Friday 29 February 2008

Argument Chair

The ‘Argument’ Chair sports unique and witty design, but don’t be frightened by the extreme look. It is functionally comfortable and easily becomes a favorite.
This chair features locking casters on rear legs for mobility and adjustable stainless leveling front feet for uneven surfaces.


Dom Pérignon by Marc Newson

This cooler is the first creation of the newly established Dom Pérignon Designers' Studio; Marc Newson reinterpreted the iconic Dom Pérignon bottle. The monolithic, neon green cooler is more than just a receptacle for champagne, it was made from a special material designed to insulate ice and keep it frozen better than the conventional ice bucket. This cooler is produced in a numbered, limited edition of 1000 pieces.

Nokia Morph

People from the University of Cambridge have developed a futuristic cell phone concept. It uses nanotechnology and comes with a detachable speaker that either clips onto the ear as a headset or connects to the main phone as a speaker.


The phone uses nanotechnology to provide a touch screen display that is both translucent and flexible. Hopefully Nokia will release this sometime within the next 7 years or maybe even sooner. That way we could all feel like the Jetsons.


Ipod Shuffle with Gold, Platinum and Diamonds

For around $20,000, you can pick up an iPod Shuffle decorated with gold, platinum and diamonds. However, there is no further info on this gadget. One thing for sure, I can buy a brand new car with this blinged iPod Shuffle.


Peruvian Riot Police Armos

Much of the worlds riot police gear has started to be a case of life imitating art, with ever more sinister video game inspired outfits.
However, this Peruvian gear is the most extreme we have seen so far. Its really hard to believe it is real.


Wednesday 27 February 2008

Adidas Luxury Collection

Adidas steps it up for Spring/Summer 08 with this luxury collection. Styles ranging from the Campus Vintage to the Rod Laver Vintage are hooked up with premium materials, rarely seen on the iconic models. Check for the first shoe (the tobacco colorup) to release in March, and the rest to roll out in months to come.


Ksubi x Richard Nicoll

Central St Martins graduate Richard Nicoll, and Australian raised designer, has collaborated with Ksubi to create this pair of early 20th-century futurism inspired sunglasses which come in 3 styles with black, white or clear plastic frames. Ksubi's eyewear programme has grown immensley over the past few years, and this seasons collection is no exception.


Emotible Emotibuds

Emotibuds are flexible charms that grip onto your Apple classic iPod earbuds (and many third-party earphones) and make them much more interesting. They feature the expressive faces of Emotibles (TM), cute characters fashioned after "emoticons" like in your emails and texts. Buy a bunch and let people know what your thinking behind those white earphones -- without having to say a thing!



Tuesday 26 February 2008

Vegan Condoms

Made without the milk protein found in some latexes, Glyde safer sex products are totally vegan and not tested on animals. (Glyde condoms are made of latex, and those with latex allergies should not use them.) All varieties are lightly lubricated, condom safe, and free from spermicides. Available in 12 or 24 packs, choose from: Ultra (regular size), Special (slimmer fit), Maxi (extra large), Black, Vanilla, Wildberry, Blueberry, Strawberry, a flavor variety pack, and a mixed pack of all types (3 of each). If you have a special request, such as a condom pack with half Blueberry and half Ultra, feel free to put that in the order notes form during checkout.


Diesel - Spring Summer 2008

Diesel is in a spending mood, increasing its already substantial advertising budget from 5 percent of sales to 7 percent for 2008. But the always unconventional label won't be spending it all with the fashion establishment. 



The company is planning guerilla marketing initiatives around the world and is increasingly targeting multimedia and digital communication, as well as an outdoor presence via a stepped-up billboard campaign. Creatively, for spring, Diesel is using its ads to showcaseproduct across its different collections for the first time, while tweaking the frenzy of modern, high-speed life.


Diesel tapped British celebrity photographer Laurie Bartley, who portrays a series of models whizzing through a museum taking photos, or out on the streets of Los Angeles, running while putting on lipstick at the same time. 


"We want to point at the absurdity of these situations, which prevent us from savoring them," said a Diesel spokeswoman. 


The photos will include pieces from the new Diesel Black Gold line, in addition to the other collections, but the logo appearing on the ads will remain the brand's white and red banner.


NH Nhow Hotel - Milano

It is a four star hotel with 249 rooms. NH Nhow Milano, a brilliant fusion of Italian glamour, original design and elegance, proposed by the NH Hoteles experience, combines minimalism and comfort, high technology and innovative trend of modern architecture with a taylor made hospitality concept, which anticipate and satisfy the demands of NHOW guests all around the world.  




The hotel is part of a large project of industrial buildings re-qualification in the southern part of Milan and it is located in Via Tortona 35, a strategic location between the inner and the outer ring roads surrounding the city centre.


NHOW aims to become a point of reference for a clientele linked to the world of art, culture and fashion.


Monday 25 February 2008

Modern Toilet Restaurant - Taiwan

Customers dine at the Modern Toilet diner in the Shilin district in Taipei November 9, 2007. All 100 seats in the crowded diner are made from toilet bowls, not chairs. Sink faucets and gender-coded "WC" signs appear throughout the three-storey facility, one of 12 in an island-wide chain of eateries with a toilet theme.








                                                               

Compact Bicycle

Anybody that finds inner-city goings a hassle will be with me in hoping Frag Woodall’s entry for the 2007 Australian Design Awards becomes a commercial reality. 

The Everglide is a bike that has the ability to be packed into a backpack, wheeled like a suitcase, or ridden like a regular bicycle. 




This innovative bike is aimed at tackling the problem of short-distance travel. Because of its compact size and lightweight materials it can be used in conjunction with public transport, without causing problems at peak-hour. 




If this isn’t enough, your phones or ipod can recharge whilst you’re riding, using frictionless magnetic dynamo technology. The Everglide will make trips out of the office a breeze, whilst promoting a healthy body and a planet.  




Ready-to-Eat by Corina Zuberbuhler

A frame serves as a fastener for three food dishes, which can then be safety transported to the desired location. Using Ready-to-Eat, you can eat whenever and wherever comfortably without a table. Simply place the frame on your knees and start eating.



Pencil Bench


Office furniture used to be so boring and old-fashion, yet designers are incorporating a more modern touch to newer designs. This is a good thing; we all can create a better working environment for ourselves with these newer designs. One such design created by Boex 3D Creative Solutions is the Pencil Bench. This bench was designed after having a conversation about designing a piece of furniture from a simple office object. The bench is made from 1600 individual pencils which can also be easily extracted and used. The price for the bench is going for £1200 (2450 USD).





Bibliochaise

The Bibliochaise is book storage with a difference. Apart from the fact that it has a higher than average creativity quotient, the Italian designers, nobody&co have thrown in an added utility factor by creating a literal “arm-chair library.” With the Bibliochaise, you can pick off your books right from where you are seated. Because this chair-cum-library is designed to hold 5 linear metres of books and a book-lover as well.



Sunday 24 February 2008

Fiat 500 - The Car Of The Year

Beyond its reality as a practical urban car, it was clear from its inception that the retro-chic 500 has enormous public appeal. Everybody, especially in Italy, has loved it well before it would go on sale. This cute car copies the aesthetics of the legendary 500 of half a century ago, but it is a modern vehicle in functionality and safety features, reasonably roomy for its size and shape, and with efficient engines that provide performance and economy.



Saturday 23 February 2008

Super Retro Style Sunglasses

Super, the newest project from Pig Magazine's Sean Beolchini and the Beckerman brothers, has taken the classic Wayfarer-style sunglasses and upped the ante with a virtual rainbow of unisex options—turquoise, cream, red, yellow, and blue—not to mention superior construction. Handmade in the legendary sunglass factories of Italy, each pair of slightly oversized frames is reinforced with Zeiss lenses and a gold-plated brand stamp inside. Achieve true technicolor vision with a pair of Super's Retro style sunglasses—the most buzz-worthy and color-conscious shades around. Approximately $130.


Shutter Shades

As seen in Kanye West's "Stronger" video, here's the Shutter Shades. Inspired by a world renowned superstar and fashion trendsetter, Shutter Shades bridge the gap between styles of the past, present and future. Unique in design and function, these unforgettable sunglasses are currently in high demand. Shutter Shades is available in white, black, blue, pink, red and green. Jump to see all colorways. Buy them at shuttershadesonline.com for USD 24.99 each.






Eastpack backpack with Raf Simons

Now the traditional luggage brand has gotten together with high end fashion designer Raf Simons on a collaboration collection, to be released Spring/Summer 2008. We saw a few pieces at the Bread & Butter fair this past summer and now they present the entire line-up. Interesting materials, cuts and colors make up the collection. Once can hardly recognize Eastpack, but the collection is definitely very interesting and something to look out for. It consists of bags and backpacks in all sizes, so anyone should find a favorite in there.



Thursday 21 February 2008

City Bags by Jerome Olivet

After 3 years working with Philippe Starck, Jerome Olivet design sensibility is bound to lean towards the futuristic and esoteric. Olivet is now launching his own collection of leather goods starting with a City Bag and City Briefcase. Both bags welcome your iPod and mobile phone. Protected in a black glaze skin, it ergonomically merges with your body.


Louis Vuitton Luggage for Darjeeling Limited

The film, The Darjeeling Limited, revolves around three brothers' journey through India carrying their dead father's luggage, made specifically for this  movie, designed by Marc Jacobs for Louis Vuitton.

The monogrammed steamer trunks, duffels, and suitcases play an integral role in the film and were specially designed by Vuitton using aged calfskin, velvet lining, and a jungle pattern, such as a giraffe, rhinoceros, cheetah, antelope and palm tree.

These luggage will be auctioned off with proceeds going to benefit UNICEF and the Rawal Mallinathji Foundation, a medical treatment charity in India.




Wednesday 20 February 2008

Toilet Seats by Jan Ctvrtnik

Toilet Pages is a reaction to the problem with wet and dirty toilet seats. Everyone is familiar with this situation. You are on the school or work simply public toilet, and the toilet seat is wet or dirty. You don’t want to sit on it! You don’t want to touch it! But you have to. The Toilet Pages solve and comment this situation. Why use public seat when you can have your own Toilet Pages on the pictures were made for family use but could be easily modified for places, where the small groups of people use the toilet repeatedly. Every person could have own personal toilet seat.


All In One Phone by Dima Komissarov

Imagine the device that unites everything that you carry along: a mobile phone, a player, your credit and discount cards, your apartment and your car keys. We have imagined it and now introduce you to the future.

The device in size of a credit card 54×85,6 mm will replace all those. Moreover it can work as:

- Video phone. Before making a call you can choose an operator of a mobile communication.
- All credit and discount cards that you have. The built in program will prompt an optimum variant for discounts at the given payment place.
- The remote control for any device. It can simultaneously display a teleschedule and recommendations of your favourite site.
- Keys from doors of houses and cars you have an authorization to.
- GPS-system that can automatically upload aerial photos from the Internet.
- Library, video- and music shop. You can read, listen to and watch all that at your choice. Go to a public online library or buy all that you want in any shop of the world.
- Gaming device with support of network gaming (remember that you have a GPS and the virtual reality becomes quite real).
- Even your computer that works with any operational system that is being uploaded through the Internet.




Swatch Airtube by Laurence Dawes

Swatch has built a reputation on creating ultra-simple, trend setting watches - offering literally thousands of designs to suit everybody. This Swatch looks at moving the company’s brand into the future by modernizing its range of digital watches. Based on air tube you find in most bicycle pumps, it juxtaposes two existing products in a contemporary fashion to create a very sleek and minimal bracelet watch - aligning itself with a current trend in wristband fashion.



Skype Phones

If you’re like us, you sometimes get that nostalgic feeling for picking up the phone your mom had in your kitchen growing up. But in the constant struggle to find a phone small enough so you can’t see it in your pocket when you leave the house, you probably forgot how comforting it was to cradle a phone between your ear and shoulder and talk for hours. 



Monday 18 February 2008

Moody Sensiblog

The Moody Sensiblog is a watch-like device that records and broadcasts your readings to a blog for all to read. Why would someone want to do this? The same reason why Twitter, the social community that asks one simple question, “what are you doing?”, is so addictive and popular.




Lets break this down. Say you’re playing a rousing game of tennis. An accelerometer detects changes in your motion and charts it to a blog. At the same time people may be booing or cheering you on. A microphone briefly records moments that seem to set your heart racing and posts that to the blog. There’s even an electrical sensor to detect changes in the skin like sweat to show how hard you’re working. Of course the same could be said about many other ‘activities’, say for example - bedroom ones. Do you really want the interweb to know all this? I bet you do. Freak!




I’m kidding. In all seriousness, it’s an interesting concept. Usually blogs are designed to tell YOU the reader what’s up but the Moody Sensiblog proposes readers extrapolate from a set of sensor readings to determine what you’re doing. I would imagine after some time, a profile can be built up to match data to activity.




Dinner In The Sky

A unique event meant for anyone who wishes to transform an ordinary meal or meeting into a magical moment that will leave a lasting impression on their guests!

Dinner in the Sky seats 22 people around the table at every session and three in the middle (chef, waiter, entertainer…). Just to give you an example: This means that, at a rate of 3 sessions per hour, more than 500 people could have access to this exceptional platform, or only 22 if you want an exclusive VIP event.




Dinner in the Sky is an event that can be organized anywhere (golf court, public place, race track, castle, vineyard, historical site…) as long as there is a surface of approximately 500 m2 that can be secured. Of course, authorisation by the owner is also required. Dinner in the Sky may with a second crane, or more, as you like, for entertainment such as a music band or a car that is being presented at the same height as the table or…imagine and enjoy



Wherever I Go, My Baby Goes

According to many European Pediatricians, it is safest and best for the baby to be carried in a horizontal position. The new CYBEX iGO was designed for exactly that purpose. 



The CYBEX iGO baby carrier holds the baby snug and secure while lying down close to the mother’s body. After the baby is a year old, the iGO allows for vertical carrying of the baby- facing forward or facing towards the caregiver. CYBEX iGO is available in a variety of colors and styles.



Personalise Your Toast by Sasha Tseng

Nothing gets your morning going like a cup of joe and a piece of toast slathered in your favorite spread. Of course, it can also be the time of day when things are hectic to start. Kids running around, people in and out, everyone trying to remind everyone else about the super important soccer meet after school. Next time, put it on toast.





This toaster by Sasha Tseng incorporates a little message board where one can read quick notes. The message also gets “toasted” into the toast itself so it gives new meaning to “read while you eat”.




Of course if I had it my way, I’d use it as a scathing reminder to friends suffering from hangovers. Yes, this piece of toast will help settle your stomach buy not without first reading my warnings about binge drinking.