1. Butterfly Chair by Eduardo García Campos
Inspired by nature, particularly Mexican “Monarca” butterfly, a beautiful insect with fragile appearance of its wings yet it is known for its strength. This chair is aesthetically beautiful and highly functional, the wing shape and structure provides comfortable and strong support for the user. Simply place two pieces side by side, together, they create the shape of a Butterfly.

2. Meduse Pipes Worldwide Unique Shisha by Jakub Lanča
Inspired by organic lines of underwater creatures, Jackub Lanča has come up with shisha pipe series that feature mysterious animal forms and getting alive with every inhalation. Beautiful, mysterious, transparent, mystical, relax, slow motion, breath, exhalation. The basic idea was trying to uncover the interesting process that involve inside the pipe such as bubbling, smoke, fruit mosaic and the play of lights. The combination of traditional handicraft, modern methods and technologies incorporated in this concept Shisha pipe will definitely enhance your experience.

3. Simorgh Gate Way by Naser Nasiri
A giant iron pigeon welcomes you as you enter Mashhad city. The construction of this gate has been designed and developed to take advantage the weight of cars to rotate gear wheels and pull cables which will offer unique views as the portal shape changes. You will witness a gate that moves its wings just like a giant pigeon.

4. Creative Wooden Creatures by Hakan Gürsu
We’ve covered about this project before in this page. This wooden toy allows children to be creative to create their imaginary creatures, thus developing their creativity skill to the next level. It offers unlimited possibilities from simple to organic forms, an eco friendly toy kit which has great potential to entertain and educate children.

5. Pip! Parallel Interactive Projector by Jorge Prieto
Nowadays, we depend so much on our smartphones to stay in touch with our family or office. This behavior actually keeps us away from our family in real life as the time we spend with our gadgets grows. This concept projector tries to reduce our dependence to our smartphones and increase our interactivity with others.

6. Slider Folding Bike Bicycle by Paul Hao Ting Hsu
A friendly folding bike for women. The designer thinks that our current folding bike is unfriendly to women, thus, he decided to come up with bike design for female cyclist and use gravity to make folding process easier. The main frame uses diamond shape with structure and handle place that can reduce the folding process. It takes about 2 seconds to fold out with the help of gravity strength.

7. Shayton Equilibrium Hypercar by Andrej Stanta
The vision of this hypercar came from pure emotion to design a car which was inspired by nature, from summer storm, natural pearl, to the elegance of flying falcon (Shayton). It combines both art and engineering to create beautiful harmony in the form of a car.

8. Tesera Fully Automatic Tea MacHine by Tobias Gehring
Tesera simplifies the process of tea making by setting new standards of perfect tea brewing while still respecting the tea atmospheric ceremony. Fill the special jars with loose tea, with adjustable brewing time and water temperature, it can produce perfect tea into transparent glass chamber. There’s a tray that can be removed for serving.

9. Smartstreets-smartbin Cigarette/Gum Bin by Andrew Farish
One of the world problems is cigarette and gum litters which are responsible for over 50% litter discarded every year worldwide. It needs new approach to encourage people to dispose this waste appropriately. Andrew Farish has come up with cigarette/gum bin with unique capabilities. It can be install onto a lamp post or a sign post which makes it within reach of everyone on the street. It’s a street furniture which will add value to existing infrastructure.

10. VSA – Vertical Solar Aircraft by Arman Abadi
Futuristic vertical solar aircraft which features delta wings and is able to reach the speed up to 250 to 300 km/h. The aircraft uses 3 engines which one of them is used for vertical take off and the other 2 are used to land on a runway.

You can read our top 10 selection winners from previous year, in this page: Our Top 10 Picks for A’Design Award and Competition Winners 2011-2012.

Our Top 10 Selection Winners for A’Design Award and Competition 2012-2013 Period is originally posted on Tuvie

Just in case you haven’t heard about A’ Design Award & Competition, it is one of prestigious design competitions that will make your work known to public. It has great PR push to get the world recognize your design, it’s a great chance for young designers to gain recognitions.

There are many categories available, from product design, fashion, transportation, architecture and many more. You can choose any category that you think fits you best, check it out here: http://www.adesignaward.com/categories.html. There are more than 50 categories, however, if you are not sure, you can always choose the Unexpected Design category.

The benefits of winning the competition include an exhibition, a yearbook, PR and publicity, world design ranking inclusion, and the gala night for networking purpose. These benefits mean going from zero to breakthrough in your career. Interesting? Send your work to get free preliminary evaluation through this registration page: http://www.adesignaward.com/registration.php.

If you think you still need further information about the competition, you can always visit http://www.whatisadesignaward.com to learn more.

The deadline for submission is on February 28, 2013. Lucky winners will get an early communication on March 7, 2013, and results will be announced to the public on April 15, 2013 when the award winners’ exhibition starts. We’ll also post our favorite winning designs on that day, so stay tuned.

A’ Design Award & Competition 2013 – Last Call for Entries is originally posted on Tuvie

A’ Design Awards & Competition is a competition that showcases designs, design concepts and design oriented products of designers around the world. The award aims to give its winners a greater chance of being known to the public, exposed to PR push and advertisement opportunities. Because the award supports design culture from all corners of the earth, designer have the better chance of coming up with their best designs.

A’ Design Awards & Competition is an annual design competition that recognizes the designers, architects, engineers, design studios and design oriented companies that falls under the award’s major categories including product design, transportation design, lighting, digital devices, and packaging design. If you think A’ Design Awards do not cover your design, you need not to worry because the award has more or less eighty categories in total. It has furniture design, fashion, textile, lighting, and interior space to name a few. If you are interested in knowing all the categories available at the competition, complete list of categories are available at http://www.adesignaward.com/categories.html. If you have a new design and are not sure of its category, you can always choose the 24th category in the list, the Unexpected Design Award Category.

As a designer, you should make it a hobby to participate in different competitions similar to A’ Design Awards regularly because competitions like these offer loads of benefits to you and your career as a designer, which includes fame that every designer is dreaming of. The best thing is, if you win the award at stake at A’ Design Awards & Competition 2013, you will be loaded with five benefits as the award will reward you with an exhibition, a yearbook, PR and publicity, world design ranking inclusion and the gala night for networking purposes.

With the prices and benefits a winning designer can enjoy upon winning the award, joining the completion should be his or her first priority. Let your works known to the world with the help of the prestigious award giving body, A’ Design Awards. Take a big step now to your success and send your works of to get a free preliminary evaluation by registering at http://www.adesignaward.com/registration.php today.

If you think you still need further information about the competition, you can always visit http://www.whatisadesignaward.com to learn more.

Do not waste a single minute of your time because deadline for submission is on February 28, 2013. Lucky winners will get an early communication on March 7, 2013, and results will be announced to the public on April 15, 2013 when the award winners’ exhibition starts.

On the other hand, if you were not able to make it to the finals or if you are a follower who wants to know who the lucky winners of the competition are, results will be posted at A’ Design Awards & Competition 2013 on April 15, 2013, the same day when the winners are announced.

A’ Design Awards & Competition 2013 Calls for Submissions! is originally posted on Tuvie

With 3,672 entries from 113 design institutions, 262 companies, 906 designers, 1,245 teams of 3,988 designers from 57 countries in the year 2012 alone, the award has grown to be of international significance for companies, studios, universities and designers alike. This new round of the competition is about to commence, designers, manufacturers, studios, universities from all over the world are once again invited to submit their design concepts and prototypes for evaluation.

Your design will be evaluated for its innovation, aesthetic quality as well as realization possibility.

If you submitted your work now till 21 February, the submission fees are discounted. So, better prepare your best work for the competition.

Submission dates:

Early: until 21 February 2013
Standard: 22 February to 17 April 2013
Late: 18 April to 19 June 2013

Red Dot Award: Design Concept 2013 Is Calling You! is originally posted on Tuvie

2. Jarpet by CUI Minghui, MA Yinghui, ZHANG Di, ZHAO Tianji
Visualize pets using 3D projections is what JARPET does. This device allows children to get to know better about wide variety pets. Living in big city, fast urbanization process keeps children away from natural environments, they have little to no contact with different kind animals, which is pretty sad. By using this tool, children can have good interaction and close observation to help them learn about animals behaviors and habits.

3. Float Base Station by HUANG Hsin Ya, HUANG Pin Chen
During disaster, communication is an essential key to ensure your survival and others. Float Base Station is a temporary emergency communication station for disaster area. Simply unpack and let the balloon on top inflates and takes the receiver up into the sky to get signals to be later received and transmitted.

4. GiraDora by Alex CABUNOC, Ji A YOU
During their trip to Cerro Verde, these industrial designers found out washing clothes can be pretty intensive job that burdened women of the community. GiraDora has been designed as human-powered washer and spin dryer to help improve the hand washing clothes experience with less water.

5. Herbow by CHANG Chung-Wei, CHANG Yu-Hui, HSU Hao-Po
Living in a small apartment making it hard to grow plants, but with Herbow, you are provided with the option to grow small crops outside your window. It’s a smart solution that integrates the plants with your living space, instead of making the apartment looks crowded, these plants actually enhance the view and your interior space from the rain.

6. Add Up by DENG Pei Chih, HSIEH Tsai Ni
When you travel to another country and it’s time to go back home, usually there are many leftover small change that you don’t know what to do with it. Add Up offers a great solution to that, it’s a cash conversion system that turns any small change into credit your phone or Skype points or donation. The system automatically rounds down the number and donate that small number as micro-donation. However, imagine if annual number of travelers uses this machine, a great donation can be made to the society.

7. Water-Parking Lots by Wu Fan
This is a stacked parking system concept in order to save more space in busy cities. It utilizes floating pods which can be made to sink below the surface and rise on demand, pretty cool right? It’s a vertical parking system underwater.

8. Reminding Ticket by Frank GUO, Sharsha LEE, Stuart MORROW, WANG Hung
When you travel by train, it can be really easy to miss your destination especially if you are in foreign cities or countries. Reminding Ticket is a smart concept that reminds passengers it’s time to get ready to take off by using flashing lights and vibration. Every train carriage has its own transmitter, by using RFID technology and each ticket has its own destination data, the transmitter sends signal to your ticket about 5-minutes before arrival.

9. Smart Swimming Goggles by HAN Chanhee, HAN Dhojin, KIM Juyoung, KWON Yoonjoo
This concept goggles are smart device that helps divers to capture the diving memories in photo and video format. The screen displays various crucial information and features for divers, such as “call” button to contact other divers, GPS to show your current location, oxygen level and many more.

10. Saddle Lock by KIM Jin Ho, LEE Sang Hwa, YEO Min Gu
Making a quick stop? Don’t worry, your bike will be safe with Saddle Lock. This mechanism allows the real wheel to be locked without the need for additional locking accessories. Simply swing down the seat post by pressing a button, its cut-away shape allows it to sit over the rear wheel.

Our Pick : Top 10 Red Dot Award Design Concepts 2012 is originally posted on Tuvie

Why A’Design Award and Competition?
This award, it’s not just another design competition. A’Design Award and Competition is recognized worldwide, it can be an indicator of quality, innovation and perfection in design field. It attracts the attention of many design oriented companies, groups and professionals, so if you plan to become a professional designer, this competition would be a crucial milestone in your career.

Benefits to Winners
Aside from launching your business to the next level, the intense publication from A’Design Award and Competition is priceless. They have tens of thousands press contacts, it highlights products and designs which were developed with good taste, it shouts to the world about your work, just like our recent post here. They are willing to spend a lot of money to ensure the winning designs get enough attention, you can checkout premium services provided to winners here: http://www.adesignaward.com/winnersservices.html

If you want to take your career to the next level, A’Design Award and Competition is a great opportunity to do so. All winning designs are also exhibited in Italy through the temporary MOOD: Museum of Design.

No Further Fees
As an independent designer, you would love the fact that this competition doesn’t require further fees from the winners. Yes, this means, everything you need, will be provided for free such as: winners package, exhibition space fee, premium advertising services, press release, year book inclusion, logo usage and licensing fee and many more. All you have to do is come up with innovative and superior design. A’Design Award believes a designer that comes up with innovative concept shouldn’t be made to pay extra just to receive the benefits for winning an award; a winner should be a winner.

So, ready to submit your work? It takes only 3 simple steps to participate. The nominations deadline is 30th of September 2012, you better hurry: http://adesignaward.com/submityourwork.html

The competition is organized under 80 categories, from industrial design to packaging, from interior designs to architecture. To learn more about A’ Design Award & submit your work, visit:
http://www.whatisadesignaward.com.

A’Design Award and Competition Call for Submissions! is originally posted on Tuvie

1. Tequila 29 Two Nine Tequila by Casa Xplendor
This bottle design captures the spirit of young people in a party scene. It’s modern and stylish product that represents the elegant side of Mexico. Nothing about this design says traditional or old, it brings the new concept of what it means to be cosmopolitan individual, someone who values diversity and posses great knowledge of culture and the world without degrading others. When you hold this bottle, you’ll fee that you are a part of young cosmopolitan generations.

2. Pebble by Hakan Gursu
Great mind think a like as we have featured the work of Hakan Gursu on our site here. Let us remind you again what Pebble is all about, it’s a healthy heating system that you can use in both outdoor and indoor. This green system utilizes the heating which is naturally formed and tumbled by pebbles through an electrical resistance. Pebble is great device that doesn’t sacrifice its design, this unit is visually appealing, it looks like a sculpture object in your house.

3. Vertical + Horizontal Farm Tower by Kevin Chu
This tower looks like coming out of space, a futuristic Vertical + Horizontal Farm Tower that is constructed using aeronautical monocoque wing construction. Farming industries are dying and if we keep continuing what we’re doing right now, we won’t be able to save them. Creating the rebirth of farming is a crucial step that needs to be taken immediately. This project proposes the concept of agricultural metropolis, creating farmlands with the limited spaces of the city. The concept of vertical farm is not new, however, Kevin Chu wanted to develop something more education and attractive for all generations (present and future) by eliminating the idea of farmers as low paid workers.

Vertical + Horizontal Farm Tower aims to create a farming community that education our future generation to view farming as a great profession. The tower will not only serve as vertical farm structure but also education and experimental laboratory on agriculture, renewable energy as well as social environment for everyone (farmers and local people) to socialize and learn from each other through behavioral science.

4. Teslight Floating Magnetic Lamp by a. Bosio and a. Ballestrero
This unique lamp will be the center of attention in your house. Inspired by Tesla magnetic experiments and theories, Teslight Floating Magnetic Lamp was born. It utilizes the power of two magnets, to make the lamp floats. Pretty cool, huh?

5. Infinite Steel Stool by Fernanda Marques
Just like its name suggests, you can combine multiple stools infinitely, well until you run out of stool. This stool design came up when the designer with his team were commissioned to design a multifunctional room for young entrepreneur that loves art and design. It is a seat that can be separated into several others, the user can use them both indoor or outdoor due to its main material.

6. Kitchen Train Kitchen Accesories by Ahmad Abedini
This design certainly makes your kitchen more tidy and visually appealing. Kitchen train is a set of kitchen accessories combined into one cool train-liked object in your kitchen. What a creative work.

7. Poseidon Jewellery by Samira Mazloom
You don’t want to mess with woman who wears Poseidon Jewellery. Although each piece is created using precious gemstones, it is still a feasible self defense weapon. Each jewelry has been designed to provide the feeling of strength, power and confidence for its wearer, just like the God of the sea in Greek mythology.

8. S-cube Stool, Child Chair, and Step by Daisuke Nagatomo
This chair is constructed from 60%-recyclable cardboard, talk about introducing green product to your children. S-Cube takes ordinary 3mm cardboard to the next level, you can create different form using only 1 regular box shape: a children seat, a stool or steps. The polygon blocks allow this product to be a very strong structure yet ultra light weight, we really love the colorful side, it adds a nice touch of playfulness.

9. The Booklight by Kahyun Kim
A light design that was inspired by the action of a person taking a book out of the book shelf. It’s pretty unique device, it relates to many of us as that is how we usually take the book from a shelf. The action of taking the book out turns on the light, while putting it back will turn it off.

10. Meerkat Seat Concept by James Lee
As someone who spends a lot of time of flying long haul in economy class, we can feel your pain. There’s should be a way to improve the experience, perhaps Meerkat Seat concept is the answer. This conceptual aircraft passenger seat enhances your economy class passenger’s experience while still minimizing fuel and maintenance cost for the aviation business’ sake. This seat eliminates the battle of armrest by providing patented dual-user armrest also provides better backrest for you to relax and stretch out.

Our Top 10 Picks for A’Design Award and Competition Winners is originally posted on Tuvie

On October 25, 2012, 10 finalists will be invited to join the final event held in Milan Italy where they have to present their concept in front of the jury of design experts.

Here are 10 finalists of Electrolux Design Lab 2012 in random order, you can click here to view the rest of the designs.

1. Cruet Salt and Pepper by Harry Hale
This concept is a unique salt and pepper shaker that increases social interaction between you and your guests at dinner table. Choose your favorite music from your smart phone and Cruet will play to boost your meal experience with your friends or families, roll around these shakers to keep your dinner time fun and enjoyable.

2. SaltSpoon by Barbora Adamonyte
There’s something missing from your soup, just dip SaltSpoon to dispense some salt until the taste meets your criteria. It’s not only for salt though, you can easily replace the capsules with other spices, what a handy kitchen tool.

3. Hurricane by Kuan-ting Ho
Mix your drink using Hurricane, it’s so much fun and entertaining. Just put all those ingredients and Hurricane will do the rest.

4. Treat by Amy Mon-Chu Liu
Treat, the name of this concept came from the combination of tree and eat. It combines the archaic food storage techniques with modern touch to provide freshness and convenience for busy people. Treat informs you when your food is about to expire, as your food ages, the tree drops the container automatically. There’s special mobile app that you can use to preheat your meal before you even get home.

5. Tastee by Christopher Holm-Hansen
It looks like futuristic spoon, well, Tastee is a futuristic spoon. It is a taste indicator to help chef to bring more flavors in the meal. It utilizes receptors based on the human taste bud, so that it can tell you what you need to bring the flavor out.

6. Fridge Nose by Vilius Dringelis
It’s your future fridge that let you know about particular food before it gets to your nose. This home appliance displays food information stored in your fridge. You don’t have to wonder if your food will expire because Fridge Nose will tell you.

7. Hula Washer by Sang-soon Lee
Stay fit while washing your clothes with Hula Washer. You can save money and time by utilizing the energy you need to spin Hula, this device washes your clothes. It’s a collapsible device, therefore, it’s easy to carry while traveling.

8. Ingressure by Jongwoo Choi
Having Ingressure in your kitchen means having your own professional chef at home. This device taste for you and accurately measure the ingredients of your soup such as salt, pepper or spices, it helps you cook as a pro.

9. Tempo Blender by Fu Chun Wan
You can make your healthy beverages using Tempo Blender and enjoy the music for you to shake in time to.

10. Fiery by Karen I Man Cheong
Fiery was inspired by flambé, a cooking technique which alcohol is added to a hot pan to create a burst of flames. It’s a clever twist of the invention of Davy lamp in 1815, it uses wire mesh to isolate flame. Cooking is more exciting than ever, you can impress your friends and families while enjoying the smell and the sight of Fiery.

Be Inspired by These 30 Semi Finalists of Electrolux Design Lab 2012 is originally posted on Tuvie

Another news from RedDot would be, this year, the red dot institute releases for the first time the red dot design ranking for design concepts: Compiling the most recent five years of “red dot award: design concept” achievements, this is an index of the top 15 ranked companies, design studios and universities by region, and is the most current index of an organization’s design prowess.

Professor Dr. Peter Zec, red dot initiator and president, explains: “This ranking tracks and measures the success of an enterprise in producing exciting new design concepts over a period of time. It is a good reflection of real sustainable design innovation capability of an organization. It gives these companies and institutions the recognition that they deserve and encouragement toward their continued investment in design”.

Topping the chart in the ranking’s first release is Emami Design in the category of design studio and ZTE Corporation in the company ranking. ENSCI – Les Ateliers from France and National Taiwan University of Science and Technology each led the rankings in their respective regions of Americas & Europe and Asia Pacific.

Since its inauguration in 2005, the “red dot award: design concept” has received submissions of concepts and prototypes from companies, design studios and designers from over 60 countries. The competition presents three classes of awards, namely the “red dot”, “red dot: best of the best”, and the highest single accolade, the “red dot: luminary”, to the best design concept of the year.

The ranking is computed using a weighted formula considering the cumulative number and classes of awards received over five years with a strong emphasis on recency and thus on innovation.

Apart from the red dot design ranking for design concepts, the red dot institute compiles industry specific rankings and rankings for product design as well as for communication design.

Red Dot Award: Design Concept Opens For Entries Until 27th June 2012 is originally posted on Tuvie

Designed by Thoemus, +Stromer- electric bike is your high quality mountain bike, but with its electric power, you can ride it around the town without pedaling at all. The super powerful motor provides great acceleration that you’ll enjoy smooth ride even at top speed. You can click here to checkout Stromer price.

Flow E-Bike and Stromer Bike Manufactured by Fairly Bike Won Design and Innovative Awards from Taipei Cycle Show 2012 is originally posted on Tuvie