Candy Foil Vases – Chocolate Changing Vase (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Buying a beautiful vase can make a fantastic statement in your living room, but from time to time, you want a change. Inspired by the unwrapping of chocolate candy foils, like that on a Lindt bunny or Hershey’s Kiss, Front Design created the Chocolate Changing Vase.

The vase is wrapped in five bea…

Biodegradable Flower Pots – Graine De Pot

(TrendHunter.com) Designer François Clerc has designed the Graine De Pot, a special biodegradable pot for city dweller gardeners.

The pot is made from a biodegradable plastic container that expands. The container has a lifespan of approximately nine months. You’ll want to plant the seeds this season so your full…

Video Projections on People – Verlopen (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) I had to look at these images for several minutes to make sense of them. In fact, it wasn’t until after watching the video and reading the description that I recognized it was not only extremely unique art, but that these bizarre group portraits had an important social message.

They bring awarenes…

Cultural Handvertising – AT&T;Campaign (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) AT&T;has created a multi-cultural print campaign using painted hands. Each image is very colorful, light, and artistic, in a cartoonish kind of way, making it eye catching and very fun to look at. My favorite is the one with the Great Wall of China gloves. Very creative.

They feature painted hands…

Dripping Tar Sunglasses – Anna ter Haar Designs

(TrendHunter.com) Anna ter Haar seems to seek inspiration from drops quite a bit. These big, black sunglasses look as though they are dripping with thick tar. That’s usually a bag thing, but Haar made it look impossibly chic.

She made the black shades for the Klavers van Engelen fall/winter 2008/09 fashion show in …

Citroen Design Competition – Citroen Sledge Wins C-Design Contest (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) French auto makers Citroen ran the C-Design competition to see what designers could come up with using nothing but Citroen car parts and their logo in the design.

The winner was Ognyan Bozhilov who designed the Citroen sledge, the main image featured in the gallery. It uses car parts which include…

Celebrity Pop Art – Leesa Leva’s Olsen Twins (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Following the latest art trends, many artists are images of controversial young celebrities in their art pieces. They are not only style icons or gossip generators, they are also inspirational for modern artists.

Leesa Leva is one such artist who uses faces like that of the Olsen Twins or Britney S…

USB Displays II – Flash Drive Concept Shows Storage Left (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Tokyo-based designer Mac Funamizu loves to come up with creative designs of USB drives that show you how much space is left in fun and unusual ways.

Here we present you with three of his designs. A syringe shaped drive is not for those who hate needles. Data is represented as the liquid inside the…

3-in-1 Furniture in a Box – One To Three For Five (Seconds)

(TrendHunter.com) It seems that “furniture in a box” is the new black in design. It’s all about cramming functional designs in a simple unassuming box that saves space when the furniture is not used, and also keeps your place looking less cluttered and more abstract. The key design issue to keep in mind here is that …

Pleated Paper Furniture – The Cabbage Chair (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The designers at Nendo amaze me every time they come out with a new idea.

The design of this chair was created for the XXIst Century Man exhibition curated by Issey Miyake for the first anniversary of 21_21 Design Sight in Roppongi, Tokyo. The brief given by Mister Miyake was to make furniture out …

Recycled Magazine Art – Paper Coil Mirror (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Recycled and Organic are two keywords which are defining what’s fashionable this season. Check out this large, round mirror covered with coils of recycled magazine pagers. Rolled into coils, the pages of the magazine are attached to the mirror’s frame and then sealed for durability and shine. It’s f…

Exploding Hearts as Art – Beating Heart in a Box (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) The unique Beating Heart art by Billy Chasen was presented at the American Heart Association’s 2008 Heart of New York Gala at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York City.

I am not sure how to describe it, watch the video above as the heart sprays blood all over the inside of a glass cube and come u…

Musical Robots – Honda Asimo to Conduct Orchestra

(TrendHunter.com) A Honda robot will conduct the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in a concert that will take place on May 13th in Detroit. The Honda Asimo robot will pick up the baton and lead the human musicians in a rendition of Man of La Mancha’s Impossible Dream.

“The irony of a Japanese automaker trotting out an ad…

Photo Paintings – Custom Digital Portraits by Fawn & Forest (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) If you like the idea of customization, and you think family photos are an important element of the home, why not let the creative people and Fawn and Forest make you a custom digital portrait of your child?
Each painting is done by hand on a high quality canvas that is 1.5″ deep with no framing requ…

Haute Celebrity Fashion – Herve Ledger Bandage Dress (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The Herve Ledger, by Max Azaria, bandage dresses are the “it” fashion garment of the season, the rich and famous are going crazy for it. These bandage dresses hug the bodies of Lindsay Lohan, Victoria Beckham, Gisele Bundchen and Mariah Carey, just to name a very few.

Their ultra-sophisticated cut…

Urban Survival Kits – Subivor for Subway Emergencies (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) The Doomsday industry is expanding. A business by the name of Subivor has produced a so-called subway survival kit complete with protective mask, flashlight, a pry bar, a silver-tone metal whistle, and towelette pouch and a compact bag with a reflector tape.

The Subivor, which comes with its dooms…

Transformer Plants – From Vase to Flower to Vase Again (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) This vase not only adds a unique splash of design and greenery to your home, but it has beautiful symbolism. It begins as a brown vase, then as you nurture it, it blooms into a plant. After the leaves wilt, it returns back to its vase state.

Watch the video to see a time lapse of the living vase.
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Luminescent Leaf Lights – The Eco-Friendly Leaft (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Designer Stephan Siepermann showcased his unique Leaft wall lamp recently at Milan’s Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2008.

Each luminescent leaf in these LED lamps is made out of recycled plastic casts that are connected together into a branch. The design offers a soft playful intertwining of li…

Illuminated Eco-Chic Windows – Lightway (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) It appears that light bulbs may soon become obsolete if Damian Savio, a Sydney design student, has his way.

The Longueville designer invented Lightway window louvers that illuminate dwellings without the need of an external energy source or a light bulb. Using the latest in transparent photovolta…

Sharp Replica Sculptures – WMF Knives Ads (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) I love these artsy ads! This is a print commercial for WMF Knives which is a German-based company that has been manufacturing table and kitchenware products for over 150 years.

The ads are supposed to highlight just how sharp WMF’s knives are by showcasing sculpted mini replicas of various famous …