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07.01.09
Radhika Seth

Categories:
Furniture
Interiors
Living
Product Design
Seating

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Stool, Bookshelf, Table

Stool, Bookshelf, Table

Park your butt on it or stow some books; you got to hand it to these wonderful designers for addressing many issues at one go. For example, if you have space crunch, then this impromptu bookshelf stool is handy. Notice how the deep U-s hold thick fat books comfortably! You like modular, multifunctional stuff; check the box! Using bending technique for molding the 8 layers of industrial gray felt (stuck with epoxy resin) and 2 layers of veneer, this piece could add a third dimension to it….use it as a table!

0 Designers: Can Onart, Elissa Myres & Bethany Casperite

06.30.09
Radhika Seth

Categories:
Automotive

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Car On The Railway Tracks

Car On The Railway Tracks

Many of us park our cars at the railway station and then catch the local train to work or wherever it is that we have to go. Building on this theory is the Paracité, a single person commuter car that plans on putting the car itself on the rail tracks. Generally there is a 5 miles free space between two trains on a regular railway track. This free space and time can be utilized by these commuter cars to get people going on to their destinations.

0 Designer: Matthias Pugin

06.24.09
Radhika Seth

Categories:
Product Design
Reviews

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Ten Things That Women Want

Ten Things That Women Want

I’m not testing the waters here and neither I’m some Sigmund Freud, but being a woman I think I can sum up some spectacular ID stuff that will appeal to my ilk.

An attempt to solve the mystery of “What Women Want”; Tough job but someone’s got to do it. So it may as well be me!

0 Designers: Various

06.22.09
Radhika Seth

Categories:
Automotive

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The Car That Hangs Outta Your Window

The Car That Hangs Outta Your Window

Picture this: you walk into this hub hanging outta your high-rise apartment and then it gently glides down to the ground level. Touch ground and it transforms into this ultimate car that looks and feels SEXY! This IS the Peugeot Metromorph and it transports you thru the city with ease. I dunno about your hometown, but where I live, I got to pay premium rent for parking my car in my apartment building. This kinda concept looks at eliminating parking woes. Hit the jump to see how this beauty soars.

0 Designer: Roman Mistiuk

06.17.09
Radhika Seth

Categories:
Best Of
Product Design

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Ten Creative Garbage Bin Concepts And Designs

Ten Creative Garbage Bin Concepts And Designs

Is cleanliness really next to godliness? I dunno about you but I feel we have more messed up brains than trashy trashcans around the bend! Anyways, here’s a look at some really unusual and freaky concepts and designs that make the garbage bin a prized possession.

0 Designers: Various

06.16.09
Long Tran

Categories:
Architecture

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LEED Platinum Certified in Los Angeles

LEED Platinum Certified in Los Angeles

Cherokee Studios by REthink Development is a new soon to be completed project in Los Angeles boasting LEED Platinum certification. Huge Kudos to REthink since this is only 1 of 12 buildings in California to achieve that rating. The building won’t be completed until September ‘09 but I’m so giddy with excitement that I think REthink and whomever the land owners are should just let me move in. Better yet, lets open the Yanko Design Los Angeles branch in the building!

0 Designer: Pugh + Scarpa and REthink Development

06.16.09
Chris Burns

Categories:
Green
Technology

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Paper Paper Paper = Notebook

Paper Paper Paper = Notebook

You’ve got all this scrap paper. You’ve got so much of it. What should you do with it? Reuse it. Reuse it until it glows in the dark. With “Paper * Paper” you’ve got not only a thermal binder that makes you some quickly bound books, the package can be completely used up with the machine! No waste! The box makes the product: inexpensively constructed books.

0 Designers: Sungwoo Park, Hyunsoo Kim, Youngmin Yoon & Seunghee Son

06.15.09
Radhika Seth

Categories:
Automotive
Exhibitions
Product Design
Technology

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Swarna IDC Degree Show 2009

Swarna IDC Degree Show 2009

Besides hosting the usual buffet of seminars and workshops for their Swarna 2009 Degree Show, folks at Industrial Design Centre IIT Mumbai had a spectacular exhibition for their graduating class. Although I got to sift through the Industrial Design, Animation Design, Visual Communication and Interaction Design faculties, I naturally gravitated towards the ID section. Follow me to see the some of the innovative gems I discovered at the show.

0 Exhibition: Industrial Design Centre IIT Mumbai

06.05.09
Radhika Seth

Categories:
Cellphones
Product Design
Technology

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Easter Moai Phone

Easter Moai Phone

Here’s a phone that’s intuitive, functional and sleek; people let’s scrutinize the Easter Moai. It wouldn’t be a futuristic phone, if it didn’t have a touchscreen LCD! For convenience, all the function keys are reserved to the slant edge, which I think is brilliant. The face has just the essentials slated to the corner edge, giving the much needed screen-space that most people demand these days. It sits pretty, on a slanted dock for recharging. And when it’s parked there, the phone doubles up as a music player with bombastic speakers.

0 Designer: Joong-Ho Choi

06.04.09
Radhika Seth

Categories:
Product Design

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This Anti-Theft For Bike Relies On Good Samaritans

This Anti-Theft For Bike Relies On Good Samaritans

Meerkat is a bright, colorful ABS beacon kinda thang that has the height, sex and age of the owner of a bicycle molded onto it. In transit, it fits as a mudguard to the cycle; and when parked, it can be removed (lifted up-over the seat) to fit as an anti-theft with the bike lock. Till this bit the concept is fine; the flipside kicks in on two counts: it relies heavily on a Good Samaritan to notice the theft and report it and what do you do with the mudguard when someone else uses the bike or you grow up!

0 Designer: Simon Enever

05.26.09
Chris Burns

Categories:
Kitchen
Product Design

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Design is Best with Stomping

Design is Best with Stomping

I said that and I’ll say it again. Stomping. Design is best with stomping. If you have to stomp to make the device work, then it’s good. Unless it’s a television. This is what you throw the tiny broken tv into. Then you stomp it. With the ironically titled “Armstrong Bin” compression dustbin, you can compact your trash and get a total thumbs up from the earth that the garbage is inevitably going to fill up!

0 Designers: Sukwon Park & Sungwoo Park

05.24.09
Anthony James

Categories:
Portable Audio
Product Design
Technology

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VitameatavegiMIX

VitameatavegiMIX

Are you tired, rundown, listless? Do you poop out at parties? Are you unPOPular? The answer to all your problems is this little digital audio player from iXing. Dubbed the “Vitamin”, this tiny tune toter supports both MP3 and WMA files, features a seven preset equalizer and has USB 2.0 connect-ability. Controlling your tunes is almost as easy as popping a pill.

0 Designer: Sangnam Park

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05.19.09
Chris Burns

Categories:
Installations
Living
Seating

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Park It, Mister

Park It, Mister

Paving paradise for a place to sit. That’s what’s going on here. A project from Springtime that saves a seat for your own booty in a play on the culture-cemented idea of a parking space. Part of a design competition that aimed to give a parking space back to the public. “Person Parking” seems to be made for a low-traffic area in a strip mall district, don’t you think?

0 Designer: Springtime

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