ beauty to those who are on the inside.

0 Designer: Kyung-Eun Oh

Blocky MP3 Player, Oh And Modular Too

Blocky MP3 Player, Oh And Modular Too

If you hit the jump, try to ignore the emo haircuts and focus on that piece of tech hanging from around their necks. The BLOC MP3 player may look like another stylized DAP but there’s function to its Lego-like form. The core unit houses an OLED screen, 4-way directional toggle, and 50GB of memory.

0 Designer: Chetan Sorab

Nail Cushion Saves Fingers

Nail Cushion Saves Fingers

Sometimes nails are too short and small for our fingers to hold and we end up with swollen thumbs. The Nail Cushion is a rubberized plate that holds various nail diameters to allow an easy and safe strike. By default the plate also helps drive the nail straight in. No more swollen thumbs and safe enough for Tim Allen to use.

0 Designer: Arthur Xin

Life Through Lighting

Life Through Lighting

The inspiration behind The Cell Project is one of much deeper meaning than a simple light fixture to hang on the wall. The two designs featured in The Cell Project are created to form three dimensional patterns through the repetition of the components that make up the fixtures. What starts as a simple object, builds upon itself to create a new multi dimensional form.

0 Designer: John Wischhusen

Put Your Butt In My Condom

Put Your Butt In My Condom

So it is quite impossible to actually place your butt into a condom, but not necessarily with the new design by Jiang Qian. His unique design is a play on the condom. Thus making this product much more interesting and allows the person wearing it to let their personality come to life.

0 Designer: Qian Jiang

Like Jekyll And Hyde

Like Jekyll And Hyde

Prescription lenses are expensive so it’s not often we can afford more than a single pair. Unfortunately that means being tethered to one frame style. Switch Glasses gives you at least two options to fit your mood and lifestyle. The design adds pivots and hinges to the arms and lens of a pair of glasses. By flipping them around, you can take advantage of two different frame colors. Maybe one for work and a funkier one for a night out.

0 Designer: Hyo-Jong Kim

Cakes Ret' To Eat

Cakes Ret’ To Eat

I’m not sure exactly when bakeries started including those plastic knives but it’s genius. Tho the first time I saw one, my first thought was a hair comb. My second thought was why not include plates and forks to make it a complete package? Looks like designer Junk-Suk Choi was thinking the same thing.

0 Designer: Jung-Suk Choi

Come On Baby Light My Fire…

Come On Baby Light My Fire…

Looking for new ways to ignite the fire between you and your true love? “Matchlight” is the answer for you. Designed as a mood lighting concept, the romantic glow of the sixteen matchsticks can “light” the way for the atmosphere you are looking to attain.

0 Designer: Chetan Sorab

Sony Ericsson Plays Nice With Thumb Drives

Sony Ericsson Plays Nice With Thumb Drives

You know, industrial designers seem to love conceptualizing what future Sony Ericsson mobiles will look like. Designer Vincent Palicki is just one of many but his design actually looks like it could be made today and fit right in with the SE family.

0 Designer: Vincent Palicki

What A Purdy Washing Machine

What A Purdy Washing Machine

Flexible Distance is a top loading washing machine developed for Ye Xiao Dong as winners of the “Lavatrice Cinese Made In Milan” competition. The emphasis? Pure style. The idea is this machine is so beautiful, it can be placed anywhere in the home; even as a center piece. But how can a washing machine be this mobile? By caster wheels of course. However beauty is only skin deep. The real innovation here is the interface.

0 Designer: Simona Iuculano

LED Mushroom Lamp

LED Mushroom Lamp

The latest piece from Australian designer Simon Duff, the Mushroom Floor lamp is designed to create mood lighting and provide ambient light to an interior space. The lights can be used independently or in small clusters and can be positioned in corners and against walls to intensify their light output.

0 Designer: Simon Duff

Two Faced Tray

Two Faced Tray

Two2tray is a snack/fruit tray, but with a philosophical antidote. In our daily lives people judge things based on context clues. In the case of this snack tray, the happy and angry face could lead you to believe to avoid one food for the other. Another useful whim would be to put a really fattening dip on one side and a semi-healthy one in the other. That way your guests can’t complain if they get fat off your snacks. Hey, the faces warned them.

0 Designer: Yu Guoqun

Tetris & Pong Forever

Tetris & Pong Forever

Relive the gaming glory of your youth by immersing yourself in quick games of Tetris and Pong Forever. Sure today’s video games are a bit tricky for the rusty out dated gamer but at least with the Nixon watch, you’ll always feel right at home. My only question is who do I play Pong against? My left and right hands aren’t exactly evenly matched so it wouldn’t be a fair game.

0 Designer: Lysandre Follet