04.12.11
Long Tran

Categories:
Automotive

14 Comments

One Sexy F1 Car

One Sexy F1 Car

Aryton Senna’s 1986 Lotus 98T is probably one of the most iconic Formula One cars. It’s the last in a long line of cars in the beautiful John Player Special colors of black and gold. This concept reinterprets these colors for Team Lotus in the F1 season 2011. It celebrates the pure beauty of F1 cars with matte black sponsor logos instead of bright obnoxious branding. Black carbon fibre is left unpainted to reduce weight. The top surfaces are coated with a matte finish to improve laminar flow reducing turbulence and increasing aerodynamic efficiency.

0 Designer: Sonny Lim

04.12.11
Troy Turner

Categories:
Product Design
Technology

2 Comments

KINECTed Conference

KINECTed Conference

The Kinected Conference project utilizes sound sensors and, you guessed it, the world’s fast selling consumer electronics device to implement some really cool features into videoconferencing.  Freezing Former Frames stop the current frame, “freezing” a chosen area so you can text or complete another task without offending the person on the other end. Talking to Focus recognizes the speaker and blurs out the rest when there are multiple people in frame. I might need that one for our video blog (jk Long!). Catch the vid for more on KC!

0 Designers: Various

04.12.11
Troy Turner

Categories:
Lighting

5 Comments

Techno-Organic Lighting

Techno-Organic Lighting

This new collection of suspended LED lamps by Integral Studio Vinaccia utilize an overlay of hard wooden slats to create volume and soft familiar shapes. A cloud of wood blades form the Cumulus lamp as it seemingly floats while spreading soft light and the Frame lamp’s wood slats hold an interchangeable central screen that casts elaborate shadows on the surrounding space. The entire collection is available in natural wood, or painted white or black.

0 Designer: Giulio & Valerio Vinaccia

04.12.11
Troy Turner

Categories:
Lighting
Product Design

3 Comments

Dangle Lamp

Dangle Lamp

This friendly looking lamp by Enrico Salis supports a single shelf for books and other objects while it’s adjustable upper arm holds a paper chandelier- almost as if it’s presenting an offering of light to the user. The adjustable upper arm  can be set in two positions while the electrical wire remains hidden within the simple but rigid supporting structure.  This straightforward design makes a great lighting solution bedside or near a comfy chair; perfect for late night reading.

0 Designer: Enrico Salis

04.11.11
Radhika Seth

Categories:
Product Design

141 Comments

Combination Memory

Combination Memory

The Collector USB Flash Drive is one awesome concept that I’d love to see on shelves. The idea is simple. A USB Stick accommodates small capacity memory cards. Custom configure the stick or simply keep expanding, just do your techie thing and be happy! What a great way to use all those smaller cards laying around the house. Not sure how it deals with partitioning unless there are some smarts built-in to deal with hot swapping.

0 Designer: Fang-Chun Tsai

04.11.11
Long Tran

Categories:
Product Design

5 Comments

Stealthy Speakers

Stealthy Speakers

I’m not keen on the design because it looks like some military grade weapon but I suspect there are some audiophiles who could appreciate the Stealth | Four loudspeaker concept. It’s minimal in design, isolating each driver unit for maximum quality of sound reproduction without the need for bulk.

0 Designer: Gorden Fraser

04.11.11
Long Tran

Categories:
Product Design

5 Comments

Balancing Blocks

Balancing Blocks

Ah the simple joy of stacking objects to see how high they can go before the whole thing collapses. Fort Standard, a design studio based in New York created Balancing Blocks, an homage to a timeless form of entertainment for all ages. Each $70 set is handmade. A bit pricey but I love the simplicity.

0 Designer: Fort Standard

04.11.11
Radhika Seth

Categories:
Home
Product Design

5 Comments

Mathematically Timing

Mathematically Timing

The deceptively cool looking Clockus is one heavy-duty brain-drain that takes off from where the IQ Clock left us. It presents you with a rudimentary math problem every hour so if you want the time, brush up on your addition, subtraction and multiplication tables. For you math geniuses, Clockus can serve up questions in the 24hr format. Oooh double digits!

0 Designer: Noh Ji Hun

04.11.11
Troy Turner

Categories:
Product Design

4 Comments

Succession Furniture Collection

Succession Furniture Collection

The eccentric pieces in this new upholstered furniture collection by Fredrik Färg stimulate the imagination with their animal-like form and feeling of movement. The textile and leather shelving and stools even have all the markings of a beast of burden. Individual pieces are bound in rope, heated, and then cut loose to produce a seamless pattern that is as harsh as it is civilized. According to Färg, they’ve become the family he “never knew he had.”

0 Designer: Fredrik Färg

04.11.11
Troy Turner

Categories:
Lighting
Product Design

394 Comments

Liquid to Light

Liquid to Light

Designer Ed Chew takes a green step in the right direction with the TetraBox lamp, a light object made from discarded drink packets that would have otherwise ended up in landfills already packed to the brim. The design is achieved by unfolding the packets and refolding them into hexagonal and pentagonal sections that are then pieced together to form a geodesic sphere or any other desired shape. Here, the Epcot-like ball makes an attractive overhead light and casts an impressive web of shadows and shapes on the surrounding space.

0 Designer: Ed Chew

04.11.11
Troy Turner

Categories:
Product Design

1 Comment

Sauna of Mammoth Proportions

Sauna of Mammoth Proportions

Everyone’s favorite ice age creature is the focus of this sauna by AtelierForte. The last in a series of huge animalian sculptures that aim to join art and positive industrial construction, Mammuthus Belli features a 10 meter high body and support structure made of spruce as well as 6 meter long iron tusks. Water flows under the belly as well as through the trunk from a tank located inside the iron head. See the making of the mammoth on April 15th!

0 Designer: AtelierForte

04.08.11
Radhika Seth

Categories:
Appliances
Kitchen
Product Design

24 Comments

Tea Party

Tea Party

I’m not a fussy tea drinker and don’t give a rat’s tail about blend, brew or steeping, but I have this tea connoisseur cousin who has painstakingly mastered the art of brewing his perfect cuppa. For the impatient and the perfectionists alike, we have the Tesera Teemachine. It is an automated tea machine that dishes out the perfect cup by controlling the brewing time, water temperature and the amount of tea, depending upon the blend being used. This is how it should be!

0 Designer: Tobias Gehring

04.08.11
Radhika Seth

Categories:
Cameras
Product Design
Technology

48 Comments

Digital Camera with an Analog Experience

Digital Camera with an Analog Experience

The last time I bought a roll of film was probably in 2002 and quite honestly I don’t really miss the experience of changing rolls and getting photographs developed. What I do miss is the suspense! Suspense in wondering how the pictures will come out. Did we get good shots? Well, that thrilling experience can be duplicated with Digital Film; an analog-styled camera with a digital twist! Quite clever if you ask me!

0 Designer: Park Hyun Jin

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