(TrendHunter.com) Making your house chic and elegant while saving the environment is always good in my book, so I was happy to stumble upon Ryan McElhinney’s site. McElhinney makes artistic yet practical pieces of recycled Toys which are bonded together and then coated in a High Gloss polyurethane lacquer. Each piece…
(TrendHunter.com) The Windy City dyes their river green for St. Patrick’s Day, but that’s not all that goes green. A two mile bridge in the Monroe Harbor will cement Chicago’s position as the Greenest City in the U.S. It will provide space for wind turbines to provide economic value to a recreational source. Chicago …
(TrendHunter.com) This bottle is just as beautiful as it is functional. The space between the walls serves as insulation, keeping the content warm or cool. It’s also microwave safe but not dishwasher safe. That means you have to wash by hand.
(TrendHunter.com) Innovation for children’s health is fantastic, which is why it’s so great to see the Mex’x Wheelchair for Children by Meyra-Ortopedia among six other finalists in the Brit Insurance Designs of the Year.
The wheelchair was designed especially for kids with disabilities, having cool details that wou…
(TrendHunter.com) If you are a chocolate addict, this is the ultimate dessert to crave for. The chocolate pencils come in different cocoa blends with variable intensity and you can create the right chocolate dose for the addict in you. This innovative product is the result of the collaboration between Japanese archit…
(TrendHunter.com) My friend Alex posted these three great examples of egg tuning on his blog.
What was the insight for this project? For Easter in Romania, everybody embellishes boiled Easter eggs. In some regions, the eggs are true pieces of art as they are painted manually in tens of shades and forms (and sometime…
(TrendHunter.com) These beautiful, unique and quirky book covers were designed under creative direction by Paul Buckley, but credit for The Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition has to be given to various designers whose works have been clustered together to create the commemorative art book.
The Penguin Classics Deluxe …
(TrendHunter.com) There is a currently an exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City that is creating buzz around the world. The exhibit, Design and the Elastic Mind, is a combination of art, science, technology and design and includes influential projects from around the world.
We’ve featured a few indiv…
(TrendHunter.com) If you’re going to shell out on a slick new MacBook Air, you’ll want a table that’s just as stunning to show off your the Apple of your eye.
The Milk desk was designed to match Apple’s stylish products with its slick white coating, but it’s been kicked up a notch thanks to an integrated aquarium. …
(TrendHunter.com) For Diesel’s High Speed Fashion online shopping campaign, they’ve launched print ads featuring an attractive young mother powdering her babies bum while running in skinny jeans and stilettos.
The ad reads, “Haiku: You should buy Diesel / You can run in your jeans and / powder baby’s butt”
The pri…
(TrendHunter.com) Simple aesthetics are so often the most beautiful as in the case of the functional Butterfly Light that is so much more pleasing to the eye than those gaudy ceiling lights.
“The concept of the Butterfly Light was ignited from the idea of folding a piece of paper,” according to Trendinsights. “The …
(TrendHunter.com) We’ve seen people faking status, but it looks like the hip thing to do in Nevada is faking authority. If you ever see a cop in a 2007 Mustang Cruiser in Sin City, don’t let him pull you over; chances are, he’s not an officer.
Jessie Vigil from Las Vegas painted his black and white Mustang to look …
(TrendHunter.com) In the future, there will be no more conventional glass ticket box at the theatre. Being heralded as Asia’s most technologically-advanced cinemas, this movie theater looks more like a modern sculpture or a chic boutique hotel.
The movie theatre’s design has been configured for the patrons to be …
(TrendHunter.com) What better way to punch up the colour in your living room than with an item like this ultra hip graffiti seat? Whether you have white walls and clean lines or an eclectic mix of clutter, this sofa would suit many modern living environments.
The urban chic statement piece designed by Ted Nemeth is…
(TrendHunter.com) This trend has got to be the antithesis of a trend I wrote about environmentally-friendly PC’s. Not that this bunch is not ecologically-friendly mind you; I am not even looking into that.
The point is that the focus on these PC’s is style, looks, bling and impossibly pimped out designs. There is not…
(TrendHunter.com) As more people than ever are moving to the cities, they’re having to deal with small space living. If you keep your mind open to creativity, you can come up with some really ingenious uses of space.
French company Decadrages has designed the Bedup to use in small, cramped spaces. Your bed goes up …
(TrendHunter.com) Talk about the ultimate work environment! This work space looks like a playground for grown-ups. The Google offices in Zurich, Switzerland were designed for maximum efficiency and total play space. They’ve got everything from fun brainstorming boards to foosball tables.
No wonder Fast Company chos…
(TrendHunter.com) This is the very retro Sunball lounge chair, circa 1969.
The spherical lounge chair was designed by Ris and Selldorf against the backdrop of a counterculture movement that gave us Woodstock, the Vietnam war and the concomitant massive protests of the anti-war movement, women’s liberation and sex, …
(TrendHunter.com) Cool, functional, out of the box and, of course, environmental-friendly furniture is all we hear around us in terms of interior design. But does anybody think of just plain beautiful, state-of-the-art furniture? What about something specifically for book lovers, like the perfect bookshelves you coul…
(TrendHunter.com) In our material world, surely there are a lot of things you wish you had, but can’t afford, or perhaps don’t have room for in your home. To solve that problem, there’s the *can’t have it? stick it* decals, a collection of stickers for your wall that resemble luxury goods, large pieces of furniture a…
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