With spring only days away after a record snowfall this February, I think cabin fever has set in for many children and adults. As a kid, building a place to play was a seasonal event – forts in the summer, chopped wood cabins in the fall and snow igloos in the winter. Now that warm weather is right around the corner, here are my top 10 cabins I’d rather be in (if I could fit) when spring has sprung.
Use this blade of grass page marker to keep tabs in your favorite read. At first glance, I thought this was a cleverly disguised planter, styled as a book.
If tossing, stashing and piling up used hardware has become a bad habit for you, take a look at this organizer. Cut-out shapes of common parts on the top of the box and a pull-out drawer underneath for each part to drop into.
Crafted by hand, this box can be stylized for many things that you never feel inclined to sort and store, like toys, tools, jewelry or batteries.
Art Lebedev’s Segmentus Clock is a new spin on keeping track of time. Watch the video demonstrate its mesmerizing spinning feature. The successive digits appear in fluid motion, with the 1 and 7 created using nontraditional designs. Check it out for yourself.
No need for words, just watch this video.
Aspex, a leading designer of tabletop scanners, has challenged its online viewers to submit sample items that they are curious to see magnified to extreme precision. Have you ever wondered what things look like up close and personal? Well, fill out a form and send them your sample to see whatever you have been curious to view magnified.
Below are common items already submitted and on display for the world to see. A penny, sidewalk chalk, cat hair, a piece of hard candy. Maybe you can see your sample on their list of items under the microscope.
This set of images shows an exercise in packaging by Sylvain Allard, teacher at UQAM School of Design.
Each one uses only a single piece of plain white paper, with no constraints of transportation or marketing of the 2D to 3D studies. I thought it was a clever approach to training students on limitations in the world of advertising; though many of the designs are not feasible, the students gained a knowledge of volume and practice at thinking fast on their feet.
Every so often I find a really great website and have to do some catching up to get me up to speed with its past posts. PackagingUQAM is one of those sites. So here is a crash course in some of their best content to date.
(Just a warning for you non-French readers, be prepared to activate Google Translate.)
Click on these images to see inventive second uses for each one of these everyday objects. Who would have ever thought?
Having a daughter who has recently begun to read letters and numbers every chance she can identify them, I thought this was a very cute set of cups.
The Dieline included this image among others in their most recent Top 1O Package Designs.
