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• Color Rubik Cube For The Blind
• Dare They Sell You Stale Veggies Now!
• Dumpling Inspired Backpack
• KIT, BFF, LUV U
• How Tall Today, Young One?
• LED Pegs Not Just for Laundry
• Logs Are for Lovers

Color Rubik Cube For The Blind Posted: 17 Mar 2010 02:42 AM PDT The last Rubik Cube that we saw on Yanko Design had textures as tease for the visually challenged; this current iteration uses only Braille. Colors embossed include green, blue, red, yellow, white & pink. One of the more sensible concepts in a long time that hopefully will delight the sighted folks too! Maybe we'll learn Braille in this process! Designer: Konstantin Datz

Dare They Sell You Stale Veggies Now! Posted: 17 Mar 2010 02:17 AM PDT In supermarkets where loads of veggies is stacked and dumped, freshness may not be a priority. Keeping a track of all that's been brought in can be time consuming and not all buyers may have a knack for freshness count. The Fresh Code offers a simple solution to this problem; it's an intelligent barcode with a graph that indicates the freshness level. As time passes by, the graph on the barcode keeps receding, till it finally reaches "0"; indicating that the veggie needs to be dumped and not sold. Designers: Sisi Yuan, Yiwu Qiu, Lei Zhao, Qiulei Huang, Lijun Zhang & Weihang Shu

Dumpling Inspired Backpack Posted: 17 Mar 2010 01:39 AM PDT Here’s a slightly different take on the backpack. The Dumpling, inspired by the delicious pouch foods, is a backpack that treats your belongings as color coded and compartmentalized items. The backpack is actually made up of a series of roll-up bags. Take only what you need and roll them up into the main support guard which is quite simple in design – a couple straps and a big hook. It looks crafty but something about it is very attractive. Designer: Shin Ji-Young

KIT, BFF, LUV U Posted: 17 Mar 2010 01:34 AM PDT If you were to study human interaction, you’d find there is a tight knit group of people who you are closest with. This is also known as the human web and connections outside the web can extend infinitely. That’s called 6 degrees of separation. If you were to visualize all of that into a tangible object, you’d probably end up with something similar to the Drops concept. Drops is a unique prototype that physically represents the interactive possibilities between your closest kin. Confused? Everyone in your circle of friends gets a unique personalized wood token and a docking station. Simple interactions like docking your token lets everyone else know you’re there. Stroking them sends out a subtle glow – a playful reminder. It’s meant to be an esoteric gesture, but an important one which is why it’s made of wood to symbolize strength and the organic nature of friendship. More pictures of the process: Here & Here. Designers: David Sjunnesson & Pedro Nakazato Andrade Drops from Pedro Andrade on Vimeo.

How Tall Today, Young One? Posted: 17 Mar 2010 12:30 AM PDT One of the cutest and most universal signs of growing up, marked by the parents of the child, is the pencil mark above the head on the wall. Pencil mark on the wall to show how tall. Young ones growing up, head height by head height. The only thing is, the place where this is generally marked is on a wall in a house that might not even be in the possession of the person once they’re grown up. So how does one keep this treasure? Let me lead you to it. Mark it here. This right here is the “MeasureMe Stick” by our pals at Studio 1a.m., made of bamboo and printed ink. Dimensions are 84″h x 4.7″w x .5″d. Weighs is 5 pounds. Hand made in Chicago, Illinois, stainless steel mounting pegs included. Pretty! Feel free to hang em all up, even if you’ve got only a bunny and a kitty and no kiddies like me. Batteries not included. Designer: Studio 1a.m. [ Buy it Here, MeasureMe Stick is available for $120 @ YD Store ] MeasureMe Stick is available for $120 @ YD Store

LED Pegs Not Just for Laundry Posted: 17 Mar 2010 12:10 AM PDT So you’ve got some laundry to be hanging out in the dark, right? And you don’t want the boogie-man to get that laundry out there, right?! You need these rechargable light-up pegs to keep them safe! OR you could use them for about a million other projects or situations I bet. You’re a “gotta use it” sort of person, right? I bet. These is the “light PEG” project, and it’s going to hook you basically instantly. You have a tree charger that’s plugged into the wall, you’ve got 8 individual chargeable pegs, each one of those pegs with 6 LED bulbs in them. Each of the pegs turns off and on with a simple click, and they work in wet, and cold as well as room temp because they’re waterproof, and they hold 4-5 hours of power after just a 30-40 minute charge. Lamp is made from spatial electrically conductive material and pegs are made from recyclable plastic with LED bulbs. Must. To. Me. Give. Designer: Natalia Romanova

Logs Are for Lovers Posted: 17 Mar 2010 12:02 AM PDT Here! What have we got here! Why, it’s logs! Lovely, lovely logs, used rightfully simply as furniture for the home. In a brand new way, I must say. Keeping them basically rough in nature, adding just plug-ins of interior comfort for the cuteness. And they are so very cute when you’ve got them all set up nice! The key to this project is designer Ilan Dei Studio’s keywords – Urban Renewal. Wild. Generally I tie the term Urban Renewal to street art, graffiti, mostly because one of my favorite graffiti dudes Shepard Fairey uses the term so freely. But here, in the way Ilan Dei Studio uses it, it totally fits, in a not all that different way. The story goes that the crew of Ilan Dei was basically cruzin’ around Venice California, seeing for themselves a large amount of cut down trees, lovely logs for the taking, just sitting there getting all rained out or corroded. So they said hey! Let’s have some excellent brainstorming sessions on how to utilize this gift from nature, so terribly wasted here. And so they did. This first set of “Urban Logs” is being utilized in A. Kinney Court, one of Ilan Dei Studios recent interior design projects. Designer: Ilan Dei Studio

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