Contemporary Art In Airports – Troika’s Digital Cloud Sculpture (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Recently discovered, “Cloud” is an amazing work of digital art from Troika (a multi-disciplinary art and design practice founded in 2003) placed in Heathrow Terminal 5, on the new British Airways first class lounges. It’s an astonishing five meter long digital sculpture whose surface is covered by 4…

Garden On Your Desktop – The Sensory Lamp Concept

(TrendHunter.com) Are you sitting in front of the computer all day? You forgot how fresh air, nature and sunlight feels? If this is the case, close the browser, switch off the computer, and go out for a walk while the sun is out. If you can’t do that, we advise you to get the Sensory lamp, designed by Sara Rossbach…

Extreme Garden Art – Cultivating Calabash (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) A Chinese gardener has focused his obsessive behavior on growing calabash, a vine whose fruit can be eaten or dried out and used as a container. Sounds like a perfectly normal endeavor until you learn that Mr. Zha has spent 6 years and $830,000 on perfecting his hobby. These are no ordinary calabash…

Fuel Cell Powered Cell Phone – NEC Flask

(TrendHunter.com) NEC has designed a phone that in itself is the fuel cell. A hollow “flask” will hold the fuel, and what looks to be a valve at the bottom of the phone will be used to re-fuel your fuel cell powered phone.

Set to come out in 2008, the phone will feature a very cool touch screen that will be vis…

Remote Controlled Color – Multi-Color LED Lightbulb

(TrendHunter.com) These remote controlled, dimmable, multi-colored LED lightbulbs use only 5 Watts and have a 10,000 hour lifetime.

By using the remote control, you can pick from 15 colors including white, how cool is that? I’d like to have these all over my house; I guess I’m into mood lighting. Uncrate lists …

Sensory Feasts – Art by Dylan Martorell (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Melbourne artist Dylan Martorell is a master of the ‘sensory feast.’ This creative extraordinaire produces mind-blowing drawings, sculptors, sound exhibitions, installations, photography and concert posters. Oh – and he also sells t-shirts.

Sound is one of the most important elements to Marto…

Futuristic Steel Armchair – Alaska Chair

(TrendHunter.com) Alaska – The perfect name for a chair that looks as cool as the state it is named after. This mirror polished Stainless Steel Armchair is the perfect accompaniment to all the other stainless steel furniture and accessories you have in accumulated your home. Emilio Nanni is the designer behind the fu…

Light Tattoos & Skin Embossing – Temporary Body Mods by Kye Ok Kim (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) This series of incredible temporary body modifcation devices was designed by Kye Ok Kim and showcased at Seoul Design Week 2007. They allow those who want to express themselves through artistic body work to do so via light, print or paint.

The light-emitted brooches project patterns onto the skin …

Urban Gardens – Living Wall Planters (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Imagine wall art that was eco-friendly, added Mother Nature to your living room and was a constantly changing spectacle, and you will come close to envisioning something like the creative Living Wall Planters.

At $169, they are relatively good priced, especially since they are coupled with the ent…

Drag Queens and Masked Dogs – Venice Carnival (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Italy draws in tourists from around the world for a variety of reasons. If you’re not drawn to the historical architecture, fashion, or enticed by the thought of authentic vongole, you may be intrigued by more vibrant cultural venues like the annual Carnival of Venice.

This year’s event takes plac…

Pharrell Williams for Louis Vuitton – Blason Jewelry (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Continuing his association with Louis Vuitton, performer-producer Pharrell Williams has teamed up with LV’s creative jewelry consultant, Camille Miceli to introduce a brand new jewelry collaboration under the Blason banner. The avant garde styles will be paraded at the Paris fashion shows, and take …

Customizable Light Fittings – Tile + Light

(TrendHunter.com) These way cool tiles have customizable light fittings so that they can be arranged in any manner of ways. Tile + Light can be used strictly as architectural enhancement, or as a way to subtly light a space. The tiles might also be used as an aesthetic element in public spaces, such as museums or the…

Bobby Pin Necklaces & Other Recycled Jewelry – Mana Bernandes

(TrendHunter.com) Luxury and beauty can be found in every household, and that is exactly the message behind Mana, a new jewelry line.

Mana Bernandes is a Brazillian jewelry designer behind the Mana line included in the TOUCH online gallery.

This designer brings new meaning to the term creative reuse and recycling…

Futuristic Custom Desk – Vision One Computer Desk (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Look at this desk and tell me you don’t think of banging on those pads like Larry Mullen of U2. Well, budding skin-banger, this is not for that purpose. The Vision One Computer Desk is for working or gaming.

It has a luxurious, adjustable leather seat and comes in original, flagship and corner var…

Striving For Ultimate Eco Friendly Movement – Car-on-a-stick (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The search for the ultimate eco-friendly transportation continues with the Car-On-A-Stick. Or Largest-Streetlamp-Ever. The idea behind Ross Lovegrove’s car is that doubles as a street lamp, so there are no worries about parking. It would be solar powered, voice-activated and carry four people in a b…

Baby Fairy Tale – $15,000 Carriage Crib

(TrendHunter.com) We’ve seen the foldable crib for the nomad, and the bullet proof crib for 50 cent’s kids, but we haven’t really seen a crib that comes with a 3 year warranty and option of fairy godmother, Tinkerbelle or a regular nymph, that is until the carriage crib.

Like something straight out of a Disney…

Eco-Friendly Sculptures – Hubcap Creatures (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) These beautiful sculptures have charisma and character. They are designed by Ptolemy and are made from automobile hubcaps that were found lying about roadways and junk yards.

Each Hubcap Creature is made from 100% recycled material and often show the scars of their previous existence, which simply…

Elaborate Burn-Proof Coffee Mug – Brugo

(TrendHunter.com) This seemingly ‘normal’ coffee mug is an engineering marvel on the inside. Like traditional vessels of our morning nectar, the Brugo mug keeps its contents hot, acting as an insulator. But, with each sip, Brugo’s patented, thermodynamic science prefills a small chamber – allowing the liquid to cool …

Musical Mood Interiors – The White Box by Skloib (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) This design of home automation is so cool The White Box design from Skloib is an idea of how technology can change your space to suit your mood. Having an orange day? Play orange music, show orange lights, change your pictures to orange tones. The technology allows you to control your interior desig…

Exquisite Crystal Lighting – Giogali by Vetreria Vistosi (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) This truly extraordinary design was handmade on the Island of Murano, Italy.

The Giogali collection is part of Vistosi’s crystal pieces collection, made from loops of intertwined crystal. The loops can be customized for everything from lamps to wall mounted lighting. The beauty of these pieces is…