BEautiful Indoor Plant Decoration!

Designboom posts about this great decorative plant holder. There are two different mirror sets on this planter, the bigger diagonals, and then smaller ones under the plants. This reflects the growth and makes it appear bigger! The call it a "grass mirror" and it's by h2o architects.

Compact Furniture!

The Design Blog posts about a great new furniture piece. The design is great for small apartments where space is limited. I know as someone looking into a (most likely small) apartment on a limited budget, I'd definitely purchase this!

Cute mushroom hook!

Japanese designer Masako Sato creates this cute mushroom hook!

I think there's a great market for cute home accessories like this. They are unique and stylish. I could even see places like children's stores, schools, and places like that buying in bulk!

Bringing Urban to your living room

Designboom posts about the "Urban Collective," a new collection of furniture created by the emotion lab. It's a set of furniture based on urban city features like scaffolding, dividers, and lights!


Another product from emotion lab, screen light.

Blackberry watch! Jeeez.

Designboom posts about the "impulse blackberry watch." I couldn't tell if it was a concept product or not. Technically it is, but will be put into production in one year. If you have a blackberry, you'll be able to sync it to this watch. The screen is 1.3 inch.

I mean, yea, so now you just check your watch instead of pulling out a phone. But this just seems really unnecessary. Although, how much of technology is necessary. It's definitely cool but a 1.3 inch screen is super small too!

Sweet Sticker

I love seeing people react to trends in clever ways. This sticker, posted on Etsy, is called "Snowwhite's Revenge." It's $14 and currently sold out. No surprise! It's super slick and clean looking. Turn the laptop into a canvas with a nice composition! LOVE IT!

Intesting competition!!

Core77 posts about one of the coolest live competitions I've ever heard of!

Cut&Paste Digital Design Tournament had their final global competition at the Hammerstein Ballroom. "all mouse clicks and tapped commands from designers' workstations will be fed to the audience in real time."

This is SO awesome! I can't imagine the stress working in a time environment live, but I wish I heard about this before it happened!

Now THIS is what I call an eBook!

Forget kindle. I never liked them. The idea of having to read such a tiny screen and whatnot. I was always hoping it wouldn't catch on so much that books would become obsolete.

Meet INFINITY BOOK!


You get to go through the pages like an actual paper, and it has "infinite flippage" :)


This is by Ewald Neuhofer.. who didn't have a main website but found him on a page with another design!

Measuring Tape Watch!

Designboom posts about this watch concept, "ORA." I was very sad to see these are only 3D renderings by greek designer alexandros stasinopoulos!

Here are more pictures on his FLCKER!

It's just. SMART.

Core 77 posts about this old NUT BAG design from this design student. It's just SMART. A side for shells. I'd use it!

BRILLIANT!
Also learned that all the black spots on side walks are from GUM! Crazy man.

Responding to an Icon

Designboom posts about an iPhone notebook, NOTEPODS, by Jacky Winter and Inventive Labs.

I think this is a great example of how designers can respond to the current design world. They took an iconic new design product, and made something else useful to go along with it. This is extremely smart. It's used a lot in the designing of apps.. so they are making money from people who will use it to try to make money!

A stencil has also been created. This is the second one put out by Design Commission, with updated icons.

The Design Process

The Design Process

• research
• sketching/brainstorming
• prototyping
• execution
• iteration
• adductive reasoning

Cooking made easy!

This excellent cooking device was Italian designer Murizio Maiorana. It's light weight, easy to clean, and flexible for storage. It also heats up and cools down fairly quickly to make cooking fast and easy.

I really like this design for things like camping, college students, the office, and people on a tight budget!