(TrendHunter.com) Tim Flack’s portfolio of photography is astonishing. He captures stunning images of animals using unexpected perspectives and extreme close-up points of view. Flack’s photos of bats are genius, he actually makes them look.. cute… in a way. There is a sense of actually ‘experiencing’ the c…
(TrendHunter.com) Inspired by the Agave plant, a tropical cactus with distinctive fleshy-leaved flowers, new zealand born, london-based designer jeremy cole launched his promising design career with this beautiful Aloe lamps collection.
The Aloe collection includes three designs – the Bud, which represents the birt…
(TrendHunter.com) The BBQ-Donut is a floating party table. This invention is actually a boat with a very quiet, electric motor on board. It seats 10 people around a BBQ pit/table and includes a stereo system, coolers under the seats, and a sunshade above the rider’s heads.
(TrendHunter.com) For self-confessed car freak Steve Heller, his love of 1950’s Cadillac models inspired him to thread into the sphere of furniture design. Heller has built functional art such as chests, tables, bars, entertainment units, beds and dressers from metal and wood and the result of his efforts are really …
(TrendHunter.com) Other than a bowl of real, healthy fruit to eat, the fake fruit bowl as a decor item is so tacky most people would not contemplate having it in their homes. Even the better attempts at realism still fall far short of any artistic expectations. Until Anthony Biancaniello’s Art Glass Fruit, that is.…
(TrendHunter.com) When most of us think of stuffed animals, we think cuddly, cute, snuggly and lovable. For some designers have more twisted, less affectionate associations with the toys. Matt Kirkland tore open this series of stuffed animals to reveal the insides of them, showing what the inner workings of mechanica…
(TrendHunter.com) Italian cartoonist Donald Soffritti, known for drawing characters like Padre Tony and the Super Zeroes, has found a pet hobby. He visualizes the popular superheroes of today in their senior years.
After all, even Wonder Woman has to age, just as Batman and the others do… well, except for the pha…
(TrendHunter.com) Inspired by the works of the artist Giger, designer Benjamin Wysk used Giger’s amorphous forms as a biomechanical symbiosis in his Strobe watch design “to reflect there the person and the clock.”
According to Wysk, the design, which is an entry in the Signity watch design contest 2008, is for peopl…
(TrendHunter.com) A fun guerrilla campaign to promote Pantene Anti-Breakage Shampoo has just been deployed in Toronto, Canada.
The campaign uses enormous braids a la Rapunzel that dangle from buildings, complete with a dummy of a man climbing them. The obvious nod to the well-known fairytale is used to demonstrate…
(TrendHunter.com) The Solid car was designed by Nikita Gutsalenko, a student at the Product Design and Transport Design at the Ural State Academy of Architecture and Arts, Russia. The aim of Gutsalenko’s design is to help solve the issue of overcrowded parking spaces.
The concept car comes with the standard safety f…
(TrendHunter.com) Hardcore, New Finnish Design is presenting Noa Bembibre and her Glass Knives collection during New York Design Week 2008.
“Bembibre’s glass knives combine the very ancient roots of design – transforming rocks into tools – with innovative contemporary kitchenware design,†HardcoreDesign s…
(TrendHunter.com) Those with a modern sense of style and a dwelling to match will appreciate the ‘Architect’s Bird Feeder’ .
Architect Doug Patt designed the contemporary feeder out of bullet-proof polycarbonate. Why bullet-proof? I can only assume that the material’s clearness and durability was his rationale…
(TrendHunter.com) Designed by Charles Constantine, Memento is a wooden coffee table that can store books, magazines and other personal mementos during your lifetime. The design twist is that it also awaits your death to store YOU. As a bonus, an open casket is easily arranged with the conveniently removable top piece…
(TrendHunter.com) Joshua Hoffine is an artist who finds inspiration in Hollywood icons like Stanley Kubrick. He directs the stars of his photos, usually family and friends, using elaborate sets and props, make-up and lighting to create creepy images that are terrifyingly beautiful. Hoffine evokes the fears that we al…
(TrendHunter.com) The Gownchair is a limited edition, luxury-priced, sculptural chair by Giorgia Paolini from the Paolini Design Store. Its flowing contours and strong visual impact will suit those with an appreciation of fashion, art and bold design.
It is handmade of fibreglass — the production presentation on th…
(TrendHunter.com) Is graffiti art or vandalism? There are different opinions about that, but this is a type of graffiti I haven’t seen before. It’s animated.
An artist that calls him self Blu created this video with of his animated graffiti story. The MUTO project was made on the walls of Buenos Aires in Argentina …
(TrendHunter.com) Talk about telephone installations! Jean-Luc Cornec’s Telephone Sheep is totally made from telephones and telephone cable. There is a whole flock of them, artfully arranged at at the Museum for Communications in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Some of the sheep appear to be grazing, some huddled toge…
(TrendHunter.com) While coffee is a universal drink, different cultures have different rituals and ways of drinking it. For example, while most people in New York City would have their coffee “to go†and drink it on the move, you’d be hard pressed to find the same in Paris, where the typical coffee drinking is …
(TrendHunter.com) After being introduced to the brilliant Bart Hess through his lucyandbart collaboration with Lucy McRae, my fascination is further solidified by his latest project: The Hunt for Hightech.
With his Hunt for Hightech art project, Hess created a collection of fake fur that touches on elements of fetis…
(TrendHunter.com) Cognizant of the fact sailboats cause a lot of damage to the ecosystem, designer Max Koriath conceived the 3D Plywood Boat.
“By using a patented new process that applies a beech wood veneer to readily available plywood parts, this design gives you all the luxury and durability of more costly woods…
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