Tea-time – Tea Steeper Design by Pengtao Yu & Yanko Design Timely Steeping I am in love with the Tea-time tea steeper for its intuitive design and simplistic interaction between tea leaves, water and steeping time! A flipping action, akin to starting the timer, sets the tea making process into action. Designer: Pengtao Yu Tea-time is a 2011 Spark Awards entry.
Yuki Matsueda - StumbleUpon ‘While most designers are busying adding more and more elements into their artworks, Japan-based Yuki Matsueda has, however, managed to let some elements escape from his art pieces. The result seems quite amazing… A vivid 3D image is successfully created and all the elements are believed to be more shocking than those stay still on paper.’
Incredible Pirate Ship Bedroom (Gallery) Designer Steve Kuhl of Kuhl Design is looking like the father of the year after building his son an awe inspiring pirate themed bedroom. The room has everything you’d expect with this motif, including a pirate ship hull/clubhouse, a rope bridge to access the hull, nautical accoutrements, a crow’s nest, and best of all a freaking slide that goes down an entire floor. Luckiest kid ever? We think so. (h/t) V.O.W N°26 // Melvin the Machine | Yatzer& photo © HEYHEYHEY V.O.W N°26 (27 June - 3 July 2011) We think of innovation and invention as highly engineered, complex systems that are built by some mad scientist in a remote space. The process results in long and layered equations, drawings and an endless source of references illustrated in a step by step process to further explain the construction of the device or machine. We have familiarized ourselves with this elaborate system through Einstein, Sherlock Holmes, even the coyote as he tries to invent ways to capture the road runner. Melvin the Magical Mixed Media Machine is best described as a Rube Goldberg machine with a twist. Created by studio HEYHEYHEY for the 2010 Dutch Design Week, Melvin was featured for 10 days at the MU artspace where 14,000 people came to see it perform. sources: Melvin the Machine
Imaginative Package Designs - Design.inc Blog Imaginative Package Designs Packaging is a very important marketing strategy to glamorize a product in order to attract the consumer's attention. Often however, packaging can be neglected by business. Here I have compiled a selection of beautiful packaging designs, some conceptual and some that made it to the shelves but all great examples of the designer going the extra mile to ensure that all important first impression is a positive one. Enjoyed This? 10 Most Awesome Floors Ever Created | Floorstoyourhome Posted on January 8, 2010 by Frank A new part 2 of this article is now posted here! Most flooring is pretty unimaginative and boring. However, the following is a selection of cool floors which aim to keep you staring at the ground; just make sure you don’t bump into anyone. Enjoy, and please let us know which one is you favorite. 1. Do you have money burning a hole in your pocket? Source 2. While there may be tall buildings popping up all over the world these days, few still have the presence of the Sears Tower in Chicago. Source 3. This is a floor that may leave you asking, “What exactly is going on in Belgium anyway?” Source 4. Your eyes are not playing tricks on you. Source 5. Lights in the floor at Finsbury Avenue Square serve to create a very futuristic and almost otherworldly look to the environment. Source 6. When you hear “concrete floor,” you might think that sounds like a recipe for a pretty boring floor. Source 7. Source 8. Source 9. Source 10. What!?! Source Discount Laminate Flooring
20 Best Of Best Red Dot Product Design Winners & Yanko Design 20 Best Of Best Red Dot Product Design Winners Red Dot Design Awards has just announced their Product Design winners. Here is a pick of my favorite 20 of the 45 “Best Of Best” winners, in totally random order. Bending bendy wood! 19) Batou CS Decoration Fabric by Nya Nordiska Textiles This versatile fabric can be used as curtains or as a partition screen. 18 ) Dyson Air Multiplier by Dyson Bladeless fan! 17) CBNes 6256 by Liebherr-Hausgeräte Defining itself as a BioFresh freshness centre, this fridge has three different climate zones with optimum temperatures for your food. 16) Grohe Ondus Digitecture by Grohe Bathing gets the digital edge with the Grohe Ondus Digitecture. 15) Velux Sun Tunnel by Ross Lovegrove Sun Tunnel takes inspiration from the sun, and channelizes natural light to the form of a ceiling lamp. 14) Fiskars X Range by Fiskars Redesigning the simple axe to look something totally cool and awesome! 13) Lucifer Drysuit by Pryde Group 12) Cosmolite by Samsonite 11) Helix by Monoqool
35+ Unique & Interesting Product Packaging Designs Whenever we're going to buy a product, especially the new ones we will inevitably pay more attention to the packaging of the product itself. Product packaging has tremendous power to grab our interest. It combines art and technology for protecting products for distribution, storage, until finally reaching the end user. Over the years, graphic designers and product designers have been creatively inventing new forms of packaging to maximize the function of a product packaging. For the past decade, hundreds of award winning packaging designs have been showcased and displayed in public. New products are invented every single day, and it demands more creativity in developing a unique product packaging design that will have Unique Product Packaging Design Ice cream cup BOBBLERS Rough Guide To Sudan Cd Cover Pistachio Packaging Design OGO Water Pack Choclate Bar Fondue Pack 3D Project 2: Floppy Disc Box Farm To City Condom Packaging School Project: Package Design Steampunk Packaging Socks Packing Note
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