I love a design that takes inspiration from a familiar fragment to stimulate the viewer’s memory and imagination. Lamp Fire is one of these creative concepts and is reminiscent of the campfires that many of us experienced as children. It’s a clever way of enjoying campfire conversations from the comfort of home!
Designer: Creative Session
Coming from a coastal city, where excess of humidity (even in winters) is the problem, I simply cant relate to the fuss around a humidifier. Oh well, if it means that much to you, have a look at this cute concept called Nature Pot. It is a charming humidifier that integrates into your interior setup as a flower vase. Peacefully sitting atop your work desk or home, that moist sunny flower will sure make your day!
Designer: Jeong Yong
YoungGun Cho’s dockTRAY for the iphone 4 and 4S provides an eco-friendly solution for docking your iPhone. The multifunctional solid birch wood piece holds the phone upright while it’s being charged but with its hollow sound cavity it won’t muffle the speakers when music is being played. Additional storage space for pens and other items also make it a great desktop organizational tool.
Designer: YoungGun Cho
We have featured many inspiring kid room designs, but there is nothing like the one in today’s post. This amazing fairy bedroom takes captivating fairytale themes and brings them to reality. An indoor tree with life-size leaves, birdhouses, flower shaped lamps, mushrooms, a bean stock, they are all here creating a fantastic environment. Everything in this kids room is eye-catching and original: the shelves, the bed-stairs, the lockers. This room took about 4 months of prep work and a 5 day (14 hours per day) to install. I wish I can live in room like that when I was little… Click here for more detail of the project.
Lisbon-based photographer Jose Pombo is another light master who likes taking photos at sunrise and sunset, preferably near water. Even though he modestly refers to himself as an amateur photographer, believe us, his work is anything but amateur. The landscape photographer captures stunning images of vast seascapes that whisks a viewer away into a fantasy world. Even though you can see the bridge and silhouettes of buildings in the pictures, it is still hard to believe these unbelievable tranquil scenery existed in real life. Love these works!
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Tagged Breathtaking Seascape Photography by Jose Pombo, landscape, Nature, Photos, scenery, seascape
If you are looking for some unusual coffee and dinning tables, you’d better check this out. Mark Stoddart‘s Animal Tables are quite interesting alternative to what we see in normal furniture stores. A transparent glass table top is pierced by the body of an animal, making it look like the beast is emerging out of the water. There are different versions, like hippo, rhino, elephant and dog. In each table sculpture, the designer bolted the animal to the glass surface, securing it with handmade PTF grommets. Something like these tables will diffidently be a focal point at your home.
With his project Timeless Capture designer Brian Matanda wants us to slowdown and literally smell the roses before we take a picture of them. Our focus is on tech-specs, angle shots and apps that add artificial glam. In a way the subject of our photography looses its relevance. So let’s re-focus on the art of photography, and by the way this camera is a combination of sand blasted aluminum and polished teak and ‘strong archetypal form to produce a timeless aesthetic.’
Here is how it works:
The product is in two parts, a camera and a viewer.The captured images are immediately downloaded directly to the viewer wirelessly once the camera is in close proximity.It is also the sole access point to the images, as the camera has no LCD display. Through the use of a touch screen interface, the user is able to view the images as and when they choose.With limited storage capacity, the user is encouraged to take control of the content thereby making the experience arbitrary.
Designer: Brian Matanda
My son often questionshow can perfectly wound earphones kept in the pocket, come out so highly tangled! While Im no good at understanding this logic, but I can offer him this delightful tail! I mean the Line Tail, a cute accessory that can be used as line winder as well as a charm. Ill take the fox, please.
Designer: sumneeds
Admit it- you’ve approached a door and had trouble figuring out whether to push or pull. Even though we’ve all experienced this, it can still be embarrassing! Here’s a solution: the Push/Pull Affordance Rotating Handle was developed from a series of cognitive tests that revealed a correlation between handle shape and the directional guess the user has to make. When the user sees its flat surface they will push, and when they see the pointed surface they will pull. It’s a simple concept, but oh-so-smart!
Designer: Tommaso Gecchelin
The rocking horse is one design that has been a bit played out as there hasn’t been much variation in either shape or style since it first started appearing in homes. This abstract take on the rocker puts emphasis on the structure in a stainless steel version that symbolizes the mere essence of the classic rocking horse. The bare-bones frame is complimented by a braided leather strip seat that gives a subtle nod to its archetypal inspiration.
Designer: J.Key Schneyorson
The unique Hed Lyte (love the name!) concept by Creative Session will bring soft light and a touch of wildness to any space! The design puts a modern, geometric, sculptural twist on the popular taxidermy animal head, utilizing the elephant model’s tusks and the deer model’s antlers as lighting accents. Sure to be a conversation starter!
Designer: Creative Session
Two years ago, we talked about the worlds first undersea restaurant which can also converted to a private bedroom on our site. It is nice but not as impressive as the one shown in today’s post. The Water Discus Underwater Hotel, the conceptual design of Deep Ocean Technology is designed as a modern and aquatic alternative to the mundane hotels in the Middle East.
The grand structure features several discs both above and below water. The central tower adjoins a saucer-shaped space approximately five to seven meters above sea level with another mobile one that is generally stationed about ten meters underwater. The lower deck has the ability to resurface above water in the event of an emergency. Otherwise, guests can enjoy one of the twenty-one suites in the lower disc that offers comfort with the additional visual benefit of the natural marine environment. It will be lovely to explore the depths of the ocean while taking advantage of the warm climate.
You can call it the Scandinavian influence or sheer creative genius, but you have to hand to the Electrolux team to come up with such a catchy video that communicates this years Design Lab brief with such finesse! The theme for 2012 is to Design Experience! Inspired by the Electrolux Cube experience, Design Lab wants designers to conceptualize appliances that provide a fuller sensory experience. Watch this exclusive video that Premiers here on Yanko Design, be inspired and submit your entries latest by June 1st.
Please Note: Deadline for entries is 23:59 CET June 1, 2012 | For details and rules head here!
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In my part of the world, Credit Card scams are an everyday occurrence. So the companies have gotten smart and allocate us a one-time-pin (OTP) for online shopping but still have to wise-up to forgery and misuse in the physical world. Safe Card is a protective option that allows you to use a Credit Card only after you unlock it with a password. Offering a second tier of security is the option to enter the exact amount to the card interface, so that only the specified amount is charged.
I just feel that you cant be too safe with plastic money, heck I even have an opaque tape hiding my CVV number!
Designers: Kyoung Mo Baek, Jang Won Park & Jang Hyun Woo
Unless you live in a vibrant city like Kula Lumpur, where you have such ornate streetlamps, chances are that you are stuck with drab energy draining streetlamps. Parasite is a Photovoltaic Lamp that parasitically hooks onto existing lamps and scaffoldings, primping the old. The PV cell system is modeled on the system designed by Spectrolab.
As the designer explains, The cells are high in efficiency and use triple junction PV cells, brought to earth after extensive use in space. Their power depends on their nanotech wafer of GaAs (gallium arsenide), a modern material that has nothing to do with common Si (silicon) photovoltaic. These cells work at atmosphere 1 with extreme efficiency and can be forced further with a Fresnel lens, supporting a light intensity up to 1000 suns if correctly refrigerated. I estimated a 260-watt peak production in normal conditions while just covering far less than a square meter surface with these marvelous GaAs cells. Parasite tilts from a relaxed neutral position to 30 in order to harvest energy at its maximum, LED lights grant low consumption and produce an abundant number of lux.
Designer: Mark Beccaloni
The minimal TANTAL table is composed of just two parts: a sleek, rounded top surface and an open, chromed-out base. No seams, no joints, no complicated instructions- just pure simplicity at its finest!
Designer: Andrej verha
The Social Jukebox offers a clever way of sharing music between friends that’s reminiscent of the interactive experience of using an old school juke. Users can load their favorite tunes on wearable, wooden “tokens” that easily attach to clothing, jewelry or keychains. No more switching out iPods at parties- simply place the wooden pieces into the jukebox’s slots to mix and share! Check the vid to see how it works!
Designer: Andrew Pairman
More of an entertaining accent than a truly useful tool, the Animal Pocket Knife is for adults who still like their toys! Similar to a Swiss army knife, a variety of stainless steel heads, tails and legs fold out to reveal some of Africa’s native wildlife like the giraffe, antelope and rhinoceros. Perfect for storytelling!
Designer: David Suhami
Instead of constantly trying to wipe away the smudged fingerprints all over those shining surface, Austrian graphic artist and illustrator Ingrid Aspck instead decided to be inspired and imagined these whimsical fingerprint adventures. She says, In spite of being annoyed by them, I find them quite charming as they give this fancy technical device a human touch. By doing so, Aspck embraces fingerprints and patterns them into adorable little stories – An orchestra conductor and an audience, a rock star and crowds of fellow music-lovers, and a superhero saving the day. It is so clever and unique to create something out of those unwanted little downsides! We are looking forward to see more creation like this.
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Tagged Art, creative design, graphics design, poster design, print, unusual, Unusual Fingerprints Art by Ingrid Aspck
My designer friends are going to appreciate the 0 Point Ruler, one that gives you the flexibility to start point zero from wherever you like. The ruler is basically a pressure-sensitive touchscreen strip that has digital markings. It tanks up juice via a few good swirls around your finger and is easy to use. I love it for its innovative streak and peaceful marriage of technology.
0 Point Ruler is a 2012 iF Design Talents Winner.
Designers: Chul Sung Ahn, Chang Dae Jeon, Da Hye Lee & Hee Chul Kwak
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A Clean Label is a low cost protective label that prevents you from drinking from a contaminated soda can. If we take the user scenario seriously, I agree with the notion that we tend to take swig from the can, without even cleaning it. It’s a subconscious act and yes, we are filthyme included! This simple can-clip redesign adds a cleaning filament that swipes the can-surface clean in a jiffy. Cheers to a germ-free drink!
Designers: Meixian Su, Fengming Chen & Yujie Chen
The ZenCircus chair is a twist on the latest trend of fitness-minded furniture that makes it possible for the user to do a long list of alternative exercises like yoga positions, trapeze and balance. The hammock-style chair cradles the user in the desired position using extendable fabric that molds to the shape of the body. Use it as a hardcore workout to make you sweat or find some peace of mind in your favorite stretching pose!
Designers: Kvin Geffroy, Caroline Kermarrec and Alexia Moisan
The PFD by Sanu K R is designed to be almost unrecognizable as a life preserver. The device looks more like a stylish bag strap or necklace but inflate it and you’ve got a functional floaty that holds the wearer upright in the water to facilitate proper breathing. To inflate, simply pull the chain the break the lock- if you do wear it as a necklace just be careful not to snag it on anything!
Designer: Sanu K R
This unique ceiling installation by Studio Bernal aims to create ever-so-subtle changes in a room’s acoustic and visual atmospheres by making articulated changes in the form of its surface. Inspired the the animal of the same name, the Manta makes adjustments in position through multi-modal input including sound, stereoscopic vision, touch, and even brainwaves, changing according to the actions of the people around it.
The installation was built in Studio 1 at EMPAC, which is an acoustically inert space, so the designers were able to audibly perceive how geometry affects sound in realtime.
Designer: Studio Bernal
The “Starry Night” installations created by photographer and installation artist Lee Eunyeol appear as if the night sky was flipped upside down with glowing stars and planets nested inside tall grass or between deep earthen cracks. The Korean artist creates these elaborate light installations to generates a mysterious landscape between sky and landscape via using these unified light. Really impressive work!
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