Tuned Pale Ale has it all; a great tasting beer and fine tuned musical set included in a six-pack. Flip the carrier over and you have a drum set. Take a drink from the bottle and you have a new note, until you hit every note to the bottom. Part novelty, part instrument, but completely ingenious packaging, if you ask me.
Chance and close observation are sometimes the catalyst to the wonderful inventions we find all around us. Gizmodo recently listed the Top 10 Greatest (accidental) Inventions of All Time. Yes, of course they are, comically, not the greatest of all time, but they certainly include great stories of inventors discovering that what they stumbled upon was more successful than what they had intended on creating.
Check out the video to see why The William makes more sense than a traditional stove top range. Based on concentrated, precisely heated panels, this cooktop has it all — touch screen operation, flush, flat surface…. well, just take a look.
Good, a creative ad agency from Kazastan, has made helmet graphics better. Supposedly on a break from advertising, they decided to side track and give product design a try. The cleverly realistic, humorous helmet covers in these images wrap around the helmet to improve the visual appeal of an otherwise boring, standard safety helmet.
Masterlock has taken on a new design in the hope of attracting a whole new generation of school-goers. This combination lock nixes the numbers and relies on the toggles. Using any combination of left, right, upward or downward motions, you can set this lock for your new locker this new school year.
I think it is pretty aesthetically pleasing, and it claims to have increased bolt cutter protection and anti-shim technology, too. I remember when locks used to have numbers on them; boy am I getting old.
By simply dressing these vegetables in knit sweaters, Calgary Farmers Market is able to tell viewers that their market is open through the cold months too. Very well thought out, very well executed, I can see how this ad campaign could remind people to shop year ‘round at their fresh farmers market.
Here are a few shopping bag designs that Toxel has compiled. Optical illusion is used to gain the attention of passersby and in turn, advertising is accomplished. Pretty clever way to send off a consumer from your store, if you do it right.
I know that sushi is a traditional Japanese food, but look what a German design firm has done to bring the process of making sushi into the 21st century. This is a great new application to an established mechanism used to roll tobacco, but it is still clever.
Now anyone can roll sushi, or anything for that matter. I’d love to try to roll a few desserts, or make lasagna rolls, with this!
Save a slice or two using this banana slicer when you are making a dessert or snack. This spring-loaded banana slicer makes it easy to get six uniform slices with one squeeze of your hand. Desserts, recipes, drying fruit snacks — whatever it is that you do with a banana, you’ll never slice the same way again.
Chris Gilmore has taken everyday items and made them to scale, completely out of cardboard. The detail is great and the form is dead on. I have often seen input models made of cardboard, but these are true art.
