Category: design
San Francisco Student Designs KAWS Clock
May 16, 2012A San Francisco Academy of Art student named Bej created this KAWS-inspired clock for a package design assignment. She calls it Dissection of a Klock and says: “My clock design was inspired by KAWS studio’s Dissected Companion. I used OriginalFake … Continue reading
Warstic Designs Classic Wooden Baseball Bats for Color Lovers
May 7, 2012Here’s a home run of a product design that’s for athletes and aesthetes! I don’t think I’ve ever called a piece of sporting equipment beautiful before, but these color-stained wood bats from Warstic definitely fit the description. Warstic makes the bats in … Continue reading
Wieden + Kennedy Avengers Assemble Campaign
May 1, 2012Portland-based advertising agency, Wieden + Kennedy, created the Avengers Assemble ad campaign for Target. The premise, “A Superhero in Every Aisle” is illustrated by combining everyday objects (pencils, miniature Mr. Goodbars, soda cans and small toys) into larger forces with which … Continue reading
Classic Painters Pinned and Dissected
May 1, 2012Portuguese creative agency, DDB Brazil, designed these amazing adverts for the Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP) Art School. The three ads depict Salvador Dali, Vincent Van Gogh and Pablo Picasso pinned akimbo for dissection. Their internal organs, naturally, match each painter’s personal style. … Continue reading
Pete Fowler Collaborates With Post Living on Owlers Tables
May 1, 2012Pete Fowler has collaborated with UK-based Post Living on a line of tables based on his iPad drawings. Fowler is one of the character designers who shaped the toy art genre. His hybrid creatures are recognizable whether generated on a sketch pad … Continue reading
The Gunshot Doorknob
April 26, 2012Hyunwoo Park, designer of the (conceptual) Gunshot Doorknob writes: I agree that we have enough of violence that permeates our subconscious mind. But for those who love lightsabers and think BB Guns are good fun, a quirky knob will be … Continue reading
Hans Hemmert Stands Up to Elevator Shoes
April 25, 2012There are a ton of products on the market that prey on people who are “vertically challenged”. These are usually in the form of insoles or shoes that make you taller. One popular brand of discrete height enhancers has this … Continue reading
The Peace Drone: A Proposal to the US Armed Forces
April 25, 2012Axel Brechensbauer is a Barcelona-based designer who has come up with a plan for world peace that is more Hirst (as in Damien) than it is Hippie (as in this). I’ll let him describe it: Killing foreign people with predator … Continue reading
Fry Up Mini Furniture-Shaped Cakes With This Innovative Pan
April 23, 2012Two designers have engineered a waffle iron that makes miniature edible tables and chairs. They call their invention, Sapore dei Mobili, which is Italian for “flavor of furniture”. Ryosuke Fukusada and Rui Pereira came from Japan and Portugal (respectively) to Italy to … Continue reading
Furry Monster Tissue Boxes from Japan
April 21, 2012Instinctoy in Japan is expanding their range from the vinyl toys I love to the wide-open field of housewares. They’ll be making this leap into lifestyle products very soon with these furry tissue boxes as their debut. There will be … Continue reading
