Men: Pee And Wash In The Same Fixture! Lenny Bruce would have had such fun with this, but this just makes so much sense, a sink built on top of a urinal! And designer Yeongwoo Kim has made it look good, too. The theoretical sequence is that you use the urinal, then wash your hands and the washwater rinses the urinal, saving water. Since of course, everybody washes their hands after peeing, right? It makes even more sense in multiple units in mens rooms, saving both space and water. According to Yanko, it is a iF Concept Design 2010 winning entry. The designer writes on his website: To save water, Eco Urinal is designed to use the water that was used for washing hands to flush the urine. This in some ways makes more sense than a waterless toilet and probably saves as much water. More on urinals:No Splash, No Flush Urinals from KohlerWaterless Urinals Introduced for Home UseUrinals Disguised as Trash Cans: Everyday Objects vs Anti-Social BehaviorPee in Style and Save WaterPopup Pissoir Solves Wee Problem
Napkin PC (by @baekdal) #design It is the time of CES and the media is currently filled with a lot of very interesting products - but here is one that you will not see (unfortunately). It's a PC the size of a napkin. The best part is that it is based on passive screen technology (epaper), which means that it only needs power when you change it. The result is that whatever you draw on it will stay on the screen forever (or atleast until you change it) without the need for cables or batteries. This is a brilliant concept by Avery Holleman, and apart from the color epaper, all of it could be done today. In any case, I want one - as soon as somebody makes one. Note: I am not really sure that running windows on it is such a good idea - or let me rephrase that, any operating system. (Tip via email) Follow: 42Concepts
Document Extractor - Combi Monitor, Screen & Printer by Byeong Min Choe Print That Screen, Literally! Document Extractor – Combi Monitor is a screen that doubles up as a printer as well. Why? This monitor is just not a convergence product which is combined of printer and scanner. Designer: Byeong Min Choe Things My Father didn’t Teach Me, How to tie a Tie this isn't happiness.™ ABOUT ARCHIVE FOLLOW Facebook Twitter Instagram Google+ Ads Via The Deck Things My Father didn’t Teach Me, How to tie a Tie share it 3,740 notes YI Zip Earphones by Ji Woong Zip Up Tangles Your trouser fly just influenced my friend Ji. Quit smirking, coz his YI earphones concept will take care of a lot of wire-tangle-hassles in the future, if it ever gets to production. Simple thought process and application! Designer: Ji Woong
Momo Prefab (by @baekdal) #design Design Art Cartoons Cars About Follow RSS Advertise Search Momo Prefab - /by @42concepts . Written by Thomas Baekdal | Tuesday, October 23, 2007 The Swedish architectural company Grasshopper has created this beautiful and stylistic prefab. Each module can be put together using 13 different window/exterior walls (of solid wood) and 5 different interior walls. To spice it up you can add the huge "sail" to create an outside roof for your terrace. Each module is around $25,000. 3D shots Sample configurations (via TreeHugger) Follow: 42Concepts Brilliant Censorship Towel » The Eatable Cookbook » The Secret Forest Cabin, HemLoft » Indy Bag for iPad » A Heffalump Ate My Laundry » Roaarrrr!! The Real Power Nap » Iron, White panelling, Bookcase Wallpaper? Victorian Steampunk Wedding » Your Morning Mug of Coffee » WWII Navy Mines Furniture » A Cradle For Relaxation » Fioriness, Lamps in a Bottle » Bonjour Poupette » Turn Your Drawings into Stuffed Animals » Beautiful Richards' Trunks » MegaPhone for the iPhone »
15 Tips on How to Retain Designer’s Creativity An artist, whatever genre you are passionate of, would always experience a “Creative Block”. This means that you couldn’t patch up what you are trying to work on or you really couldn’t work ‘coz something inside you doesn’t have the eagerness to work! But the moment requires you to come up with a good project because a client needs it or maybe you just want to make a work of art. So what should you do to stay creative? Actually, there are many ways to spark creativity. 1. (Image: michexist) Of course, first and foremost, you have to know where you are good at or on what genre you would like to be good at. 2. (Image: one-little-thing) If you feel like you have this Creative Block, try reading so you might get some new ideas. 3. (Image: Alivewhenever) “Practice makes perfect”. 4. (Image: Creator Apps) Open your Twitter or Facebook and have a smart exchange of ideas with friends. 5. 6. 7. (Image: ezleih) Every time you make a piece of art, in whatever form it is, do something new. 8. Ads
Floating Pool Concept Could Clean NYC Waters "Like a Giant Strainer" Images: + Pool A giant floating pool just off the riverside of Manhattan - for swimming and also filters and cleans the water? Why not? The idea would be that the floating pool(s) could be integrated into any of Manhattan's riverside parks, adding an extra iconic element. The pool's configuration also allows different mixed uses: the shallower areas for kids' and lounging pool, the deeper areas for sports and lap swimming, or for swim meets as well. The pool walls consist of concentric layers of filtration materials that screen out bacteria, pollutants and odors so that the water within the pool is safe for swimming - reminiscent of an artificial floating trash island which can be constructed to purify a water body by filtering out impurities. Not surprisingly, + Pool harkens back to the old days back in the 19th century when floating spas and riverside public pools filled with droves of happy swimming people existed in Lower Manhattan.
How to make Bow and Arrow Out Of a Pen | Bored Borg See how you can make your very own miniature bow and arrow out of a pen. Just check out this pictures and video tutorial to see how! It’s easy to make an effective mini weapon out of plain old household items. A Bic pen bow & arrow is a good way to waste time at work or school. Be careful these things really fly and could poke your eye out… Soap Flakes : Nathalie Stämpfli Soap Flakes Soap Blocks instead of liquid Soaps Today, most of the soap we use is liquid soap, which contains a lot of water. Block soap instead is more concentrated and therefore has some ecological benefits: You don’t transport unnecessary water around. In place of plastic bottles you can simply use paper for packaging. The solid blocks can easily be piled and allow a greater space efficiency in a truck. But what about the usage of soap bars?
The Blog by Ziyad Nazem For most of you, it was relatively easy to sail through college. Good grades came easily, and mastering the subject material in your classes seemed completely realistic. Although it was years ago, I remember vividly the first month of medical school when the study methods I had used in college did not seem to work any longer. I barely passed my first test in embryology. The amount of material we had to learn seemed insurmountable. Early in my medical school education, the dean for preclinical years made an announcement that we should all prepare ourselves for this inevitable fact: No matter how hard we tried, we would never be able to learn everything we were expected to know. So what is the best way to study? Regardless of the study style you adopted before medical school, I would encourage you to consider alternatives. Study guides were new to me and useful because they pulled out key concepts that may not have been apparent from readings and lectures. So, be realistic.
100 Best Photoshop Tutorials of All Time that Yield Professional Results Photoshop tutorials are one of the most popular subjects on the web, as the digital art community continues to grow and new designers bring their unique skills. However, quality Photoshop tutorials that teach you a useful effect, have a quality finished result and are well explained are harder to find, and with the large number of tutorial sites available, it can be hard to sort the quality from the mundane. In this massive roundup, we’ve collected the top 100 best Photoshop tutorials that have ever been created, that yield professional results, teach you a useful effect, are well explained, and will have you designing like a pro in no time. These tutorials are collected from niche tutorial sites around the web, and range in age from creation in 2008 to a few tutorials that were created just last week. If you liked this post, check out our other design tutorial roundups: Design a Traditional Liquefied Car Create Dynamic Distortion Effects Create a Spectacular Grass Text Effect in Photoshop
Dumpling - The Backpack by Shin Ji-Young Dumpling Inspired Backpack Here’s a slightly different take on the backpack. The Dumpling, inspired by the delicious pouch foods, is a backpack that treats your belongings as color coded and compartmentalized items. Designer: Shin Ji-Young