Fake Police – Cardboard Cops

(TrendHunter.com) For under $40, you can have a life-sized cardboard likeness of a law enforcer in your home. Very simplistic, but I hear it does the trick. At first glance, these cutouts appear to be real policemen, a…

Balloons for Geeks – Balloon Guy’s Art (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) This is some wicked, really skilled balloon art. These geeky balloon sculptures by Balloon Guy Entertainment or just Balloon Guy, features such video game and science fiction characters as Mario, the …

Accident-Avoiding Smart Cars – Michelin “Chess” Car

(TrendHunter.com) Thijs van der Zanden & Frans Hegge of Belgium submitted this vehicle design as part of the 2008 Michelin Challenge Designâ„¢. Titled the “Chess” car, the vehicle features two portions – the “motor” (t…

Carnival Cabinets – Lucas Rise (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Tired of neutral furniture? Then the carnival evoking cabinets of Argentinian designer Lucas Rise will put an explosion of colour in your living space. These are focal pieces extraordinaire. His inspi…

Political Fusion Portraits – Obama-Lincoln

(TrendHunter.com) Ron English, a New York-based counter culture billboard artist, created this Barack Obama-Abraham Lincoln fusion portrait that will likely spark some very lively discussions.

The image was created a…

Sculpted Fitness Chocolates – Abdominal Muscle Bars for Men (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) You know how they say Swiss chocolate is the best in taste? Well I think French chocolate is the best in presentation. The chocolatier Jean-Paul Hévin launched the first chocolate bars without sugar…

Pennies as Ad Mediums – Luckvertizing (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Luckvertizing is a term coined by Zoomdoggle.com who affixed the tail sides of 5,000 pennies with tiny messages of luck and their own URL. After about 50 hours of cutting and pasting, they distributed…

Child Drawings Turned Real Toys – Stuffed Lego Robot

(TrendHunter.com) After being inspired by a drawing from his son, a designer for Lego created a stuffed toy based on the doodles.

Moko isn’t the first designer to seek inspiration from the creative designs of childre…

Flower Stem Speakers – Constant Garden (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The Constant Garden allows you to take a break from the monotone world of stylish yet cold speaker designs by bringing a splash of color and a whole lot of funk in form. Each stem (which looks like Sh…

Compact Suitcases – Kompression Luggage (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The Kompression Luggage by designer Gary Wilkinson utilizes seatbelt-like straps to compress its volume by almost 40%.

The luggage easily compresses and decompresses according to your needs, making …

Double Sided Matches – Paolo Ulian’s Design Saves Trees (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) What a totally brilliant idea! When we light a match stick, we usually use a small portion of the wood while the rest goes to waste.

Italian designer Paolo Ulian came up with this extremely simple, …

Potted Tables – Little Garden Table

(TrendHunter.com) I love how this stylish table by Tokujin Yoshioka incorporates a convenient little garden right into the design allowing you to save space by having your plants and flowers flourish right under your t…

Rubber Bicycle Strap Storage – Droog Straps

(TrendHunter.com) The Droog Straps offer a new way to store your shoes or bags. NL Architects have created a storage system using rubber bicycle straps. The Droog Straps ($23), which can be mixed and matched in charcoa…

Custom Eco Adverbottles – Klean Kanteen Co-Branded Bottles (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Personal aluminum bottles are quickly gaining popularity, for health and ethical reasons. Klean Kanteen offers not only stylish plastic bottle alternatives, but the ability to customize them for marke…

Multimedia Coffee Tables – The Digitable (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The Digitable, by Peter Lea, integrates a CD/DVD player and disc storage carousel into a contemporary glass coffee table. The multimedia coffee table looks quite classy, glossy, and inviting. All you …

Fiber Optic Cabinets – Horm Voltaceleste by Salvatore Indriolo (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Horm Voltaceleste is a glowing cabinet by designer Salvatore Indriolo. The cupboard has lighting inside and its wooden doors feature optical fibers of various diameters whose positions are governed by…

Automotive X Prize Challenge – The ‘Hybrid Technologies’ Supercar

(TrendHunter.com) Hybrid Technologies, a development and marketing company of lithium-powered vehicles and products, is developing a super green car for the Automotive X Prize Challenge. The objective of this challenge…

Rooftop Lakes – Psycho Buildings at Hayward Gallery (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The Southbank Centre of the Hayward Gallery in London, England has become the home of a new exhibition called “Psycho Buildings”. The installation includes a roof top lake, designed like an infinity…

Coffee Cup Coat Racks – Birkiland

(TrendHunter.com) These fun hangers are by Icelandic designer, Ragnheidur Ingunn Agustsdottir and marketed through Birkiland. Cups are useful everyday objects, so why not use them in a totally different way? The cups t…

Ergonomic Relaxation Workstations – The SurfChair

(TrendHunter.com) Internet addicts just got another shot in the arm with the ergonomic SurfChair workstation. The brain child of Kenneth Lylover, the SurfChair is designed to mimic the laid back, relaxed style of a La-…