clever designs

Futuristic Mangrove Tree Skyscraper

by Andy Ball June 30, 2010

Since the inhabitable spaces over the planet are going scarce, it’s the right time to seek for inspiration from biological elements and to develop ecosystems that could support housing with some adaptive features. Doing just that, Chimera mimics the flexible shape of a mangrove tree to fashion or simply to propose some spiralling skyscrapers [...]

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Top 10 Creative Radiator Designs

by Andy Ball June 10, 2010

Radiators are a design feature that are in every room of our homes yet are often overlooked and hidden away. Radiators seem designed for the background. However, there are a number of clever and creative radiator designs which can make the radiator a key feature of the room which it occupies. But even this seemingly [...]

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Carnovsky’s RGB Wallpaper

by Andy Ball June 8, 2010

Check out these fantastic designs we recently came across for RGB wallpaper. They were created for the Milan Design Week by Italian studio Carnovsky and consist of a series of wallpapers that react to different coloured lights. When the colour of the light source is changed, the wallpaper shows a different image. The designs were [...]

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Rain Collector Skyscraper

by Andy Ball June 3, 2010

This is the ‘capture the rain’ eco skyscraper by Ryszard Rychlicki and Agnieszka Nowak. We have recently posted a number of ambitious architectural eco design projects from the likes of Vincent Callebaut, which have received massive popularity, so we decided to scour the interwebs for more breathtaking designs for a brighter future from up and [...]

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Future Laptop Designs

by Andy Ball May 25, 2010

In 2020 We Can Wear Sony Computers On Our Wrist:
Our present need for internet connectivity is so profound that secondary devices like the Nextep Computer are bound to be created in the future. Developed to be worn as a bracelet, this future laptop type computer concept is constructed out of a flexible OLED touchscreen. Earmarked [...]

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Change It Wall

by Andy Ball April 8, 2010

This is the Amirko ‘Change It’ Wall, a uniquely designed interior wall which allows you to switch the colour of the wall to suit your mood, and also make colourful designs and patterns. We all get bored of the colour of our room sometimes, the Amirko “Change It” Wall allows you to have a [...]

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Artistic Japanese Manhole Covers

by Andy Ball February 20, 2010

The Japanese like to bring artistic design to the most unexpected and mundane canvases. Where most people see a plain or boring necessity, the people of Japan often see an opportunity to create an interesting or unique piece of art. Following on from our post about Creative Japanese Barcodes, where Japan took the uninventive consumer [...]

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Creative Japanese Barcodes

by Andy Ball February 20, 2010

Barcodes are often nothing more than a dull emblem of our consumer civilisation. Barcodes are seen as a necessary unwanted scar on a products artistic packaging design and the last thing you think when you look at a barcode is art. But why does it have to be this way? Japanese design company D-Barcode create [...]

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