Here is a creative and smart way to feast on your take-out pizza. This new design for the traditional pizza box tears apart into four square paper plates and then folds over to store whatever pizza may be leftover. It seems like the perfect way to save on plates and fit a pizza box in the fridge when you’re done eating!
This inverter for your car is pretty clever. Sized to fit perfectly into your cup holder (because it is a cup shape, as you can see), you can juice up any 2 electronic devices and have a USB hub to boot as well. Even the logo is entertaining, mimicking the likes of a few famous coffee brands. The design makes such a great attempt at realism, it may get thrown out with some take-out if you are not careful.
How refreshing are these images? The sliced fruit design of these Kleenex brand tissue boxes are a step up from the average rectangular design. I haven’t seen them on the shelf at my local Target yet, but I bet they look just as cool in person. The real question is, are they unique enough to have people buying six at a time to make a complete slice?
Here is a unique way to showcase your love of music; a Pratesi Guitar Backpack. I thought this was a pretty clever approach to storing something — creating a case that looks like a favorite object. The design also features a built in mini speaker with an input for your MP3 player.
These sliced bread notebooks are the next best thing since sliced bread. Maybe not, but they sure do look cool. Themed as slices of bread, this set of notebooks is packaged to look as if you were picking up an entire loaf.
There is no way that you can call this a pizza box. This Norwegian design is void of any side flaps and is, in fact, not what we would recognize as a pizza box. Does it store a frozen pizza? Is it used to carry your pizza to your home around the corner? Does it have spikes in the cardboard to pierce the pizza and keep it from sliding? The clamshell design raises a lot of questions about how it functions; I am sure it explains that right on the box, but I can not read Norwegian. I think it is great to see designs like this that do not simply follow the conventional norm of how we store and transport items. It’s such a simple, creative approach to the problem of how a cross-cultural food is stored. Hmmm, pizza sounds so good right about now!
Wooden block of matches? Oh yeah, now THAT’S design! The designer claims to evoke wonder and spirit…ok, I’ll give them that. If design is done well, it takes what you may have thought to be in a finished state of design and arouses your perception of user interface. The matchbook has definitely evolved through this design.
After seeing this, you can no longer view a lighter or matchbook the same way as before. You should feel enlightened for having witnessed the rebirth of a necessity we take for granted, the portable flame. I believe this to be a solid exercise of exceptional design. I want to see these guys take on the milk carton, or the house key. People who create products like this are the ones who change user interface as we know it.
Talk about visual appeal. These innovative juice boxes are a great way to show consumers what it is they are about to buy. The detail in both the banana box design and strawberry box is awesome!
