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NOTCOT.ORG. Technical Art and Steampunk Contraptions. French By Design. Looks like good Tea Infuser by Pablo Matteoda. Tea Infuser by Pablo Matteoda What a great concept! Really cool tea-infuser “Sharky” by Pablo Matteoda. “Sharky is a floating tea-infuser that looks like a shark fin marauding through the dangerous waters of your tea mug that simultaneously releases streamers of steeped tea that look suspiciously like the detritus after a nasty shark attack.” via designboom.

P_secret stash 2010 - yiting cheng. Clever and Creative Tea Packaging. Clever tea packaging and creative tea bag designs from all over the world. Cigarette Tea Bags Cigarettea are creative tea bags that look just like real cigarettes. [link] Ineeka Tea Bags Cool tea bags that have paper arms on the sides that fold out in order to make them into a single-use filter.

[link] tPod Tea Bags Small paper boats attached to tea bags by Elisabeth Soós. Tea Forté Tall polyhedral infuser tea packs by Peter Hewitt, each with a disarmingly natural-looking leaf/sprout tag. Tea Stick Cool tea bags designed for people who do not make their tea in a kitchen: gardeners, builders and campers. T Bag Example of literal design applied to a tea bag by Felix Reinki. Tea To Go Sticks Tea bags are attached inside of the tea stick so there is no need to use the spoon for stirring. Maum Tea Bags Cool tea bag designs look like people with different personalities. Tea Stick Stirrer Lighting Tea Bag Cool lighting concept by Wonsik Chae imitates the form of a tea bag. Hanger Tea Herbal Tea Bags. Contemporary Lighting & Home Accessories. Love the frames - perfect present for friends starting families! Very grateful for your fast and efficient response.

S Rose, London. Color Scheme Designer 3. Library information desk. Inspiration Pad on the Behance Network. Tapi by Dreamfarm. Water Shade by Yitu Wang. This project is completely apolitical. It IS literally a gate of water. This project goes by the name of “Water Shade” and keeps a shield of H2O around the fruit it is sworn to protect. It’s both a dish and a cover, working with water to keep freshness in and everything larger than Oxygen OUT! Designer Yitu Wang doesn’t want to keep you from your delicious apples though, so there’s a built in detector that sees your hand in approach, and thus is does desist. Moisture is locked in. Freshness is locked in. Flies are locked out. Designer: Yitu Wang. Rolling Bridge « Heatherwick Studio. London, UK The studio was commissioned to design a pedestrian bridge to span an inlet of the Grand Union Canal at Paddington Basin, London, and provide an access route for workers and residents.

Crucially, the bridge needed to open to allow access for the boat moored in the inlet. The aim was to make the movement the extraordinary aspect of the bridge. A common approach to designing opening bridges is to have a single rigid element that fractures and lifts out of the way. Rolling Bridge opens by slowly and smoothly curling until it transforms from a conventional, straight bridge, into a circular sculpture which sits on the bank of the canal.

The structure opens using a series of hydraulic rams integrated into the balustrade. The whole structure was constructed at Littlehampton Welding on the Sussex coast and then floated up the Grand Union Canal, before being lifted into position and attached to the hydraulic system which powers its movement. Go to images. X – tape, Hinge Print Tape by Hyoungmin Park & Jeongmin Lee for mmiinn. Sealing With A Hinge So far you have been sealing your cartons with either duct tape or normal transparent scotch tape. If you were to have the option of the X-tape, I’m sure you would have used it. Design is not always about problem solving or functionality. Sometimes elements of surprise, like this optical illusion “hinge” tape gives creativity the fun-edge that it requires. Mr Lee & Mr Park, how about sealing it with a kiss next time? Designers: Hyoungmin Park & Jeongmin Lee for mmiinn.

Well Done: a food company annual report that has to be cooked first. Croatian creative agency Bruketa & Zinić have designed an annual report for food company Podravka that has to be baked in an oven before it can be read. Update: this project is included in Dezeen Book of Ideas, which is on sale now for £12. Called Well Done, the report features blank pages printed with thermo-reactive ink that, after being wrapped in foil and cooked for 25 minutes, reveal text and images. Here are details from Bruketa & Zinić: Well Done, the annual report for food company you have to bake before use Empty pages become filled with content after being baked at 100°C for 25 minutes. “Well done” created by Bruketa & Zinić is the new annual report for Podravka, the biggest food company in South-East Europe. A big book containing numbers and a report of an independent auditora small booklet that is inserted inside the big one that contains the very heart of Podravka as a brand: great Podravka’s recipes.

To be able to cook like Podravka you need to be a precise cook. Dry-Tech: The 20 Coolest Umbrellas You’ll Ever See. Dry-Tech: The 20 Coolest Umbrellas You’ll Ever See The invention of the umbrella can be traced back thousands of years, but never to one absolute source. It's use has been depicted in historical texts, images and carvings dating back millennia-- to ancient Rome, Egypt, China and the Middle East.

Today, we may take this handy tool for granted. On the rainiest of days, what would you do if this tool was never created? To celebrate the value of the umbrella in modern life, here is TheCoolist's list of 20 amazing, creative and futuristic umbrellas that have taken this classic invention into wild new frontiers. The Pileus Internet Umbrella Projects the Web Ever noticed that the common texture of your typical umbrella canopy is not unlike a projector screen? The "Umbuster" Brass Knuckles Umbrella Are YOU talking to ME?

The LightDrops Rain-Powered Electric Umbrella The LightDrops umbrella does precisely what it's name implies-- it turns drops of rain into light. The Multi-Unit Superbrella. 4thamendmentwear. 4th Amendment Wear 4TH AMENDMENT UNDERCLOTHES Now there's a way to protest those intrusive TSA X-ray scanners without saying a word. 4th Amendment Metallic ink-printed undershirts and underwear. Assert your rights without saying a word. History of the Coca Cola bottle. This Awesome Urn Will Turn You into a Tree After You Die | Design for Good. You don't find many designers working in the funeral business thinking about more creative ways for you to leave this world (and maybe they should be). However, the product designer Gerard Moline has combined the romantic notion of life after death with an eco solution to the dirty business of the actual, you know, transition. His Bios Urn is a biodegradable urn made from coconut shell, compacted peat and cellulose and inside it contains the seed of a tree.

Once your remains have been placed into the urn, it can be planted and then the seed germinates and begins to grow. You even have the choice to pick the type of plant you would like to become, depending on what kind of planting space you prefer. I, personally, would much rather leave behind a tree than a tombstone. Lost & Found: Comfy Chair Cushioned with Built-In Storage.

Lighters, keys, coins … cushioned chairs and couches are notorious for nomming all kinds of things that slip out of our pockets or otherwise get left behind and slide into the cracks. This design simply celebrates that existing phenomena, like a giant-sized pin cushion. It may come as no surprised that this clever-but-boxy furniture piece was developed by architectural designers (of Daisuke Motogi Architecture), who have a knack for exposing and expanding uses for classic furnishing types. Pixel-like pads cover the entire surface of the seat both inside and out, forming slots in which one can accidentally drop a small item or intentionally stick a book, magazine, remote and more. Cleaning this piece would not be trivial, but for those who enjoy the occasional boredom-induced, couch-cushion treasure hunt, who knows what you might find that you or someone else left behind. 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. 13 sites to get your creative juices flowing | dreambeaker. By Ophelia on 2/10/2014 looking on the side FWB....... Hello, x year good old male here looking for a women for nsa situation(clean, enjoyable & safe). Anyone who are able to host comes to start fucking Ashton-under-Lyne with. i have an important pic to business. fucking Ashton-under-Lyne Heiligenhaus DE Germany, Cottondale town, Valley Hill CDP, Newry borough, Saanich, British Columbia, Atherstone, Game Creek AK, Egan South Dakota SD Friends i want sex tonight North Hyde Park Vermont VT, lonely housewives Snowmass Colorado. Imaginative Package Designs - Design. 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? Check Out - More Imaginative Package Designs.

Tea-time – Tea Steeper Design by Pengtao Yu. 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. Loose tealeaves and hot water do their steeping business and the ready tea slowly trickles down to the bottom beaker. The timer/filter hold back the leaves and your cuppa is ready to sip! Designer: Pengtao Yu Tea-time is a 2011 Spark Awards entry. Creative and Unusual Cutlery Designs. SWYP: See What You Print. Awesome-Things_5.jpg (JPEG Image, 589 × 600 pixels)