3rd Wave of Inspiration
Since 2003
Three Hyper Island students (Caio Andrade, Rafael Ochoa, and Linn Livijn Wexell) dreamed up the idea of making “Not Available on the App Store” stickers as a friendly reminder to get kids away from the screen and into the real world. Stickers are available for purchase or you can make your own. via Colossal
Internet is run by cats. No doubts. Chineses designer from Lycs Architecture - Ruan Hao created a special table for their perpetual curiosity. CATable will probably save you from the sentimental ritual to put away the cat from your laptop.
Vlad Mishin is a Russian designer filled with creativity. His latest project called Transformer Apartment is a 60-square-meter flat converted into a modular and functional apartment. This apartment is cut in half by a massive wooden and black metal framework which opens and rotates to show the different zones of the flat.
Created by Amsterdam-based director and animator Andre Maat, this quick animated short titled Woodoo relies on impressive sequences of laser-cut wood to create the illusion of a malliable substance. via Colossal
Zero Emission is not a dream or a nightmare for state oil corporations - it is a responsibility. Few can take it and develop a product from a scratch, a new way of moving our relentless lazy bodies from point A to B. Johann Hammerschmid and his Austrian team created Johammer J1 electric chopper that squeeze the AB distance to 200km for a one battery charge.
The year 2014 is the last break point on the way to omni-channel digital world were device is no more a single way to communicate with information and data. Here is a new concept of Mobile-powered product design system named "SEED" developed by South Africa-based computer engineering student Nick Rout. Some of you might remember Phonebloks concept acquired by Motorola and merged to still-upcoming Moto Aga project.
Presented by Pivot Dublin and Dublin City Council and directed by Johnny Kelly a short film "Shape" is a project to get young people thinking about how the world is made around them and where design fits in.
http://vimeo.com/90208216
Greg Papove is a designer based in Vancouver, British Columbia who works on a different urban and home project with a great sense of humour and humanity
I post this just because it flows my way of mobile living and contemporary furniture design. Take a look on the latest IKEA PS 2014 collection, themed “On the Move,” created specifically for the young, urban crowd living in smaller spaces. The collection was inspired by homes – and homeowners – that are in constant motion. Below we post some pictures from the collection and you can also read a series of interviews done by Core77 portal with IKEA PS designers.
Gábor Balogh is a freelance designer from Hungary who, like many of us, wants an attractive, watch-like watch that just happens to be smart. The difference between Balogh and the rest of us is he went ahead and designed an interface he believes could enable regular watch designs to include a full bevy of smart features. https://www.behance.net/gallery/Smartwatch-Concept/14929833 The actual watch pictured in the mockups is almost incidental, as the concept simply takes the Swedish watchmaker Triwa's Havana timepiece (with the company's permission) and replaces its face with a circular display. This proposal is about interface paradigms, not product design. "In this concept the UI does not have a predefined style," says Balogh, "but it would match the housing. Only the navigational patterns have to be taken into consideration."
Text by The Verge
The General Motors Advanced Design Studio approached Munkowitz aka GMUNK to concept and design the driver console and touch screen UI for their upcoming Cadillac concept car, the Elmiraj. The goal was to create an experience that utilized a multitude of future driving technologies while still maintaining the elegance and luxury of the Cadillac brand.. Munko was freelancing with the Autofuss collective and deep into finishing BOX at the time, so he built a small Seal Team consisting of the talented Conor Greeble and Jason English Kerr, and brought back old-schooler Joseph Chanimal as well.. Together they fabricated a very compelling glimpse into the future of Car UI, stressing real-world functionality set within a very distinct future-forward style and palette..
Read more about the concept on GMUNK's website
What a Roman Holiday without noisy Italian scooter and shiny gloss helmets? Now add the next ingredient - shake but don't stir. That is Vespa Cam, a concept made by students Rotimi Solola and Cait Miklasz. According to the design duo, the camera will have a Vespa rectangular thin streamlined body, a large touch-finder, a curved shape and a fresh mint colour.
Some instant summer anyone? I'll take a box of it! "Sunlight Pills" created by Vaulot and Dyevre contains the sunshine from Borabora to the Maldives, Haiti and the Bahamas is available as a healthy little pill. Though be careful and don’t exceed the recommended daily dose. (Don't even think to steal the idea for some travel agency, we are watching you :)
As a daydreamer I often imagine my ideal house during the routine, placing objects I adore on the web to its corners. Yesterday I found my perfect door created by Austrian artist Klemens Torggler and titled "Evolution Door". I can watch it in action for eternity. Torggler calls this system a “flip panel door” (Drehplattentür), and it’s almost more of a kinetic sculpture than functional door.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=umfvm8I9_oU
Based in Tbilisi, Georgia, design studio ‘XYZ Integrated Architecture’ has an affinity for tilted axes and acute angles. The studio’s characteristic approach is ever-present in their series of furniture, namely chairs and tables, which have been designed to tilt as if they are collapsing on one side. 
Google Glass has released its second generation eyewear collection with a new range of titanium headsets. The “Titanium Collection” features the latest hardware update and a range of new styles including the “Edge” and “Classic” twist-on sunglasses, and the “Split” and “Curve” feather-light titanium prescription frames. The new range is available in five new colorways and includes an external mono earbud instead of the bone-conduction speaker from the first version. via
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eneEmDtSvzI
A Japanese designer Tota Hasegawa creates eyewear line from the two most famous and mainstream typefaces in the world: Helvetica and Garamond "Just as Helvetica is a font for the unpresumptuous, the Helvetica glasses are for people who don't want to be thought of as wearing glasses... The character of the Garamond glasses is quite different: they are for bookish intellectuals who revel in wearing a pair of specs" says Fast Co
At the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, 3D Systems showcased the world's first 3D food printers. Called Chefjet and Chefjet Pro, the innovative machines are capable of producing an amazing array of delicious goodies in 3D geometric form.
When speaking about the products, Liz von Hasseln, 3D Systems' Creative Director Food Products explains, “The machine uses an ink jet print head that's just like the one you would find in your desktop 2D printer. It spreads a very fine layer of sugar then paints water onto the surface of the sugar, and that water allows the sugar to re-crystalize and harden to form these complex geometries."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFH7lqLP-AQ
Talented StPete based designer Lesha Galkin from Dopludo was commissioned by "Pimp Your Eyes" eyewear store to create sales point at Moscow FLACON Design Factory. The idea came quickly - modular parts of a spaceship, worth to mention Lesha completed architectural university and Le Corbusier's Modulor is his midnight fellow. The interior was made up from 477 module pieces cut from a plywood, smart and light-weight choice for exhibitions. The results are posted below, don't forget to watch a video. http://www.behance.net/gallery/PYE-Store/12374703
http://vimeo.com/79806945
Helvetica The Perfume™ is the first limited edition product from Guts & Glory, a creative collective based in Oakland, California. Yes, this is actually real, it is not a concept piece. It is an expertly produced object available for purchase and perfect for gifting. For the price of $62 you get a 2 oz of distilled water and 24k gold printing on bottle in, of course, Helvetica. Perfect gift for your friend "Designer" (at least if you cannot spend 800$ for a full original Helvetica typeface)
