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.
Dual function to everyday items is a good approach to design. Switch plates are found in every room, and someone has taken the liberty to create a product which utilizes that prime real estate that exists around every doorway. Smart design, for sure.
The days of structurally weak, dangerously pointed umbrellas are numbered. This new umbrella design, called Blunt, takes a different approach in the redesign of an inclement weather necessity.
With rounded tips and a flexible design that withstands up to 72-mph winds, safety is the first objective, for both you and the people you walk past when holding it.
Blunt’s muscular, lightweight skin appears to look like something that has fallen from the ceiling of a convention center exhibitors booth. The vivid blue helps to visually soften each rounded point, while separating itself from the standard boring, black umbrellas. Simple, smart design wins again.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Keep a creative calendar at your desk or on your wall, and expect creative things to happen, right? Well, if that is the case, try to get your hands on one of these creative calendars.
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.
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….
It doesn’t matter if it’s coffee, hot cocoa or tea that you need this winter, as long as your mug keeps it hot and looks good doing it. Submitted for your approval: the best designed cups and mugs for 2009.
Winter is definitely here and so comes the snow. Shovels come in a variety of styles these days. Here are a few innovative ways to manage snowfall this season.
