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• No Shelf For My Shampoo!
• Simple Art Of Crushing Herbs
• Welcome Home, Telephone
• Tandem for Speedsters
• Sitting on Fire

No Shelf For My Shampoo! Posted: 13 May 2010 01:30 AM PDT Less Soft may not be the apt name for a liquid soap /shampoo packaging, but the purpose behind the re-design is apt! The idea is to use a packaging that is eco-friendly and can adopt variations in skin, so that it becomes easy to distinguish between soap and shampoo when we are all lathered up! The material used to make the bottle is "self-resolved corn starch vinyl", and has suction cups to stick the bottle to the wall. I dig the fish-shape the bottle takes,which is prominent when hung. Designer: Jung Hyun Jee

Simple Art Of Crushing Herbs Posted: 13 May 2010 01:00 AM PDT One of the secrets in cooking that I picked up from my grandmother was to freshly grind all the herbs and masalas in a mortar and pestle. She did not believe in electric blenders or processors and relied totally on her muscle-power. Although time-consuming, grandma said that hand crushing the spices made them release their true flavors! So going back to the basics with Orb, this 3-piece set has the versatility of crushing and grinding larger quantities or even several ingredients at once. Naturally the big bowl is for larger quantities, but you can upturn the lid and use it for a smaller portion. Orb is made from non-absorbent vitrified porcelain and is dishwasher safe. Designer: Morph for Joseph Joseph

Welcome Home, Telephone Posted: 13 May 2010 12:16 AM PDT I would like to take this opportunity to formally welcome the telephone back into the home. Not to the car, not to the park, not to the line at Subway (I HATE THOSE PEOPLE,) but to the comfort of your own home. Designer Bon-Seop, Ku has a design called the “WIPI Phone” that’s too large for a pocket and too cute to be ignored! Made for your countertop, your kitchen table, your bedroom shelf, this is the long missing medium-format communication device that’s the missing link between cell and laptop. I’m not suggesting this is the middle, right between phone and laptop, the perfect mix of both. No way! Instead I am TELLING YOU THAT. I mean, look at this sassy little Samsung number! It’s all conceptual and not officially affiliated with Samsung in any way, but as we know from countless projects of the past, branding an object gives it a real sense of “could it be?” in our minds. Like the license plate on a car. Makes it more real. Take a peek here: on the back you’ve got your ethernet jack, usb jack, power jack. On the top you’ve got a handle. On the front you’ve got your number pad. Video screen, video camera, time display, touch screen(s). And all this on a nice base. Does this remind anyone else of a mix between a television and a microwave? Designer: Bon-Seop, Ku

Tandem for Speedsters Posted: 13 May 2010 12:10 AM PDT You’ve got a tandem bike. Chances are, you’re either in a comedy movie or you’re biking with the Muppets. Either way, you’re not cruising very fast. And your bike? It’s probably pretty far up on the cutie-pie scale. What if you’re in the mood for modernism? What if you’d like to go FAST? Well then just look right here, no further must you go! Here it is, the “Tandem Speed” bike by Robert Zuchoski. Get your speed lines on. Designer Robert Zuchowski of San Jose, CA is a man who likes his white, black, and red paint. Me too. You really don’t need anything else when it comes to pop anything. Making anything pop!, I should say. This bike is not yet on the production line, but with the response I’m SURE it will get, it wont be far off. High five double bike! Designer: Robert Zuchowski

Sitting on Fire Posted: 13 May 2010 12:03 AM PDT Fire hydrants. They’re red. They give firefighters access to water to put out fires. Dogs pee on them. They work pretty good for what they’re meant to do. But what about the offseason? What happens to lawn chairs in the winter? They get put in the shed. What about fire hydrants when there’s no fire? I know, let’s sit on it. Let’s sit on the fire hydrant. But wait! It isn’t comfortable at all! What can be done? By jove I know what we can do, make it more sit-friendly! Designer Xiaoman Wang observed in his area of residence the strange phenomenon of people sitting on fire hydrants as seats. Everywhere XW looked, there was someone resting their feet with a nice butt-to-hydrant sit. But the discomfort! So a new world solution was needed. And here it is. Designer: Xiaoman Wang

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