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15 Cool and Unusual Carpets, Rugs And DoorMats. Almost all of us have carpets, rugs and doormats at home or office.

15 Cool and Unusual Carpets, Rugs And DoorMats

When you look more attentively, they are everywhere – it’s just we don’t even notice them anymore. It may seem that it’s not even worth talking about them, however, there are some really interesting facts and cool carpet designs worth seeing. Carpet history started a long long time ago – the oldest surviving carpet is over 2,000 years old. It was found in the 1949 in a Scythian tomb in southern Siberia where it had been preserved in ice.

The origin of this carpet is attributed to either the Scythians or the Persian Achaemenids. Nowadays, nobody believes in magic carpets, but there are a lot of innovative, clever and even crazy carpet and doormat designs you should see! 1. Designed by Emilio Alarcon 2. Designed by Alex Carpenter 3. Designed by Giles Miller. Who would have thought that dumpsters could be so much fun. British design graduate Oliver Bishop-Young has come up with an urban art project, called the SkipWaste project, where dumpsters are used in a fun and different way.

Who would have thought that dumpsters could be so much fun

They are no longer used for trash, but for activities and other amazing art installations. You have dumpsters that work as either a skate ramp, a lawn, a flower bed, a pool, or even a cozy living room. They appeal to everybody, both the younger and the older. It’s a great way to get people out on the streets enjoying the fun that the dumpsters are giving. Others have also used simple objects to create urban art, like the four Australian friends that created a huge “Lego Man” out of ordinary milk crates. The Doily Globe Lamp. A pendant lamp made from vintage doilies by Shannon South.

The Doily Globe Lamp

Notes from the artist (from blog post “Upcycled Doily Lamp“): I’ve been collecting vintage crochet doilies for several months, with plans to make this pendant lamp. Finally, now that the holidays are over and things have slowed down a bit, I took the time to make my first prototype. There are a few things I need to work out, but overall I am very pleased with how it turned out. The shadows that it creates on the ceiling and walls are just gorgeous. Photos © Shannon South Link via Dudecraft. 20 Cool Modern Lamp Designs. It is very difficult to say when and where the first lamp was used, but they are mentioned in all three early ages – lamps were used in Egypt, Greece, and Rome.

20 Cool Modern Lamp Designs

It may sound unbelievable, but scientists say that the lamp was invented and first used around 70,000 BC! Back then they were made of naturally occurring objects – coconuts, sea shells, hollow stones or similar objects filled with moss or a similar material that was soaked with animal fat and ignited. [1 2] First electric lamp was invented in England in 1809 by Humpry Davy.

He connected two wires to a battery and attached a charcoal strip between the other ends of the wires. The charged carbon glowed making the first arc lamp. 70 years later in 1879 - Thomas Edison invented a carbon filament that burned for forty hours. Nowadays, lamps burn much longer, shine brighter, and use less energy than ever before. 1. Designer: Matthew Kinealy 2. Designer:unknown 3. Designer: Peter Castellucci 4. Designer: kyouei design 5. 6. 25 Super Creative Product Packaging Designs. According to Wikipedia, packaging is the science, art and technology of enclosing or protecting products for distribution, storage, sale, and use.[1].

25 Super Creative Product Packaging Designs

However, we are so used to the common every day’s packaging designs, that we don’t even notice all the hard work put in creating them. I bet that even the simplest milk package standing in your fridge took many hours or even days to get its final shape. Strangely enough, because most people judge a product by its packaging, the packaging can cost even more than the product itself. In the end, almost any mediocre product packed in a fancy package would win against the best product in a lame package. Here are 25 creative packaging design examples that would definitely make you want to buy these products. Caffeinated Energy Drink Kitchen Sponge Nike Stadium Shoe Box Advertising Agency: Publicis, Singapore Six Feet Under DVD Box Fruit Juice Packaging Designed by Naoto Fukasawa Milk Carton Designed by Julien De Repentigny & Gabriel Lefebvre Tea Hangers. Brain Cube – Un Rubik’s Cube en forme de cerveau.

Octopus Chair – Une Pieuvre Géante dans le Salon. Octopus Chair – Une Pieuvre Géante dans le Salon “Octopus Chair” est un projet de design imaginé par l’artiste Maximo Riera.

Octopus Chair – Une Pieuvre Géante dans le Salon

Mélange en un meuble de salon et un animal massif, cette “Octopus Chair” fait partie d’une série de créations fusionnant animaux et mobilier. Avoir cette chaise dans son salon doit être assez… déroutant pour les invités… ceux-ci préféreront certainement s'installer sur le canapé du salon ;)