Hand-Carved Wood Glasses – Urban Spectacles (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Made from such hardwoods as cocobolo, bloodwood, and purpleheart, the glasses from Urban Spectacles are made-to-order, being custom-designed and hand-carved. These pieces of art are real eyeware that …

Offbeat Business Cards – Inspiring Self Promotion Ideas (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) As they say, first impressions count, so when you hand someone your business card, a well designed one is a must. However, a cleverly designed business card, not necessarily a shockingly different one…

Auto Part Integration Ads – Clever Bus Billboards (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Giant, slow-moving, buses in crowded urban areas make great, high-visibility ad-spaces. The creators of the following ads obviously understands this. The large, bright decals along with the moving exh…

Tree Branch Tables – Nosigner’s Arborism

(TrendHunter.com) This table called the “Arborism” has natural looking legs in the shape of bare trees in winter. The ‘tree form arms’ were configured using a fractal algorithm called ‘Tree Curve,’ so the design concei…

Hydrogen Powered Exotic Cars – The Scorpion by Ronn Motor (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The Ronn Motor Company is on the leading edge of fuel efficiency and exotic performance automotive design. The ‘Scorpion’ is the Texas based company’s first design and they hope to have the beau…

Recycled Mattress Chairs – Madam Rubens Stool (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Frank Willems is a Dutch designer who found a way to recycle old mattresses. The reason they weren’t recyclable was because they got stuck in the shredders. Getting creative, Willems folded them up in…

Guerrilla Gardening – ‘Bloom’ Seed Spreading by Bicycle (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The ‘Bloom’ bicycle device, an entry in the Design21: Power to the Pedal competition, did not win the contest but the judges wanted to give a ‘shout-out’ to the designers anyway, and I can see…

Botanical Shoes – Shoe Fleur, A Footwear Fantasy (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) I couldn’t believe what I was seeing when I saw Michel Tcherevkoff’s photographs of shoes and purses fashioned from plants and flowers.

“It all started with the underside of a banana leaf,” Luxu…

Stylish Fire Protection – The Safety Box (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Fire extinguishers are a necessary item for every home, but a fire safety kit doesn’t have to be hideous. The Safety Box preparedness can integrate beautiful design. Why have something hideous and red…

Steampunked USBs – From Russia Handmade with Love (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) This intricate steampunked USB flash drive could quite easily be a fine piece of jewellery. Handcrafted from brass and copper in Russia, few details are available in English, but the designer has post…

Mega Flares – Prada’s Checkered Atrocity (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Several designers began rolling flared pants onto shelves, announcing the skinny-jean look of the last few seasons may finally be over. Prada, known for their oft eccentric extremes, really stretched …

Push Up Tables – Spider Table (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) I love this table design that forces you to exercise and burn a few calories each time you want to use it, presumably to eat and take in more calories.

The Push Up Table by Chris Murphy is inspired b…

Whale-Shaped Vases – The Untitled Flower Jar (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Alessandro Bêda, an industrial designer from Portugal, has created this cool, two-piece flower vase in the shape of a whale. The flowers, placed in the whale’s ‘blow hole’, are like a colourfu…

His & Hers Boxed Offices – The Out-of-Box Workstation (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Justin Timberlake’s SNL “My D*** in a Box” skit started an increasing fascination of things in boxes. We’ve see a room in a box, assorted furniture in a box designs, a kitchen in a box, and now we hav…

DIY Persian Rugs – The Recyclable Puzzleperser

(TrendHunter.com) This DIY project is for the die-hard puzzle lover. It is a modular rug which you can piece together to form your very own Persian rug. The product designer is Katrin Sonneleitner of Germany who came u…

Top 32 Dazzling Chandeliers (SUPER GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) For centuries, chandeliers have been used to add a touch of elegance to interior design. Since the days of the original cascading candle-holders, chandeliers have gone through major evolution, as high…

Sin-Inspired Wine Goblets – 7 Deadly Glasses (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Each of the seven deadly sins has been embodied in Kacper Hamilton’s collection of wine glasses, 7 Deadly Glasses which include lust (front image), gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy and pride.

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11 Creative Garbage Cans (SUPER GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Even if we try to recycle more and reduce our waste, there’s no way we can eliminate production of garbage altogether. For that reason, there were always be a market for waste bins, but why settle for…

Custom Wallpaper – Wall Coverings You Colour (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) It’s finally time to let your creativity out on the walls like you always wanted to as a child! This writable wall paper has speech bubbles that let you write, philosophize or graffiti your own walls,…

Human Face Bags – Headstrong Hand Bags by Yael Mer

(TrendHunter.com) These bags, embossed with images of human faces, are more than a little creepy, yet somehow they ooze appeal. The quirky totes were created by Yael Mer who makes the mask-like bags in different shapes…