(TrendHunter.com) As if divorce wasn’t nasty enough, now feuding couples are taking their dirty laundry on YouTube. This week a little-known actress by the name of Tricia Walsh Smith put up a homemade video on YouTube revealing secrets of her not-so-perfect-marriage to theatre impresario and millionaire Phil Smith. W…
(TrendHunter.com) FireInvent is a company that combines fire safety products and home decor. Their fire safety boxes come in six different versions. Here is the Designer one. It features “unique colors and a design that makes them blend into the home.” Each kit includes a fire extinguisher, a fire blanket, a traditio…
(TrendHunter.com) A major effort is being made by various groups worldwide to replace traditional incandescent lighting with more efficient compact fluorescent lights, or CFLs. However, some serious concerns exist regarding the safety of the extensive use of CFLs in the home as well as with respect to environmentall…
(TrendHunter.com) We’ve seen all sorts of fun recycled designs and DIY projects, but this is the first time we’ve featured a rug made of old belts.
The circular mat is made of dozens of different leather belts, all about the same thickness, in an array of neutral colours. I’m guessing from the dull hues that the Br…
(TrendHunter.com) Clementia Marie Giovanetti is a woman with a difficult task. She’s been trying to sell her mansion for a cool $1.25 million bucks. But in today’s depressed economic times, who has a million and a quarter bucks laying around? So Clementia (a published author) has decided to hold an essay-writing cont…
(TrendHunter.com) Local River is a concept created by French designer Mathieu Lehanneur which encompasses what dezeen.com refers to as a “domestic ‘”refrigerator-aquarium‒ that breeds freshwater fish for eating and grows vegetables at the same time.” They further state that the Local River was, “Inspired by the Lo…
(TrendHunter.com) Cupcakes are so last year; biscuits are the baked good for 2008.
The concept of Biscuiteers is very simple: choose the biscuit collection you want to send, fill in the message details and off they go after being hand-made in the kitchen. Basically, they are party rings with knobs on.
They are real…
(TrendHunter.com) Aunt Bessies, a UK food company, has launched “mash and a banger” in a cone as an all-weather alternative to ice cream.
It may look like a 99 Flake from afar, but it’s just the latest sign of the British adapting eating habits due to increasingly rainy miserable summers. Aunt Bessie’s is breath…
(TrendHunter.com) The Clean Cube washer dryer combo in for reduced spaces. It operates on 110 volt and it features ventless drying and LCD touch screen display. The Clean Cube was designed for students who live on campus within the limited confines of a dorm room.
(TrendHunter.com) Looking like a leaky blue balloon, or a big drop of water, Giulio Iacchetti’s “Drop” shower head for iB Rubinetterie, improves water delivery and because it’s made of silicon, it doesn’t allow for the formation of icky lime deposits. The whole idea is to save water when showering, making every “Drop…
(TrendHunter.com) Not a fan of brideszillas? (Get over it, girls) These non-traditional cake toppers really tickled my fancy. I love the idea of having an arguing couple on top of a cake. Lets face it, that will be a million times more realistic than a couple kissing, entwined with doves or other such nonsense!
In t…
(TrendHunter.com) I found out about Joao Sabino whilst looking at the keyboard bag (shown below) which led me to his website and in turn, a large section of some of his awesome designs.
I think the way he reinvents objects, such as the wine glasses, is really fresh and actually different, for once showing you can re…
(TrendHunter.com) Design Week Milan 2008 is just around the corner; this sneak peek reveals that metallic colors are going to be just as popular for furniture as it has been for clothing.
Although they look like it, these chairs aren’t inflatable, but they still look fantastic. Designer Arik Ben Simhon used full cu…
(TrendHunter.com) This morbid lamp was created by design studio Enpieza located in Spain. The Colgao (“hung” in Spanish) is hanging from the top horizontal rod of the lamp. The lamp looks very simple except for the tasteless, hanging anthropomorphic figure. Either the designers were fresh out of ideas or they are int…
(TrendHunter.com) Tres funky! Scheduled to be shown at the historical Milanese Gallery on April 16th, Ryan Frank’s creation ‘ZiG’ is a modular display/storage system made from solid bamboo. It’s set on caster wheels which allows for ease of movement which in turn allows you to be creative in the way you link th…
(TrendHunter.com) This future kitchen concept is so mind boggling. Designed by Aslihan Yilmaz, of Turkey, for the 2008 X-08 National Kitchen Design, this kitchen has everything you can possibly want. It’s completely foldable and the components and attachments are be folded away when not being used. The lamp on top pr…
(TrendHunter.com) This is considered a unique and rare limited edition armchair. Made of aluminium, the San Damas chair has an exaggerated back and arms designed to look like a bird with wings, splayed back legs and front legs in the manner of a bird’s legs and feet. All you’re missing is some nest-inspired footstool…
(TrendHunter.com) Do you hate going outside on summer days? Is it because you can’t bare the heat of the sun? You won’t have to stay cooped up indoors with you air conditioning blasted anymore thanks to a remarkable invention!
The Intelli Cool is said to be the first ever outside air conditioning unit that uses a s…
(TrendHunter.com) These ads, featuring US president George Bush, Kim Jong II, the leader of North Korea, and Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s dictator, are for an upcoming Amnesty International concert in Hungary.
Millions of people have complained to these leaders about their human rights records, but these political figu…
(TrendHunter.com) The owner of this home says it is “immoral” for people to have to die. Arakawa and his wife Madeline Gins designed this offbeat (understatement of the year) home. The undulating floor is like a 12 year old with acne — it has a lot of bumps. But the owners believe the home, called Bioscleave House (…
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