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Once again, A’ Design Award and Competition has announced this year best design products, concepts, and prototypes. Checkout our top 10 selection winners 2012-2013 in random orders, from architecture, fashion, to technology. You can also read the interview with designers for their winning projects here.

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.

Designed by Pushstart, Hallo all-in-one VOIP conferencing hub features compact and futuristic design. In order to be successful in today’s business world, we need to work efficient and fast, this is why technology plays an important role to increase our flexibility. Using VOIP service is a great way to communicate with other team members, it’s cost effective as well as convenient. However, while VOIP services work great with PC or telephony infrastructure with expensive adapters, there are still limited standalone solutions for conference room environments. Hallo device has been designed to answer the needs of our modern business of convenient and flexible communication gadget to make VOIP conference calls a snap.

Designer : Pushstart

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Securely keep your data on your wrist with Tokyoflash Kisai Upload LED Watch. This innovative and easy to read watch features LCD display with cryptic lines and blocks that represent the time, hours and minutes. This watch keeps all your data in its USB memory in a form of a replaceable Micro SD, there’s no need to carry extra gadget. This model is available in black or silver stainless steel strap with blue, green, natural or gold LED display. “Always on” LCD display enables you to read the time easily at a glance, tilt the watch away at certain angle and read the time right away. Aside from displaying the time, this watch also features date, alarm and backlighting.

From : Tokyoflash

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This interesting Face is a combination of a flash light and USB drive. We know that this might not futuristic or complicated gadget, but the designer is able to bring cute expression into the design which makes it pretty attractive. The battery for flash light will be charged automatically every time it is plugged into a computer or any other devices with USB port. It offers convenience by combining two different functions into one small gadget, it also reduces disposal batteries to minimize damage to the environment.

Designer : Sang Hyun Jeong

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This watch is the only thing that you need in your hand (or wrist). The designer says that this is the watch of the future should look like, touch screen watch with some basic capabilities of a computer. You can literally touch any surface of this watch, it offers different functions and modes. The watch band has been designed to display a lot of things, from weather information, stock exchange, GPS, text messages, Facebook, Twitter, Music and so much more. This watch can also detect your wrist position to display any information in the correct orientation, this is very useful when you are driving a car or a bike. This industrial designer also mentioned that user can also wear this watch while working out, this gadget will track user’s pulse and emotions. Pretty fantastic huh?

Designer : F. Bertrand

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Transparent, elegant and futuristic, Multi-Touch Keyboard and Mouse are our next generation of computer peripherals. Dazzle your friends with these cool gadgets, very well made devices which are constructed from high quality tempered glass, solid metal base and finest components. Completely wireless, together with rechargeable Lithium Polymer batteries provide you the freedom to do more in more places and not having to deal with clutter of cords.

Multi-Touch Keyboard and Mouse was designed using existing technology and have been successfully funded, this means they are commercially available. There are not many futuristic gadgets that we have featured here you can actually buy, so, this is a great news.

Designer : Jason Giddings

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TokyoFlash Kisai On Air LED Watch features minimalist and simple design with colored LCD display. Designed and submitted by Iskender Asanaliev, one of many Tokyoflash fans, to Tokyoflash design studio, this futuristic watch has drawn many eager-to-buy consumers’ attentions. Therefore, TokyoFlash decided to bring this concept to reality. Most “concept to reality” watches from TokyoFlash are usually available in limited edition, including this watch, we suggest you to act fast if you want to put this cool gadget on your wrist. There are four display colors with LED backlighting you can choose from, the LCD is always on which mean the time can be read at a glance without the need to press a button. If you need to read the time in the dark, you can always press a button to light up the LED backlight function.

Designer : Iskender Asanaliev for [TokyoFlash]

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Honda has announced its new concept automobiles for the 42nd Tokyo Motor Show 2011 and one of them is Honda Micro Commuter concept. This vehicle is a micro-sized futuristic electric city commuter to provide high accessible form of mobility in the future. Honda booth at this motor show will boast the concept of “What makes people feel good?”. Through their phenomenal transportation designs, they’ll propose an exciting and fun personal mobility life to people all around the world.

From : Honda

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Tron: Legacy is futuristic and cool, visually stunning with jaw-dropping visual effects that even when there are some visual flaws, no body cares. Tron is cool, period.

Monster Tron Light Disc Audio Dock design was inspired by the iconic disc from Disney’s epic movie, Tron:Legacy. It features futuristic style and high-definition sound. Utilizing specially designed Tron app for iPhone/iPod, the soothing soft blue color lighting rings will come to live and follow the rhythm of your favorite music. Designed by Disney, this audio dock is more than just media player device, it’s a combination of technology and art that brings the world of Tron into your home. If you are a Tron’s fan, this gadget is perfect for you. Welcome to the Grid. [Click here to get more details about Monster Tron Light Disc Audio Dock]

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Good news guys, ever since we featured Armadillo folded backpack, there are numbers of you who’ve been asking where to get one. Dutch design studio Lijmbach, Leeuw & Vormgeving have shared with us the news that they have decided to develop the prototype into production. Of course the final backpack design has changed considerably since the previous prototype, however, rest assure, it’s getting larger and better. In fact, you can keep your laptops up to 15.6” in this backpack and the new compartments can be used to keep your cell phones or any other small items.

Designers : Herman Lijmbach and Leeuw & Vormgeving

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Ferrari Millenio is a design study of a futuristic electric vehicle powered by two stations (engines). It is a two-seater car, very light, and designed with strong impact from the Ferrari world park in Abu Dhabi. This vehicle has been developed as a structure of several pieces proportionally designed and well combined in one. Ferrari Millenio provides an illusion in its way of very complex assembling process, as you can see here, the front lights look like they are floating and not attached.

Just like the case of an iPhone, here’s the designer has also designed a silicon layer that can be additionally added as a protection. Ferrari = dream = safe dream.

Designer : Marko Petrovic

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Exclamation Marky Flying Robot was the first creative work of young office “Form & Drang” in Leipzig, Germany. It is actually a mascot to symbolize futuristic, quickness, youthful energy, enthusiasm, and action. The client demanded the mascot represents all that symbols in exclamation point!. That’s why the robot looks like flying exclamation mark. During the design process, the team was inspired by the actual design of computers, mp3 players, and many gadgets, because the intention was to reach young and technology interested people through this robot.

Designers : Ronny Sauer and FORM & DRANG

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Split Lifebook is a concept laptop that offers new ideas to overcome all issues of our present laptops currently have. It’s a common sight to see people use laptops nowadays. However, the unsuitable size and weight of the laptop are still our main issues to this day. Due to the improvement of a network system, most of these gadgets offer suitable user environments.

Split Lifebook concept has been designed just like a well organized cosmetic package set. Wait guys, don’t look away just because you read the word “cosmetic” you think that the laptop will look feminine. It’s actually pretty futuristic. The exterior design has the feeling of high end hand bag; you can choose the cover design according to your personal style. Since the case has been designed to be able to integrate with the gadgets, it acts not only as a protection but also as the monitor holder. Inside the bag, you can take out all little stuff you need such as mouse, keyboard, pen, monitor, etc. Take out the monitor and use it as a tablet PC or combine it with the keyboard to use it as a laptop.

This laptop is integrated with a remote control which allows you to have the freedom to listen to your music and do simple things and such even when the laptop is in the bag.

Designer : Jung Dae Hoon

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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

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