A pack of GIGS.2.GO USB flash drives which you can tear off to share them. The compact size (a credit card sized pack) makes it easy to carry and share, not to mention it uses low-cost molded paper pulp as its main material, a nice tiny reusable thumb drives. This concept is the answer of the challenge that small gadgets don’t have to use oil-based plastic enclosures, it can utilize 100-percent post-consumer recycled paper as well.
Kurt Rampton, the designer, says that this concept is renew...
Posted in » Designs and Concepts, Gadgets, Green
Just like Ninja, Eclipse X20 folding bike is fast and light yet stealthy enough to slip into the subway unnoticed. This bike offers super wide 25 to 107” gear range and ultra fast Kinetix Pro wheels, cruise up and down the road just like a katana.
As designers, you would probably notice that folding bike design hasn’t had any significant changes in decades. N-Fold technology incorporated in this bike is small yet crucial change that results in faster and more compact fold. It consists of ...
Posted in » Bike, Folding Bike
I’m the kind of geek that dreams about space travel between galaxies, extraterrestrial life and spaceship faster than the speed of light. So, when my favorite watch manufacturer releases Tokyoflash Kisai Space Digits LCD Watch, I scream in joy.
MZ Revival Motorcycle was a group project of 5 designers from DSK International School of Design, Pune (India), they teamed up to work on different aspects, from design, modeling, details to prototyping. This motorbike features organic design language as you can see in every element. The main goal was to design a vehicle that inspires the future design language of the German brand MZ. Which was later extended to prototype each part of this motorbike in such a way that the entire RPT can be assem...
Posted in » Designs and Concepts, Motorcycle
Hey guys, it’s just a reminder, time is ticking. If you plan to join the competition the submission deadline is on February 28, 2013 so you better hurry.
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.
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For interactive game console, Thrustmaster T-Flight Hotas X Flight Stick provides ultimate comfort to play flight simulator video games. It features any possibly imaginable buttons in a joystick where each one feels pretty intuitive. Each unit is extremely well made with solid and smooth control actions to allow you have precise take-offs and landings.
Students, architects, designers, engineers and a plethora of people carry sheets of paper everyday from one place to another. Usually the sheets are bigger than today's laptop size bags. This creates a need for a store-&-carry solution for sheets.
The existing cylindrical sheet box has a lot of issues. It damages paper in many ways. It's difficult to access either the used or the unused sheets directly and quickly. Hence we need a better design, better and simpler way.
Duo paper contai...
Posted in » Accessories, Designs and Concepts
Do you consider yourself a talented designer? Then you should answer the challenge from Red Dot Award: design concept 2013 to design a future product that addresses our needs. This competition is calling on design teams, designers, inventors, students, teachers, research institutes, design departments, architects, engineers, any one with a great design idea to take notice.
With 3,672 entries from 113 design institutions, 262 companies, 906 designers, 1,245 teams of 3,988 designers from 57 cou...
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The Polyline Desk Lamp replaces the mechanical and visual complexity of traditional task lights with the versatility of a linear LED strip and a simple, minimal aesthetic. When activated, the linear LED layout produces an area of strong but diffuse light for desk or table work, but by activating smaller portions of the LED strip, Polyline can provide localized lighting for specific tasks. This allows the elimination of bulky, expensive, and failure-susceptible mechanical joints and enables the p...
Posted in » Interior Design, Light
Diavel Strada motorcycle was born out of Ducati designers’ wish-list to design a “basic instincts” bike. Sketches were made which became the foundation of lower and longer motorcycle design, the challenge was to build a muscular motor that features delicate touch. As you can see here, the result is a frontal area that looks like a power athlete on the starting blocks. The front wheel has been designed to be really close to the body, utilizing the short tail of a sport bike, they can blend ...
Posted in » Motorcycle
Wolo holographic watch is not a new concept amongst designers, however we haven’t seen a commercially available product about it. The concept design is a bit similar to Vain Watch, but instead of square, it displays round watch face. Simply place your finger inside the hollow space, the built-in sensor will activate the display for few seconds. It’s a simple version of HOLO 2.0 concept.
Designer : Anurag Sarda
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Posted in » Designs and Concepts, Fashion, Watch
Every year, there are millions of products launched by companies, designers or innovators with different kinds of purposes, from pure business, personal achievement to attract media attention. A'Design Award and Competition has been born out of the idea to highlight the best well designed products through a fair, ethical and competitive platform for everyone (companies, designers and innovators from all design fields). It’s a platform to showcase your skills and talents as designers to interna...
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Sketch drawing is something commonly done by artists, ideas can come in many places and usually designers carry their notes or sketch books to sketch those ideas for future references. Usually these sketches are done using pencil, charcoal, or pen, but this little accessory named Sketch Finger help illustrators, designers, architects or any other people to experience drawing using their fingertip.
Sketch Finger has been developed to decrease the friction between the hand and the surface in th...
Posted in » Accessories, Designs and Concepts
Off Front Door Handle is not just your ordinary handle. It’s been designed to enable you to turn off any electrical or gas supply in your apartment or home by simply pressing a single button. Off handle is pretty handy isn’t it? Well if not for you, then for me. Everytime I go out, I always forget to turn off any unused lights, it’s wasting electricity. In this handle, there are 3 settings offered: one setting for electricity or light, one setting for gas and one for all. You can set a sin...
Posted in » Designs and Concepts, Domestic Aid
Do you know that many fire extinguishers need to be shaken on monthly basis to prevent the powder inside from hardening? Well, “Turn over extinguisher” project has been designed to motivate users to regularly shake their extinguisher by taking the form of a sandglass. Some countries even have special days to shake extinguishers. By shaking these tools, it will help to keep them functional anytime you need them.
Designers : Jin Junho, Woo Seul A and Lyu Byung Chul
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Posted in » Designs and Concepts, Domestic Aid
Many designers are trying to come up with unique next generation wheelchair concept in order to fall back on conventional materials and technology. The newest wheelchair design concept by Facundo Elias is worth appreciating. In terms of its overall design, the wheelchair features two large wheels for main support, one small wheel behind and a comfortable leg-resting pad. The seat offers real comfort, improving access for caregiver help and as well accommodates various posters that are not provid...
Posted in » Designs and Concepts, Life Science and Medical, Wheelchair
Nowadays, more and more people are inclined towards using home appliances that consume less space and serves its due purpose as well. The use of microwave oven is highly appreciated until date, except for that fact that it takes a lot of space. To cater such needs, designers of Delicious Wave have come up with a new concept called, the babsang bo, a traditional Korean cloth that functions as a microwave and a lamp as well. The designers were enthused by a customary aspect of Korean society – t...
Posted in » Designs and Concepts, Domestic Aid, Home And Kitchen
