Written by willbe in Gadgets
A poster-sized calendar with a bubble to pop every day, it puts people’s love of popping sheets of plastic bubbles to a useful purpose: marking time in style. Described as “The Cleverest Calendar Ever” in a review by Guy Kawasaki, this modern calendar is appropriate for any design-conscious home or office.
“Popping bubbles is something everyone loves,” says Stephen Turbek, designer of the Bubble Calendar, explaining the inspiration behind the design. “Kids love learning about the calendar while popping the bubbles. Bubble Calendar is also perfect gift for that obsessive person in your life; as long as they don’t pop the whole year the first day!”
You can buy 2009 Vertical Paper Bubble Calendar
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Bubble Calendar homepage.
If you like popping bubbles more than work you can try this flash game.
Written by willbe in Design, Fun
We all used to think that computer desktop icons looks like real folders, documents and recycle bins. Now we can see a “reverse engineering” for those icons. Yellow folders can be attached to big blue “background”.
The modern folder for the old fashioned way of filing – giving you a piece of the virtual in the real world. Write-on magnetic stripes enable a variable filing system as they can be easily exchanged and replaced. A Ctrl Z for real stuff.
These fun folders are made by German design company haseform.de.
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Written by willbe in Gadgets, Watches
This cool spy gadget looks like any other wristwatch, except it has a built in spy camera which is capable of capturing video at a resolution of 352 x 288. It comes with 2G of storage and records video in AVI.
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Written by willbe in Gadgets, furniture
The Kenchikukagu is a series mobile furnitures designed by Japan company Atelier OPA. There are a mobile workstation, a mobile bed and a moible kitchen. Everything can be folded and hidden when is not in use. This mobile bed include a lighting and a small workspace! These mobile furnitures are designed for work, sleep and eating. Kenchikukagu is available on Amazon Japan for JPY 800,000 (about $7436 US).
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Weird creativity of Makiko Yoshida seems to have no end! Cao Maru
heads are one such wacky instances of weirdest creativities. These four faces, namely Ni, Po, Ho and Gé are made of some clay-like fabric and can be distorted by pressurizing them through hands.
The Cao Maru stress balls are a little odd but we just needed to have them. made of an extremely pliable polyurethane resin these soft-heads can be squeezed squashed squished and squushed for stress relief throughout your busy day.
Written by willbe in Art, Design, furniture
Soft Shelf
Soft Shelf by Toronto-based Lateral Architecture is an interesting attempt at creating expandable wall storage. By combining accordion construction with curtain-inspired hardware Soft Shelf allows for as little or as much shelf space as needed, without increasing its footprint. Soft Shelf is made from industrial grade felt with velcro fasteners, which means that the shelf’s pliable form enables users to install it in unusual and unexpected ways by playing with the curvature of the rod on which it is installed. Read the rest of this entry »
Snot-A-Mug Egg Separator
Okay, this is definitely not for everybody but some will find it a real hoot. It is certainly one of the most unusual designs for an egg separator that I’ve ever seen. Basically you break the egg into the vessel, tilt forward slightly and egg white will drip out the nostrils while the yolk stays behind.
This Egg Separator is very well made by skilled potters. Use it whenever you need egg just the yolks or whites for omelet’s, cakes, or other recipes. Not for the weak of stomach. Read the rest of this entry »
Written by willbe in advertising
FIAT Guerrilla campaign. The sticker next to the mechanic says: “If it always happens to your car, change for a Fiat”
Written by willbe in Art, Design, furniture
Unusual corner sofa called “Canape” is a great design by Lila Jang. The piece was recently part of an exhibition called Parcours Saint-Germain in Paris.
Written by willbe in Design, Fun, furniture
It’s hard to bleieve, but this is a table. The title is “Paint or Die But Love Me”. You can see more conceptual design at John Nouanesing’s website.
