04.19.10
Radhika Seth

Categories:
Music
Product Design
Technology

16 Comments

Floored By The Sonic Emotional Pulse Of Music

Floored By The Sonic Emotional Pulse Of Music

What do we have for our audiophiles today? A glorious, sleek and majestic player called the Sonic Emotional Pulse Of Music designers by Chen Guoheng. Going by the norm of transparent covers showcasing the disk spinning fast, this one goes a step ahead and partially exposes the spinning disk. Fiber optic cables are used to hook this baby up, with shimmy blue LEDs emitting a soft glow right below the speakers. The highlight of course is the equalizer waves that move in sync with the beat of the music.

0 Designer: Chen Guoheng

04.19.10
Chris Burns

Categories:
Kitchen

5 Comments

One Cute Top

One Cute Top

It’s not a tank! It’s a pot. It’s a pot top. It’s for cooking with! It’s called the “FUNction” It’s got a dolphin tail on it! Or I suppose you could call it whatever kind of tail you want, but designer Sangyoon Kim says it’s a dolphin. I’m inclined to agree! Under the tail, also called the knob in this situation, is a heat-resistant silicone mat which represents the ocean. And like the ocean, it keeps the users from touching the pot. Because the pot? It is hot. Do not touch the pot.

0 Designer: Sangyoon Kim

04.19.10
Anthony James

Categories:
Product Design

14 Comments

Bringin' Baby Back

Bringin’ Baby Back

What weighs a little over 25 lbs. and whines incessantly about everything it sees? No, not Victoria Beckham. It’s that baby you have strapped to your back in what is being called the “JoinUs” by designer Robert Jurgens for Dadanana. Simply put, it’s what Native Americans once called a “papoose”, but we Yanko-vittes will just call it a backpack for babies. This slick design is light, practical and comes with both a kick-stand and weather guard.

0 Designers: Philippe Soeters & Robert Jurgens

04.19.10
Chris Burns

Categories:
Lighting

10 Comments

Simple Light, All Wood

Simple Light, All Wood

How simple a light do you want for your desktop? How about one with a couple joints, a base, a wire, and a bit of shine? Well hay! We’ve got that right here! Designed by Swedish design and architecture studio TAF for Scandinavian design company Muuto. One of the most prominent hopes for this project was to project the idea of Honesty. That’s why all bolts, joints, and screws are emphasized.

0 Designer: TAF for Muuto

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04.19.10
Chris Burns

Categories:
Automotive

13 Comments

Floating Above the City on Rails

Floating Above the City on Rails

Here’s something I believe I’ve seen in Gotham City, that mythical magical city of futuristic proportions you’ve all glanced upon in the series Batman. But this is more real! Depending on how you look upon it. It’s a train system designed by two loving designers who want to make transport for the people also above the people and looking upon the people. Transparent sides!

0 Designer: Elisa Sayuri Freitas Irokawa and Rafael Osmar de Oliveira e Costa

04.16.10
Long Tran

Categories:
Dining
Outdoor
Product Design

14 Comments

Lap Eating Is The 21st Century Way

Lap Eating Is The 21st Century Way

Lapware exists in the realm between traditional tableware and cheap plastic/paper plates. There’s a contemporary approach to this eating style. It’s suggestive of a more casual experience that’s highly focused on social interactions. Each piece looks awkwardly shaped but exquisitely molded to fit the unique nooks and crannies of the human body. It’s adaptive and functional and I’m hungry.

0 Designer: Andrea Marin

04.16.10
Long Tran

Categories:
Product Design
Technology

5 Comments

Grade School Learning In The Future

Grade School Learning In The Future

What will education be like in the 21st century? The “Conceptual Age” has just begun. In this era, the creative and sensitive, conceptual thinkers will play a major role and in their education, school plays the most important role. Human intelligence produces technical and social change at a pace the traditional classroom can no longer deny. Since students have the opportunity to research online, teachers no longer have mastery over knowledge. They become mediators and facilitators, they need to promote the students‘ ability to work scientifically.

0 Designer: designaffairs STUDIO

04.16.10
Long Tran

Categories:
Product Design

12 Comments

Make Cooking A Dining Experience

Make Cooking A Dining Experience

Why is it the kitchen and dining area are in two separate rooms? They function together in a symbiotic relationship more so than any other in a house. Space is a premium so designers are thinking modularity and this exercise in efficient cooking/dining is probably just one of many concept we’ll see . It’s a dining table with a work/cook top; or is it a work/cook top with a dining table? In one fell swoop, you get both with the added bonus of an office nook. The ceramic cook top is insulated with silicon to protect that beautiful wood beneath. I want this badly.

0 Designer: Jonas Buck

04.16.10
Anthony James

Categories:
Product Design
Tableware

20 Comments

A Glass With Class

A Glass With Class

Under normal circumstances a drinking glass with an extra hole in it is a messy proposition. Unless that hole was designed by Alvaro Lagos Vasquez. His “O-Glass” design cleverly uses the base of a normal lowball glass by inserting a hole. Now you can use this magical hole to hold a napkin, pencil, spike etc. Plus, it creates an easy storing potential in bars. Genius! This got me thinking, what other common items could be improved by the simple inclusion of a hole?

0 Designer: Alvaro Lagos Vasquez

04.16.10
Chris Burns

Categories:
Furniture
Living

11 Comments

You Put the Chalk on The Table

You Put the Chalk on The Table

And that’s where it stays, until of course you want it offa there! It’s also easy to clean. What I’m talking about of course is “Board Stories”, a collection of furniture made for your customization in any chalk color you do so desire. What we’ve got here is the table. So nice you aughtta be able to use it for meetings, dining, drawing, and whatever else you might seem to beed it for. It’s versatile.

0 Designer: Board Stories

04.16.10
Chris Burns

Categories:
Lighting

5 Comments

Seed of Light, Flower of Illumination

Seed of Light, Flower of Illumination

I swear this lampshade has nothing to do with the occult. Really! Actually it has a lot more to do with nature and the unzipping of poly propylene sheets. That’s what the “ZIPP Lampshade” is made of, poly propylene, all arranged nicely in a flower-like shape for your total enjoyment in brightness! In its flowery flower state, the shade is approximately 50cm in diameter. Zip or unzip however you choose. Will you make an American football? Or maybe a jellyfish?

0 Designer: Arash and Kelly

04.16.10
Chris Burns

Categories:
Medical

13 Comments

German Laser Dentist

German Laser Dentist

I am not even kidding. This project has German people, lasers, and dentists who use lasers on German people in it. German people in the pre-cursor to the project, if you will. The designer of this project, Muna Sawas, found 50% of Deutsch citizens to be totally afraid to visit their dentist. So what’s to be done? Make a practically pain-free, totally awesome laser therapy method. With lasers! On the teeth!

0 Designer: Muna Sawas

04.15.10
Long Tran

Categories:
Packaging

21 Comments

I'll Cup Noodles To That

I’ll Cup Noodles To That

Oh Cup Noodle, you fed me all thru college when I was broker than a joke. You flavored my palette with harmonies of sweet and saltiness. How I enjoyed the gummy texture of your noodles and fondly remember burning my tongue several times because I couldn’t wait for you to cook and cool. Sadly Cup Noodle, your styrofoam packaging is a big no-no so I want to show you this one; collapsable, disposable, and much easier to ship.

0 Designers: Joonggeun Ahn , Jeongmi Lee, Hyunseok Moon & Donghee Suh

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