Tag: Design
Design: Creative and Clever T-Shirt Packaging
My brain is confused when I look at these t-shirts because it's not often that a product's packaging is so much more creative and fun than the product itself, but in my opinion, that is what is going on here.
As we all know, a product's packaging can make or break a brand. With so much competiti ...
For Geeks That Love The Holidays: DIY Lego Ornaments
I'm so excited right now to write about this. You already know from all my Lego articles how much I love those little colorful bricks; however, to combine Lego and my favorite holiday, oh my goodness!
If you are a geek, if you celebrate Christmas, and if you plan to decorate a Christmas tree, th ...
The Phone That Becomes The Current Weather
While I was attending University, there were a few years when I wanted to be a Meteorologist. I've always been fascinated by weather, especially when Mother Nature becomes a mad scientist, and we see crazy weather patterns.
For example, just this past Friday, it was a mild sunny day in Georgia. ...
The Baked Table: Now You Can Eat Your Fork & Napkin
Here in Atlanta, it's not uncommon to order soup inside of an edible bread bowl in a restaurant. However, before today, I've never seen an entire table wear set created from baked bread!
Andere Monjo, an artist and designer living in Spain, created this set called "Baked Table" for the London De ...
Design Inspiration: The Sideways Coffee Shop
This is an Alice in Wonderland style coffee shop all the way. The pictures below might even make you a little dizzy! A new coffee shop, part of the Despresso chain of coffee shops, recently opened a block away from the New York Public Library at Bryant Park.
The owner, Eugene Kagansky, decided ...
Star Trek Pizza Cutter! Boldly Cut Where No Man Has Cut Before!
Pizza is one of our favorite foods for dinner, and why not? It's yummy, its convenient, and it's a lot of fun to eat while watching your favorite sports channel or movie while lounging around on a Saturday night. We always have pizza when cooking is too much of a hassle, or when everyone is tired. ...
Skateboard Skulls: Creative, Creepy & Effective Marketing
What do you do when you want to promote your skate store in a unique way that is cheap, good for the environment and that will make customers practically come running to you? Well, you do what designer Beto Janz did of course!
He carved scary-as-hell skulls out of broken, discarded skateboards, ...
Zero Footprint Shirts Made From Leaves
We write a lot on this site about ways we can conserve our natural resources and help the environment. Our beautiful earth is such a precious gift to us all, and sometimes I think we take that for granted.
Even though it benefits everyone when we are environmentally conscious, there are times, l ...
iSnow: A Snowmobile Inspired by Apple
Sometimes I think designers attach the Apple name onto their concept designs just to get attention. I mean, when something has absolutely nothing to do with Apple, yet the designer attaches that logo, it kinda makes you wonder.
That is the case with this snowmobile, but I don't care. I still li ...
Technology: Grow Vegetables Without Sunlight
I know this may sound creepy, but have you ever wondered how we will grow vegetables if there is ever a nuclear holocaust and we are all living in our bunkers?
Even if we live in a super fancy bunker like this, we are still going to have to grow food, right? I mean, we can't live on canned food ...
Gummy Bear Lego: Have Your Lego & Eat It Too!
Is it just me or does it seem like gummy bears are making a comeback? I remember back in the early 90s when gummy bears became super popular. All the cool kids at school ate gummy bears. The red ones were always my favorite.
For many years I didn't see much written about gummy bears, but now i ...
Scissor Art: Could You Do This With A Pair Of Scissors?
We've featured a lot of papercraft on this site. Some of the designs people create with a piece of paper are absolutely mind blowing. However, what if you add a pair of scissors to the mix? If someone handed you a piece of paper and a pair of scissors, what exactly could you create? These two ar ...
The Storm Flipper: A Happy Drinking Fountain Design
What a neat little design that will make you smile. We've all heard the saying, "Take that frown and turn it upside down!" It seems the Swedish architecture studio, Vision Division, has done just that.
They have taken the concept of bad weather and turned it upside down, and in the process crea ...
Design: The Little Blue Cozy Chair Created From Rope
I rarely write about furniture designs, not because I'm not interested in them, but because I don't often find a piece that speaks to me. However, there is just something about this blue rope chair that I find really interesting. To me, it's kind of like a fancy beanbag chair for adults, without t ...
Go Out In Style: The Mercedes-Benz Coffin
Here in the States, most of the time death is associated with a lot of sadness. Many people still wear black to funerals, and there is a lot of crying and mourning. However, it's not like that in all countries. Surprisingly, in many places, death is viewed as an event to celebrate someone's life ...