Seesaw water saving faucet helps reducing water waste in public bathrooms or kitchen sinks. Do you know how much water is wasted while you’re soaping your hands? Normally, people won’t bother to turn off the water while soaping their hands, they let the water run for nothing, thus resulting a large amount of water is wasted daily. Seesaw faucet solves this issue with a simple design structure.
Designer : Chanhee Han
This Waxlamp design is made entirely of beeswax and wick and designed as part of July’s State of Design Festival in Melbourne. Designers were asked to explore the philosophies of environmental sustainability through their creation of a light fixture for a high-efficiency LED bulb. Waxlamp design was awarded the first price in this competition.
Designer : HASSELL
Frame-It adhesive memo pad has shapes and functions as a modern photo frame. The designer wishes that this product traces all users’ works and can be displayed like an exhibition. We usually just place an adhesive memo pad that contains our notes or sketches on a desk or attached somewhere.
Designer : Pak Kitae
Sirena trimaran yacht is a 50m trimaran, designed by Adrian Smith and Matthew Jeffrey. With an ever increasing need for more environmentally friendly motor yachts, a trimaran provides a more efficient platform for a super yacht, with a lower drag coefficient, resulting in lower emissions and a larger interior space.
Designers : Adrian Smith and Matthew Jeffrey
Modern Memorex Audio Player has been designed to reconnect Memorex with people who grew up with it. Gen X kids still warmly relate Memorex with social listening. There were no mp3 files back then, they used Memorex cassettes for party mixes and even got mix CDs as their sonic love letters. They grew up and had kids in this modern society. There are many gadgets out there (audio in particular) which are designed specifically for male market. We know that the recent trend of iPod docks that follow the Apple aesthetic are improving by days but most of them will look good in a bachelor pad more than a playroom. Neither of this addresses the needs of modern moms.
Designer : Ziba
Global Spirit Racing is a futuristic racing vehicle design for Terra Prix 2085 design competition. The automotive designer created amazing detailed background story and won the first place in community selection category with this awesome future racing car.
Global Spirit Racing (Design & Story)
Overture
This year the big Terra Prix 2085 race, sponsored by Local-Motors brings together a large amount of teams coming out from the most important world mega polis.
The number of registered participants is the largest ever seen in this style of competition, even greater than in the Intercontinental Rally Challenge and the Worldwide Dakar Championship who organize competitions on all continents throughout the year.
The competence and show are guaranteed for both teams and spectators, the invitation has attracted the best IRC and WDC teams. The struggle for victory will be fierce beating by far the toughest rallies seen by man in this century and the previous one, an unprecedented race where only the ones that can achieve a good balance will be able to finish it.
The Global Spirit Racing is a team that spectators has to keep their sights in, because the broad experience of its members has emerged as a favorite to win the 2085 Terra Prix Presented by Local Motors
Designer : Victor Acuna
Note-Taker helps visually impaired students to see their classroom presentations or writing on the board clearly. Based on US National Center research, only 18% of 20 million people over the age of 24 with low vision have bachelor’s degree. Students with low vision have difficulty in seeing visual information presented at the classroom, thus, put them at a disadvantage. However, these students are able to see at very close distance if they hold the materials just few inches from their eyes. The designers also did some researches to get good understanding of the special needs for these students to engage better in their classrooms. This device has been designed to answer the needs of these students.
Designers : Liqing Zhou and David Hayden
Nüvist is an architecture and design studio in Istanbul, Turkey that has worked with all ranges and methodologies of art. Founded by Kursad Sekercioglu and Emrah Cetinkaya, this company has released beautiful a series of furniture design which features fluid and continuous form.
Designer : Nuvist Architecture & Design
1. Ekspoze Table Design for TV Studios
The continuous shape of this table represents direct relationship with the modern era that allows a dynamic form. Remember Izmir opera house project? Nüvist wanted to reinvent the structure in different scale for this table design.
First of all we wanted to design a great surface sensation. Our curvature-calligraphic lines of liquefy surface shaped and inspired by all natural lines like from human anatomies to typographical geometries or to organisms of nature. Combinations of concave and convex continuous lines integrate each other. They bend, turn and twist in multiple directions it create organic, fluid, functional, ergonomic and sensual form.
We believe that we created exquisite-elegant design which has contextual relationship between temporal and spatial connections which provide us to create ergonomical, functional morphological surface for a furniture design.
Medical Shower is not just your ordinary showerhead. It’s been designed with a compartment where you can place traditional Chinese medicine thus enables the water to be infused with herbal remedies before it flows out through your skin. Why Chinese medicine? Well, traditional Chinese herbal medicines have been widely known to have remarkable healing abilities. It is not only meant for consumption; it is also suitable for external applications. Age-old remedies, such as medicinal bath therapies, have been extensively used throughout history. But this practice has been for less common in recent times as traditional baths can be inconvenient in the modern day context. However, it is possible to obtain Chinese herbal medicine in concentrated granules these days. They are usually packed in small bags (similar to tea bags) thus, making the medicinal shower easier nowadays.
Designers : Mang Xia, Xiaoneng Jin, Linghan Liu, Fangtian Ying, Shijian Luo, Ke Li, Fan Yang, Qingyuan Chen, Shiyi Shao, Sisi Yuan, Zhening Luo, Yi Liu, Yiwu Qiu, Xin Sun, and Tian Tan
Steam Cleaner concept would be the dream of everyone who hates cleaning up. I hate cleaning my room even though in the end the result is great. This simple task seems like a big deal to me, don’t get me wrong, I don’t like messy room either. Adriano Conti, an Italian industrial designer has envisioned a Steam Cleaner for his graduation thesis at “La Sapienza” University, Rome. This concept will reduce cleaning time as well as the use of cleaning products. This device provides a faster and eco-friendly cleaning way.
Designer : Adriano Conti
From the outside, you wouldn’t guess how visually amazing inside nhow hotel in Berlin. Designed by Karim Rashid, this hotel reflects German’s modern culture connecting with the rest of the world through its artistic and sensual design. The vision of Karim Rashid is to engage technology, visuals, textures, colors, as well as the needs to live in a simple and less cluttered, yet sensual environment.
“Design touches us on every level, and design can continue to define and shape our dimensional interior environments and create new progressive human behaviors and new languages. I always question whether the physical world is as experiential, as seductive, as connective, as inspiring, as personalizable, and customizable as the digital world. That is what I tried to achieve with nhow hotel Berlin by making a space that coexists with the data-driven digital infostethic world.” – Karim Rashid
Inside the guestrooms, you’ll find soothing and relaxing environment. Each section of these towers has different décor themes. Rooms in east tower feature beautiful sunrise and sunset color scheme, such as warm gold and pink. Rooms in west tower feature blue, pink, and grey color schemes. If guests choose to have the room with the best view of the spree river, they can choose to stay in the upper tower room.
Designer : Karim Rashid via [DesignBoom]
Vacbin is a vacuum cleaner within the trash bin. This design is based on the idea of invisible essential objects. Vacuum cleaner is one of many household objects that we’d rather hide in places like storeroom. However there are times when we need to use it and hope it would be easier to get it out. Vacbin hides the vacuum cleaner within the trash bin, an object that is out in the open. It makes the vacuum cleaner invisible when not in use, yet easily released when needed. Clever design, isn’t it? Place the vacuum back in its place when you’re done, it will automatically empty itself into the bin.
Designer : Joce Sieys
Living Roof is a futuristic compact and self-sustaining capsule for urban rooftops. It’s been designed to cover essential elements such as a refuge to recover, plan excursions into the city, or just simply stare into the stars. The minimalist interior design allows its user to focus and concentrate along with the highly efficient enclosure provide the answer to one of the impossibility in modern lifestyle: the contemporary citizen seeks mobility but also wants to tread softly on the environment. “Living Roof” by NAU offers short-term housing unit which produces more energy than it consumes.
Living Roof is intended as an alternative to hotel rooms or temporary residence for multi-city travelers. Today’s traveler wants to experience urban lifestyle as the locals do. This project counters the trend of concentrating hotel guests in tourist ghettos by spreading individual suites throughout the city. Their location changes every 2 years to provide unexpected adventures for repeat visitors. Inside the suite, guest can find interactive guide which is completed with video preview and menu listing. This information can be transferred into a PDA or other gadgets. Checking in is a simple as inserting guest ID on an external terminal. A hatch slides open, stairway extends, and a pleasant voice welcomes guest inside.
Designer : NAU Design
As the name suggests the flying yacht by designer Yelken Octuri is an innovative yacht that can fly. Octuri flying yacht can transform hassle-free into a plane through 4 mobile masts, which lowers to become the wings. The sails pull in inward into every mast as the masts are brought down for plane mode. The yacht features two main decks, where the yacht’s lower deck boasts a main room, a restroom, a kitchen plus a storage room. In boat mode, the sails of the 4 masts offer the propulsion. Each mast can be oriented separately via a double-jack system, which assures optimal positioning despite the wind direction. The flying yacht has been designed especially for the princes namely Aziz, Dawood and Hashim, corporate administrators of Masqat Airways. Perhaps, the yacht offers an exceptional sailing alongside the Omani coastline in the plane version.
Designer : Yelken Octuri
Philip Pauley has designed a survival room that offers complete protection from extraordinary natural or manmade disaster conditions. Each survival room has been designed with 70 seats, wheelchair access, and a limited amount of standing room. Once the door is sealed shut, this room will automatically switch on the light and life support system. Emergency food and water will be available for every one and last for up to 2 weeks. For basic personal hygiene, there’s a toilet and a hand basin.
The system generates breathing oxygen through the controlled release of compressed air and by electrolysis of water in extreme and prolonged conditions. Atmospheric control equipment includes a CO2 scrubber, which uses a chemical absorbent to remove the Carbon Dioxide from air and diffuse it into waste pumped through a one way exhaust mechanism.
Designer : Philip Pauley
