Candle holders usually come in boring and uncreative shapes, usually as a brass stick or a little cup with a handle. They may be practical but do nothing for the decor of your home or to show off your personality.
If you think you would not have been out of place living with the Adam’s Family, then this is the perfect candle holder for you. Maxim Velčovský’s Little Joseph candle stick holder is a ceramic holder cast from the head of a toy doll. As if the idea of a candle dripping wax onto the blank face of a doll wasn’t Goth enough, Velčovský has come out with an exclusive edition of the Little Joseph candle holders. The new edition of Little Joseph, which features at Prague DesignBlok 2008, has twisted features like dolls were made of wax that has melted giving their faces a tormented expression, straight out of a horror story.
Old habits die hard and the desire for a no-holds-barred fun night with your friends in a tent still remains a most appealing idea. A tent-like setting with friends gathered around creates such a cosy environment, but managing to do this with élan is nearly impossible.
Dirk Wynants manages to accomplish this task for Extremis with a simplistic creation called the BeHive. Much like bees socialising in the home environment of a hive, the BeHive creates a setting for about a dozen people. The BeHive includes within its centre a Corral table lit both from below and above and surrounding this are low-lying lounge chairs that comfortable acquire the shape of your body as you sit on or lie across it. Enslaving everyone within the pleasing tomb is the curtain cover that can be pulled aside for some air or as entrance points.
Car designs are discussed over beers and at office meetings and car lovers never waste a moment to start an argument about which car carries the best design, is the fastest or the most practical. Perhaps the car to end all these heated discussions and leave men with their jaws hanging is finally here.
The Volage Venturi has been designed by Sacha Lakic as a joint production for Venturi Automobiles with leading manufacturers of tyres, Michelin. The Volage Venturi looks like a goddess on wheels with a design intended to wow you into silence and will accomplish this when it makes its first appearance at Mondiale 2008. Intended to be the forerunner amongst electric cars, the Volage Venturi packs 295 horsepower and 171 pound-feet of torque, with Active Wheel Technology which gives each wheel extra control of the vehicle.
Ross Lovegrove’s innovatively bizarre yet beautiful design range from Swarovski studded UFO shaped aircrafts to simplistic pens and DNA-strand staircases. The latest project undertaken by Lovegrove is to design a living space for a client with a lavish amount of money and a private mountain in the Alps.
Lovegrove’s design, the alpine capsule, is based on the client, Moritz Craffonara’s desire to sleep under the stars in the mountain landscape. Interestingly, that is all Craffonara desires: a bed to sleep in within all this beauty, and who can help materialise this eccentric request better than Lovegrove? With two-way mirrors enslaving the bed so that all nature’s beauty is reflected back on itself, Craffonara would wake up every morning with a splendid view of the Alps.
If cycling around on your brand new double-wheeled cycle is still a bore and unfashionable for you, then get your eyes on this unicycle. It would surely excite things up.
Focus Design’s SBU is a self-balancing unicycle that looks good and is much easier than a bicycle to ride. The best part of the cycle is that it does not need to be pedalled, having only footrests. The speed of the unicycle is controlled by whole body movements- leaning forwards to accelerate and backwards to reduce the speed or brake to a stop. The balancing of the unicycle is accomplished via its advanced electronics.
Life is fast and Davies might have wanted us to stop and stare but none of us truly have the time for that luxury any more. Things have to be accomplished instantaneously and they have to be done wherever we are standing at that moment.
The Nomad-Cook is a cooking unit imbibed with a Pyrolave glazed lava stone surface. The lava stone helps cook food in an amazingly short period of time through induction. The Nomad-Cook is completely mobile and easily portable so that it can be used at any desired place- on the terrace, in the backyard, in your bedroom! And you need not worry about cleaning this product because the Nomad-Cook is extremely easy to clean; just wiping off the surface with a piece of cloth is enough. This extremely stylish kitchen appliance is available in six colours and has come out with a new line for the year 2008.
Just a twist of design, a splattering of paint, a cheeky addition to something old can make it look brightly cheerful and attractive to the eyes again.
The Banpo Bridge which crosses over the Han River in the Seoul capital of Korea has been given new life with the addition of a fountain. And instead of remodelling this huge structure to fit it with the usual design of a fountain, even that has been give some change, with the fountain shooting water downwards instead of up. The fountains at the Banpo Bridge were installed on September ninth and have since become a major tourist attraction. It has nearly 10 thousand nozzles on either side of the bridge that shoots out 190 tons of water every minute.
Our kitchens are where we take all the beauty and succulence that nature has given us to try and make it taste even better. Something so connected with nature should, then, perhaps look less like giants hunks of steel.
The Fruit of Life is a kitchen inspired by an apple tree. Designer Hieu Tranngoc and Hao Tran envisioned an apple tree laden with ripe fruits ready to be plucked and consumed. The kitchen concept includes a mini fridge, microwave oven, closet and, most importantly, an electric cooking top. It also has with it, the added bonus of an LCD screen with which you can connect to the internet and access cooking tips and recipes while in your kitchen itself. Apart from looking sleek, the Fruit of Life kitchen concept is also very practical. The curves and continuous lines of the design hide closets for kitchen necessities such as cutlery.
Who wants to wear the same old glasses every day? We all want a change and it is definitely boring when something precious and damn near necessary, for some people, does not bring with it the opportunity for a change every day.
Mobile phones often come with different coloured casings so that just a change in casing can make it appear as though you’ve got a brand new phone to flaunt in front of your friends. Now the same basic idea is here with glasses. Luís Porém brings you the RGB Rainbow Glasses that is made from a continuous completely hollow tube that can be filled with a different coloured ink. The ink to be used should be water based so that it can be washed off easily and a new colour ink can be used as often as desired.
With the release of the new Sony PSP and its widespread success, you might have thought that Sony would immerse itself in celebrating its success instead of jumping right in with another amazing product.
The latest baby by Sony is a flexible OLED display that can be rolled up to become the most portable device possible. Designed by Tai Chiem, the display is infused with an electric charge that gives it a firm feel. This gaming device has stereo speakers on both sides which also work as a jog wheel and camera. The design may also come implemented with two joysticks. The design looks awesome although how ergonomic this can be as a handheld gaming device is still in doubt.
