Archive for the ‘Weird & Wonderful’ Category
Bachelor Padding: Convertible pool tables
Life is all about compromises. Especially if you live with someone. And sometimes there’s just not enough space for those items deemed ‘unessential’. So, more often than not, the larger relics of one’s youth are replaced with more sensible options. Well, things are changing. The space-saving pioneers at Chevillotte believe that keg parties and dinner [...]
In: Bachelor Padding, Weird & Wonderful · Tagged with: bachelor pad, billiards, chevillotte, Convertible pool tables, furniture, pool, sapce saving, snooker
Weird & Wonderful: Top 10 bookcase designs
Having designed my fair share of books, it goes without saying that I appreciate a good bookcase or two. Why spend all that time designing the books, if you can’t show them off a little? Although, when does showing off go a little too far? I’ll let you be the judge. “Oh, the farmer and [...]
In: Weird & Wonderful · Tagged with: america bookshelf, BCXSY, bookdesign, bookselves, bookshelf, circular bookshelf, criss cross bookshelf, David Garcia Studio, interior design, Kostas Syrtariotis, Michaël Bihain, Mirko Ginepro, Ron Arad, Sakura Adachi, stairs bookshelf, the infinity bookcase, The reading cave, Top 10 bookcases, tree bookshelf
Weird & Wonderful: The web made real
Apparently, the average adult is” awake for 15 hours and 45 minutes every day and 45 per cent of that time is spent using a proliferation of technology”. Well, that’s what the Mail Online states. And who I am to argue, as cyberworld design starts infiltrating the real world. Not quite the ‘Rise of the [...]
In: Weird & Wonderful · Tagged with: brigadacreativapixel trash can, cyberworld, daily mail, desktop folders, facebook, google maps pin, haseform, like button, real life icons, rise of the machines.t2, terminator2, the web made real, urban cursor project
Weird & Wonderful: Furniture design
In a world of homogenous flat pack furniture, it worth paying tribute to designers who think outside the (IKEA) box. ‘Skull Chair’ by Pool Bloody Table, by John Nouanesing Concrete Sofa by Stefan Zwicky. The Montanara sofa by Gaetana Pesce. Primo Quatro book shelves by Saba. Push and store cabinet designed by Chung-Tang Ho/ Tong. [...]
In: Weird & Wonderful · Tagged with: Bloody Table, breezeblock chair, chung-tang ho/tong, dripping table, furniture, furniture design, gaetana pesce, IKEA, John Nouanesing, montanara sofa, pool, primo quatro, push and store cabinet, ruler lightshade, saba, skull chair, squint bookshelf, stefan zwicky, waterfall sofa
Fruit wrapping paper
Remember ‘scratch ‘n sniff’ stickers? Well now there’s fruit-based wrapping paper printed with scented ink, courtesy of Happy F&B – a brand and design agency from Sweden. Each year, around Christmas, Happy creates a collection of wrapping paper as a gift to their clients and friends. Better than the usual fruit basket I’d say. Via [...]
In: Weird & Wonderful · Tagged with: branding, christmas.melons.bananas, client gift, design, fruit wrapping paper, oranges, scented ink, scratch and sniff, sweden, wrapping paper
Weird & Wonderful: Lego Wii controller
Ever found yourself moaning about the youth of today and their addictions to tech toys? “What’s wrong with Lego?” you’d say. Well, it seems your protestations have not fallen upon deaf ears. In a collision of old meets new, Lego and Power A, have developed a controller for the Nintendo Wii. Why? Well… why the [...]
In: Weird & Wonderful · Tagged with: controller, gift, lego, nintendo wii, retro, toysrus, wii
Weird & Wonderful: A shop for monsters
With the global phenomena of Harry Potter and the Twilight series, it is no surprise that interest in monsters, vampires and general mythical creatures is at an all-time high. So what better way to encourage kids into creative writing than to set up mythical stores such as the recently opened Hoxton Street Monster Supplies shop [...]
In: Weird & Wonderful · Tagged with: 826, brooklyn, harry potter, hidden door, hoxton street monster supplies, literary program, london, pirates, sanfrancisco, superheroes, twlight, we made this
Weird & Wonderful: Ninja-bread men
Sometimes the best play on words isn’t to be found in the Advertising world. Sometimes you have to delve into the world of novelty baking. Presenting the rather kick-ass ‘ninjabread men’, avaiable for sale at Perpetual Kid. Ninja sound effects are at the user’s discretion. Via Likecool
In: Weird & Wonderful · Tagged with: advertising, bakery, gingerbread men, ninjabread mne, play on words
Weird & Wonderful: iPhone app fridge magnets
We’ve all met an iPhone bore – asking whoever they meet what new apps they’ve got, and then (unimpressed) smugly handing over their shiny little device for a peak at the latest ‘awesome’ app that you that will change your life forever. Well, here’s a few apps I’m sure they won’t have seen. From Jailbreak [...]
In: Weird & Wonderful · Tagged with: app, apple, fridge magnets, iphone, iphone apps, magnets
Weird & Wonderful: Lego Star Wars Foosball Table
One of the many wonders of this Internet age in which we live, is the staggering availability of Lego-inspired creativity. Decades on, and the Lego mantra still holds true – you are only limited by your imagination. Case in point being this Lego Star Wars Foosball table created by an Austrian Lego fanatic. Using only [...]
In: Weird & Wonderful · Tagged with: Austria, creativity, foosball, lego, Lego Star Wars, weird & wonderful
