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- A Coconut Home for the iPad
- Reused to be Relit
- A HOT Watch
- The 2011 iF concept design Showcase on Yanko Design – Part IV
- True Hospital Comfort Zone
- Using Even Shadow to Sit
- Auto Freedom for Brazil and Beyond
| Posted: 27 Jan 2011 07:41 AM PST  The coconut tree perhaps is the most giving tree in all of nature. What I mean is that every part of the tree is used in some industry or another. So it makes complete logical sense for young designers with an eco initiative to come up with an iPad cover made from materials sourced from the coconut tree! This is the story of Econut, a cover that blends back into nature after serving its purpose to the iPad. Designers: Cho Youg-jo & Jeoung Jun-tae
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| Posted: 27 Jan 2011 07:39 AM PST  The most effective way to dispose waste is not to recycle but reuse it. The MOLLIGHT uses components from the most unlikely of places. The spring is from an old armchair and the transformer is just a cable from an old lamp. Thomas Edison said it best, “to invent, you need a vivid imagination and a pile of junk.” Designer: Alessandro Marelli
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| Posted: 27 Jan 2011 07:35 AM PST  This watch concept is named simply and appropriately FIRE. The hour and minute hands are lit by LEDs that simulate torch powered cigarette lighters. It’s anything but traditional but doesn’t offer anything new functionally. Still, it’s a HOT watch. BTW this is a good year to quite smoking. Just saying. Designer: Andy Kurovets
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| The 2011 iF concept design Showcase on Yanko Design – Part IV Posted: 27 Jan 2011 03:59 AM PST  Today’s lineup of 2011 iF concept design Showcase is interestingly different. Why? Because it contains many projects dedicated to Communication and Multimedia Design. This includes a broad spectrum of books, magazines and posters. One particular poster that tugs my heartstrings is the one dedicated to Domestic Violence. It communicates the irony of fate with such raw emotions and is overwhelming. Anyway, besides the C & M segment, the usual jamboree of product design is included to lighten up the mood. Enjoy! Please note this is just a shortlist, winners will be announced at a later date.                                                             ---------- |
| Posted: 27 Jan 2011 12:03 AM PST  If you’ve been unfortunate to have been in any hospital in our modern world for a long stay, you know it can be an awful experience. Not just because of quality of service, but because of environment, because a hospital is a sterile place where the only fun you should be having is on your way out the door. Designer Sara Tejareh aims to change all that with the power of the soul. Soul power goes a long way, but this is an industrial design blog, and we want something physical! Therefor I must say that a whole large relaxation area such as the one Sara Tejareh is presenting here would end up being an absolutely invaluable addition to any hospital in the world – as Tejareh says, the power of soul can cheer up your heart even when the rest of your body is failing you – and being in a relaxing arena of pillows and bright colors will do nothing but help in making that power a reality. Mind healing to the rescue. Designer: Sara Tejareh
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| Posted: 27 Jan 2011 12:03 AM PST  As you reading about this project are more than likely human, you know how important it can be to have a nice seat to sit upon. It is because of this, and because a chair can be so simple that it’s one of the central bits of industrial design in any designer’s schooling. It is the primary challenge of any Bauhaus student in Germany to create a perfect or otherwise innovative chair. The project we’re about to look at here is not from the Bauhaus, no, in fact it’s just about as far away in form from a Bauhaus chair as a designer has ever gotten. This is “Purposefulness of Shadow,” a seat that employs not only it’s own basic form, but the form of the shadow it has the potential to cast as well. It is in this space between the chair and its shadow that the seated person can place all of their otherwise carried items. Optical illusion made useful. Well played. Designer: John Leung
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| Auto Freedom for Brazil and Beyond Posted: 27 Jan 2011 12:03 AM PST  By now, since I and we have mentioned it so often due to its massive spread of influence over the world of industrial design, we must assume you’ve seen the movie Minority Report. This film is a futuristic vision of the world in which one of the greatest innovations is the integrated highway system, one where no longer are there roads on which you can crash your car, but essentially rails on which you plug your destination in and you’re carried along your way. What the designers in this project have done is to make that auto system a reality – sort of. The “OU” project, this set of cars and the highways they drive on, is a manifestation of ou, aka “or” in Portuguese. This project comes from the designer’s desire to deal with a common Brazilian desire to be flexible and get to and from locations at the times they wish rather than riding on public transport and fitting themselves to that timeline and set of guidelines. This project wants to provide that individual transport, the kind that allows for movement at any time for any person, to also work on conserving space, energy consumption, and to reduce pollution (compared to a gas guzzling car for each person.) This track and car system is a design inspired by the movement of shoal-fish. Colorful, unified, and wonderful. 2:1 – Industrial Design team: Designer: 2:1 Industrial Design Team
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