Technical Textile Pillows – LED City Cushions (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Florence Bost is the designer and creator of the City pillows. These are technical textile cushions which contain a LED (light emitting diodes) wire connected to a battery box. There is also music and changing colors incorporated in the pretty design of these tech cushions and as decoration, they ar…

Funky Bathtubs – 5 Stylish Soakers (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Designers are paying more attention to bathroom design, and bathtubs are the focal pieces of these rooms.

Here are five beautiful and eye-catching bathtub designs. The tubs include everything from circular to square shaped, from see-through glass to classic white with built-in shelves for towels. F…

Biker Computers – LED Motorcycle PC

(TrendHunter.com) This is a LED motorcycle computer case mod. The liquid-cooled casemod modeled after a bike PC is not a real nbcycle as far as functionality is concerned as it was designed to remain stationary and look pretty. As a computer case, it is very unique, but I’m pretty sure that there are many people out …

Postcard Cameras – Snap + Send Postcard

(TrendHunter.com) Created by Stuart Calvey, the “Snap + Send Postcard” allows you to snap pictures and then mail the camera – which resembles, and is almost as thin as, a postcard – directly to the whoever you like. This is a great concept even though I don’t think you should expect great quality out of this gadget..…

Folding Booty Scooters – XO Move (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The XO Move concept scooter looks cool and acts cool. When you’re ready to park and disembark, the back folds forward to secure it from being wheeled away. It should easily be able to carry two people and has a wheelbase that can be adjusted to make it more stable at high speed.

It was a group pro…

Intentional Watermarks – Sukurasaku Glasses Leave Flower Prints

(TrendHunter.com) Now here’s a glass with some sophisticated simplicity! The Sakurasaku glasses look ordinary at first glance, but the bases are actually shaped like a flower, causing them to leave cute cherry blossom patterns on the table.

They were created by Japanese designer, Hironao Tsuboi for 100perstore.com. …

Fashion Pop – Coca-Cola Fashion Week Collector’s Bottles

(TrendHunter.com) Who says Art and packaging design are hard to combine?
Each year during the Fashion Week in São Paulo, Coca-Cola Brazil launches its limited-edition Coca-Cola Light bottle decorated with a full-body shrink film from Sleever Intl.

The 237-mL glass bottle exclusively distributed during the Fashion…

Mood Sensitive Design – The Mood Bowl Changes Color (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) This pear glass, which plugs into the wall, changes color according to your mood. The mood bowl is capable of going through a cycle of 8 different colors but it can also remain on the same color of your choosing. This is a simple ornament designed to give the room ambiance and a relaxing mood.

Design Cans 2 – Pepsi Artco Cans

(TrendHunter.com) Last year, we saw Diet Coke launch limited edition “design” cans featuring art from top Irish artists. It was a great idea, and now Pepsi’s on board with a similar promotion.

Cary Lietzes of ARTCO is trying to find the right blend of art in packaging design. Her new project for Pepsi includes artw…

Bottled Ice Cream Floats – Schweppes Root Beer Float

(TrendHunter.com) For years, beverage makers have tried to crack the code to develop an indulgent drink that tastes like a homemade rootbeer float. Cadburry Schweppes, with its brands A&W;and Sunkist, is introducing a drink which is supposed to match the flavours of home-made floats.

According to the company, “They…

Color Coded Chopping Boards – For OCD Chefs (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) This is a very smart concept for cutting boards. The plastic base resembles a folder file that contains four cutting boards of different colors each one representing a specific food group. The green board is to be used for vegetables, the blue one for fish, the red for meat and the white for cooked …

Eco-Friendly Charging Umbrellas – Parasolar (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Parasolar is the perfect name: it’s a parasol, meant to be used during sunny days, and it captures solar energy to recharge your gadgetry. Oded Shoreer made this for the Greener Gadgets Competition

The cloth has panels of photovoltaic cells that transfer power to a charger in the handle with a coup…

Designer Homes – Frank’s New Gehry Residence (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Frank Gehry is an absolute genius when it comes to designing cutting edge architecture. Gehry has so been a huge influence on a lot of modern architectural masterpieces. Innovative is the word that comes to mind when I try to describe his use of fluid shapes and original materials in the structures …

Embossed Bodies – Ninette van Kamp Lingerie (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) First we saw bed sheets that embossed messages on your body as you sleep, and now there is this body-embossing lingerie.

“Ninette van Kamp is an interdisciplinary and interactive designer from the Netherlands currently exploring the conflicting relationship between pain and beauty through the medi…

City Facelift Competitions – Liverpool Observatory Design Winner (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The competition to make Liverpool a location known as something other than the birthplace of the Beatles is over, and Duggan Morris Architects won.

92 entries from around the world covet this opportunity. The Duggan Morris observatory consists of two distinct buildings: a visitor’s center and an o…

Deceptive Furniture – DRIFT Ghost Chair (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The Ghost Chair is an ethereal, other worldly looking chair not because of it’s shape, but because it seems to have two shapes. DRIFT, an ultra cool design studio, is making a series of chairs using the three dimensions captured within the design of the chair. It provides for the existence of a cha…

Baby Rice Bags – Personalized Yosimiya Sacks (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The Japanese love narcissistic products just as much as we do in the west, but they put their own unique spin on it… like Yosimiya’s custom rice bags for babies! Hey, it’s never too soon to start!

Instead of a standard bag of rice, with maybe some text or basic logo on it, people can now get thei…

Life-Sized Cars on Walls 2 – Gigantic BMW Ad (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) This is one of the biggest ads in Russia. Located right in the center of Moscow, this ad features full-sized BMWs like the Z4 M Coupe, M3, M5 and the M6 cars with headlights that turn on in the evening stuck on the wall. The cars are full-sized but they are not real and the ad measures more than one…

Advertising on Toilet Paper – JustToiletPaper isn’t Just Toilet Paper (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) We’ve seen 10 amazing toilet paper designs which prove toilet paper is for more than just wiping. Justtoiletpaper.com realized the same thing. The company launched a line of printed toilet paper, perfect for advertising or delivering a personal message!

“On the average, people go to the bathroom 6…

Recycled Home Designs – Bottle Lamps II (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) These are lamps made out of different kinds of recycled bottles and chains. There are soda bottles, milk bottles and plastic bottles. Some of these designs are simple enough and are DIY (Do It Yourself) such as the collection of the 5 clear soda bottles which is the next to last photo. This arrange…