Switch It Up

Surface Switch Book from Takashi Kondo on Vimeo.
Making switches with conductive ink and paper! A possible fire hazard but so fun, flame/heat-resistant fabrics could be used for practical purposes.

Stak and Slide

'Stak' by designer Patrick Fey is a storage concept developed for Richard Lampert to be used in a variety of ways and places.

The components can be moved around to form cabinets that roll around on a trolley or even just something to hold up your tv. The sliding joints allow for countless combinations.

Creative Packaging Ideas

Thes products are sure to catch your eye.

hair wax containers by yoshihiro shinde



canned jeans by levi in color coordinating pain buckets






cigarette books by Tank featuring many old classics

stock bags by makoto hashikura

 toothpaste tube by masayuki arakawa



fruit juice boxes by naoto fukasawa



cheese sponge by Atypk!


novelty packaging by rovina cai


promotional heat resistant cardboard sleeves that slide onto these winter soup cups by Thirdperson




reusable packaging for turkish delights
the head contains the candies and the construction pieces for the body, it was made to teach children about sustainibility by tamer koseli

Bring Some Colour During Winter Gloom

This heat sensitive wallpaper by Shi Yuan was designed to have flowers bloom when warmed up. Place your hand over a section of the wall and watch flowers bloom under your fingertips. Another product along this line are also the Calender which changes days with the heat from the rising sun and cool night air. Using these same techniques posters etc could also be made.

Minimalist Design

This 'buro' range by Designwright for Lexo feauture your usual office stationary in a way that reduces clutter on yoru desk creating more 'thinking' room. The pieces can be stacked or neatly aligned.

A Tranformer That's Safe To Sit On

'another picnic table' is a design collaboration between wouter nieuwendijk and jair straschnow. A variation of the iconic picnic table it is constructed from pressed bamboo and the seat can be flipped to form different position for a better seating experience.

Japanese Mind Control?

These cat headbands, Neurowear, may not control your mind but they do use biosensors that translate your brainwaves/emotion into movements.

Show Your Voice

on clothes and accesories with these two companies you can take the wavelength of yourself talking and turn it into a intimate, visual object.
David Bizer has desgined the waveform necklace,

which uses lazer cut acrylic pieces to form an approximation of the wavelength of your voice.
Or if you want something even mroe understated Trikoton is a German fashion label that allows you to record your voice online using a flash-based program and uses the images to create a simple knitted wardrobe you can buy.

A Wallpaper That Cleans For You

This wallpaper designed by Chloe Albert detects Volatile Organic Compounds in the air which contribute to air pollution and filters the air of these toxins. As the wallpaper senses rising levels of VOC in the immediate environment it animates decorative disks.

Wearing Your Heart On Your Sleeve

Bloom: A Nurturing Embrace from nueve on Vimeo.
 Bloom is developed by students Alex Akopyan, Andrew Chang, Yeieun Jang, Priscilla Lee and Carol Tu at Simon Fraser University
It is a wearable flower constructed from paper to be worn on yoru shoulder. When hugged or patted gently the flower will bloom but when the motion is abrupt the flower will close.
The flower also has LED 'spores' that illuminate revealing a positive spread of emotional energy.

 

Coca Cola Goes Green

Coca Cola plans toimplement new displays made of 100% recyclable packaging material and also plans to revamp their plastic bottles to be 30% plant material making them 100% recyclable.

an award winning PET bottle developed by Coca Cola

Scratch and Sniff

Flavour Paper, an eco-friendly wallpaper from Jon Sherman's company Flavour League lets you scratch and sniff your funky fruit patterned wallpaper releasing fresh scents.
The fruit cocktail collection offers banana. cherry and tutti frutti flavours.

Fun On Your Fingers

These crayon rings are made from washable crayons.

A Palette in a Pen

A concept pen deisgned by korean design Jinsu Park this pen scans colours in real life much like an eyedropper tool and then custom mixes the colour using a RGB cartridge.

scan a leaf!

colouring!

the concept pen