Found Object: Shopping Cart Redesign

General Design, Product Design

shopping cart chart

Okay, the next time a grocery cart mysteriously appears on my street, it’s turning into one of these. This shopping cart has been transformed into a lamp, chair and table set. Nice work.

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Trick of the Eye

General Design, Graphic Design

At second glance these are not pen drawings; they are wall organizers. The objects blend right in and are hidden by proportion and placement. Another nice find, courtesy of Spoon & Tamago (of Davison Creators design interview fame).

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Yes, those are real glasses, cell phone and scissors.

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“You’ve got mail.”

 

Dutch Designed Delights

General Design, Industrial Design, Product Design

Webshop

ID Selection has a few designs worth mentioning. The video below is of a sand sculpting tool created by a self-described toy designer. Where were these things 5 months ago when I was at the beach?  Simple, yet effective. 

Then there are these two kitchen gadgets that are a pleasure to look at and are clever in how they function. First is a lettuce cutter, used to core a head of lettuce. And if it works as I imagine, its plastic edge can be used to press and roll circularly to chop lettuce without browning the edges. 

The second, a handled cheese grater, is not only safe but sleek in appearance. Hollowed and with a built-in container in the handle, this grater allows you to shave the surface of a block of cheese (or chocolate) and then pop off the handle to reveal a mound of grated cheese (or chocolate).

Salad Cutter  Cheese Grater

 

Camper Vs. Bicycle

General Design

Innovation has found its way into the realm of mobile housing. Designer and painter Kevin Cyr has created a functioning structural piece of art that considers “habitats and housing; recycling and ecology; exploration and mobility” in his design of Camper Bike. A condensed version of a camper built for trucks, this redesign can be pulled with a pedal-powered bike.

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Design Idea: Naturally Abrasive

General Design, Product Design, Product Innovation, Upcoming Inventions

spaghetti srubs

Peach pits and corn cobs to scrub your pots clean? That’s right! Goodbye Detergent has designed Spaghetti Scrubs, a line of naturally abrasive, detergent–free coarse scrubbers for cleaning your pots and pans. They can even be used to clean off appliances around the kitchen. Not much water is needed to get scrubbing, and then all you need is a little elbow grease.

 

Hang Dry – Innovative Product Design

General Design, Product Design, Product Innovation, Upcoming Inventions

gear tree design

With cold weather all around us, we are having to stack on layers of clothes to stay warm. And when you make your way back indoors and shed them, what do you do with all of those damp layers? 

Created to circulate air throughout all of your damp garments, DryGuy has designed Gear Tree, a coat rack of sorts. Hang any of your coats, gloves, boots or scarves and they’ll be dry and toasty the next time you need them.

 

A Celebration of Snow

General Design, Innovators & Creators

colored snow

Stevie Famulari, an environmental artist and a landscape architecture professor at North Dakota State University, takes time to color snowfall that collects on her Fargo, N.D., lawn.

Taking creative liberty to spray each layer of snow a different color as it falls, she expects to have a rainbow effect as the winter progresses. Famulari said. “We shove it aside as if it doesn’t exist. We need to celebrate it.”

Some creative people make anything their canvas, and Famulari is one of those people.

 

Kinetic Mastermind: Theo Jansen

General Design, Innovators & Creators

Theo Jansen

Theo Jansen, Dutch artist and engineer known for his wind-walking kinetic creations, is one of the most creative minds in design today. His 20-year career of creating sand-stomping, beach-roaming sculptures has resulted in having his life’s work presented in print, used in a major motion picture and even described at speaking engagements like TED

kinetic design kinetics 

The animation above shows Jansen’s most famous work, which recreates the natural movement of a horse walking. Some of the models he has created even utilize solar energy to power the gears.kinetic designkinetic beach roamer

Looking further into the work of Theo Jansen, you can find many videos and pictures showing how his creatures move by incorporating a robust system of kinetic features. This is one designer worth looking into.

 

Goodbye 2OOO’s

General Design

Hello to a new decade! This is a pictorial wrap-up of what we did, what we saw and who did it over the last 10 years. From Y2K to the birth of Twitter, take a look back at what happened in what seemed to be the blink of an eye.

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Images That Really Pop

General Design, Graphic Design, Photography

imagespop

Holographic art has reached a whole new plateau with this new development from Zebra Imaging. When trying to communicate the structure of a building, many developers build scale models with landscapes and scale indicators for viewers to better comprehend the proposed construction. By using Zebra Imaging’s holographic technology, you can render any image imaginable and create a two-dimensional study that has three-dimensional qualities. Just take a look….

 

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