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• UPS, Fold It, Tape It, Ship It
• USB Roll-on
• Nice See Cups! (Fashionably Loud Headphones)
• Hangers On You Actually Want
• Sitting Pretty in Nagoya City
• Sew Color What
• The Future Fire

UPS, Fold It, Tape It, Ship It Posted: 20 Apr 2010 05:59 AM PDT It seems a box is always too big or small so designer Patrick Sung came up with flat sheets of recyclable corrugated cardboard called the Universal Packaging System or UPS (unrelated tho the logo is eerily similar). The patterns make it easy to fold and conform to almost any shape while maintaining structural rigidity and protecting the contents. Love the idea of saving on packaging but will this actually work? I suspect each sheet would have to be sufficiently padded; not too thick, not too thin, but just right said Goldilocks. Designer: Patrick Sung

USB Roll-on Posted: 20 Apr 2010 05:45 AM PDT Check out this USB flash drive designed for Adidas to give to their clients and friends. Color me jealous because I want one! It looks like a miniature roll-on suitcase with the eponymous three stripes. I’m not one for novel flash drives but I know there are collectors out there so do me a favor. If you somehow come across these flash drives, go ahead and grab an extra one for me will ya? Thanks, Love you. Designer: Arthur Xin

Nice See Cups! (Fashionably Loud Headphones) Posted: 20 Apr 2010 04:33 AM PDT Great Accessories in Music History: Mozart’s powdered wigs, Elton John’s sunglasses, The Ramones’ black leather jackets, Tommy Lee’s “third” drum stick, Kevin Federline. Now designers Min-guk Ji & Hong-joo Kim & In-oh Yoo & for Metatrend Institute have invented what could be the greatest music accessory since the groupie. The “Transparent OLED Headphones” (working title I’m assuming) are made from flexible OLED panels that allow the user to custom design a lighting show or patterns across your cranium. These custom designs can also be set to your current track or “color groove setting”, scroll any message texts or simply remain whatever color you’re feeling like that day. The left side button controls your sound functions while the right side button controls the light show. I think these headphones are so revolutionary they just may need a new segment name. How about HEADTRIPS? or EARGASMS? or maybe HEADBANDS? Designers: Min-guk Ji, Hong-joo Kim & In-oh Yoo for Metatrend Institute

Hangers On You Actually Want Posted: 20 Apr 2010 01:50 AM PDT Don’t look now but you are about to be invaded by tiny white ninjas. No wait, it’s just a bunch of stick figure pirates taking over your hallway..whew! Whatever they’re mission is, they need to first hold up my damn rain coat! Designer Massimo Battaglia has created this little army of ambiguous acrobats to service all your hanging needs. Calling his design “MagicBeans”, an homage to the Jack and the Beanstalk story, this clever design will be featured at this years Milan Design Week and will no doubt go into production shortly there after. Designer: Massimo Battaglia Jack is represented by the white puppets and the bean plant is the green rope. Thanks to the friction, generated by the rope passing through a quadruple curve in the puppet, the hanging parts don't move when something is attached to them. The height of the hanging points can be easily changed if the user slide the puppet on the rope gently.

Sitting Pretty in Nagoya City Posted: 20 Apr 2010 12:55 AM PDT That’s right! Nagoya! Do you know where that is? The exact location of this project is 3-38-10 Osu Naka-Ku Nagoya City – Aichi, Japan. The project? A cafe! Yay for coffee and snacks! This place of business, art, and design goes by the name “AG Cafe” and aims to tend to artists and consumers of Osu Shopping Street in the center of Nagoya City. Why are we looking at it? Because it’s super lovely! At the direction/request of the future owner of the cafe, this was designed and built to be organically connected to the environment around it. Embracing not only art reflecting life, but life reflecting art. There is a warmth here, the loving embrace of the environment that in turn embraces it. The abstraction of a birds nests adds to the home-like feeling you’re meant to feel while chilling here. Lots of windows, lots of transparency, lots of inspiration for people to come in, people to enjoy, and people to take their energy and fly away, shooting out feathers of fabulous artwork all over the city! Hooray! I can totally see myself chilling here, all writing Yanko and such. Pretty! Designer: Kidosaki Architects Studio Architects: Kidosaki Architects Studio- Hirotaka Kidosaki, principal-in-charge; Satoshi Itasaka, project team. General contractor: ZEROWORKS-Rei Takeyama, Masahiro Mori

Sew Color What Posted: 20 Apr 2010 12:25 AM PDT Sew all your colors, matched! The genius, as in most my favorite things, is in the simplicity of it all. This sewing machine right here is made for everyone, but fits right in with those who wish to enter the craft of attaching clothing to itself with thread. New sewers! This is for you. But for you perfectionists, you might want your paws to seek. Electromagnetic need drive. Filigree upper arm design. Openness. The workspace is wide open. Backlit work area, with the stitch pattern projected on to the fabric it’s about to be sewn onto. PLUS! And a BET you wonder what the ink is for. What’s that ink for? That’s crazy bringing ink that close to a bunch of fabric! No way man, just be careful. But wait what’s it for? It’s for the thread. It’s a yarn printer. You match up the color you need at the top, and this baby prints the ink as you go. And with a pneumatic JetAir-system handling your threading, you’ll be jamming out the thread quick and nice as a whip. This project is called “Leitfaden” and I want one. BONUS: There’s a simple slick table that matches up with the machine too! DOUBLE BONUS: Can you guess how the Lietfaden aims to be environmentally supportive? Check it out: you know those amazing yet impossible-to-match old fabrics you see in used clothing at the second hand store? Instead of buying new fabric, tear those old rags apart and match em up here! All you need is a swatch, which can be a tiny rip of the clothing you’re about to sew, and bang! You’ve got that thread at your fingertips. Designer: Monika Jakubek and Anna Müller

The Future Fire Posted: 20 Apr 2010 12:02 AM PDT Imagine the letter lowercase o with a flame in it. Add a little bit of the ol’ zazz and a fabulous designer Acacio Viegas, some real rules of the physical world and a square behind it. What have you, we, us, got? We’ve got the “EVO2″, an ethanol fireplace that’s based on denatured ethanol, creating a lovely fire with no smell and no smoke. That’s what’s up. This denatured ethanol is a solvent composed of ethyl alcohol. That’s not the kind you aughta be downing on Saturday night. It’s a Sunday night sorta deal. Imagine all the fabulousness of real flame with non of the stank and none of the smoke! I don’t think I’ve heard of the smell of fire being that big of a problem for the people I know that have a real fireplace, but the smoke thing is a real design jammer. The ability to have a fireplace without the extremely stuck chimney, well, that’s a freedom. Designer: Acacio Viegas

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