Recyclable Chic Furniture – Beth Fuller’s Junkture Table

(TrendHunter.com) The Junkture Table is yet another example that furniture made from recycled material does not have to look like crap. This chic table’s centerpiece was made from a magnesium wheel rim that was recovered from a junkyard in NYC. This rim was then covered with black glass for that avant garde, urban ch…

Green Parking Spaces – The Santa Monica Civic Center Makes Own Energy

(TrendHunter.com) The Santa Monica Civic Center parking is the first parking space with LEED certified parking structure on the planet says ecofriend. LEED is the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Green Building Rating System which is the national standard by which a green building is judged. Buildings ar…

Artistic Eco Tableware – Origami Crockery (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Why settle for these ugly disposable plates when designer Oksana Bazanova offers you an artisticly cool and environment-friendly alternative?

The Origami Crockery come as flat sheets of waterproof paper that you can fold whenever you need to use.

When you have a big party, let each person fold his…

Top 33 Mood Sensitive Technologies – Emotional Futurism

(TrendHunter.com) When people think of technology, they often think of cold or emotion-less electronics. Judging by the recurring mood-sensitive innovations we’ve featured, that doesn’t look to be the case. In fact, incorporating human emotion has become a key attribute of a lot of future gadgets, from emotion-sensit…

Pencil Shaving Necklaces – Victorian Mason Jewellery (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) I adore this range of “domestic” jewelry from Australian designer Victoria Mason, especially the pencil sharpener as I remember trying to keep the shavings perfect too. The chair and paper plane are equally glorious and random. And that is just the necklace…

Earrings come in the form of Nice Bisc…

Optical Illusion Ads – Touch Someone with a Letter

(TrendHunter.com) This amazing image comes from The Australian Postal Service.

The text in the background of the image appears to be wrapping around the hugging couple. It says, “If you really want to touch someone, send them a letter”.

Amazing optical illusion. Great ad.

Art Nouveau Lamps – Enache Florin’s “O” (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The name of is this beautiful ambient lamp is “O”. Sounds like the title of a mildly erotic novel. Yanko Design says, “O” the spherical ambient lamp is made out of composite materials and consists of elegant art nouveau symbols illuminated at varying intensities by rotating a ring. The lamp can…

Inflatable Garbage Animals – Air Zoo by Joshua Alan Harris (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Garbage as design is a modern art form that seems to be on the rise, as the push to become environmentally innovative grows stronger. A different approach to this green art form is this recent guerrilla campaign featuring animals made of recycled garbage bags. Art student Joshua Alan Harris literall…

Church-Offending Art II – Homoerotic Last Supper

(TrendHunter.com) This homoerotic recreation of Leonardo’s Last Supper has offended a Viennese cardinal, making it second piece of modern art on Trend Hunter we’ve known to offend the church.

Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn, archbishop of Vienna, described the image as “a homosexual orgy” of Apostles, which he found …

9 Zaha Hadid Designs + Guggenheim Hermitage Museum (SUPER GALLERY) (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Trend Hunter has featured numerous designs by the talented Zaha Hadid. Here we present you with her latest design that won a competition to design the Guggenheim Hermitage Museum in Vilnius, Lithuania.

According to Zaha Hadid Architects, “The new centre for international art will house pieces fro…

Computer Virus Paintings – The Unexpected Beauty Of Malwarez (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Some of the most insidious malware to come down the pike such as NetSky, Mydoom and Parite have been rendered into 3-D visuals. Romanian artist and MIT researcher Alex Dragulescu has studied the recurring patterns of the most dangerous computer codes that can bring down networks and “painted” them i…

Hand-Painted Keyboards – Gold Boards & More (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) If you can’t afford to type on a real golden keyboard, perhaps this hand-painted one is an alternative. The bronzed board is one of several painted computer keyboards from GeekStuff.

You could save the $214 and paint your own with nail polish or coat one in metallic spray paint. I think I’ll stick…

Google Earth Games – Where On Earth Is Waldo? (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Remember the Where’s Waldo books you loved as a kid? Now you can play the high-tech, ultra-modern version with Google Earth!

Where On Earth Is Waldo? is the creation of Melanie Cole, a Media Art student who came up with the idea for her graduation project.

The glasses-clad, lanky geek in the stri…

Cewebrity Tattoos – Tay Zonday Chocolate Rain Ink (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Remember Tay Zonday, the young baritone who become famous for his YouTube video in which he sang Chocolate Rain? One guy loved the internet celebrity so much, he had Zonday’s face tattooed on his shoulder!

I’m a bit of an odd person myself, so I can’t judge others for doing bizarre things, but thi…

GPS Steering Wheels – Takata CSW

(TrendHunter.com) GPS systems for our automobiles have become mainstream. I have to admit that there are lots of LCD buttons to hit, directional-type hints to ponder. Not with the Takata CSW Steering Wheel. This steering wheel displays an easy-to-understand arrow – just follow which way it points. The position of the…

Straw Lamps – A Sip of Light (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) So you’re cramming before your exams and want a light that lets you read at night without disturbing your roommates. Oh, and giving you easy access to the caffeine that keeps you awake is a good bonus.

A Sip of Light by designer Sung-Kyu Nam is an ultra portable straw-inspired study light that tur…

High Tech TV Chairs – NapTV (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) NapTV is a new concept that combines a TV and a Chair in one design. You can sit on NapTV as a normal chair, but you can also watch TV by sliding under it or positioning it towards you. The built-in speakers are bound to give you a good listening experience.

Perfect for watching that boring show w…

Deceptive Architecture – 3D Murals (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Murals are a great way to infuse major personality into a piece of architecture, whether inside of or out. They’re eye catching as regular paintings, but as these clever paintings demonstrate, they can be even more awe inspiring when done with a 3D technique.

These murals are deceiving at first gl…

Creative Self Promotion – Innovative Business Cards (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) These are some of the really nice and creative business cards I found in a blog I like. There was a very wide selection so picking just five was difficult. These are the cards I enjoyed the most with a very brief description.

The first one in the gallery is an oblivious dog tag card. I find the se…

Counterculture Biographies – Home Sweet Home is About Banksy’s Bristol (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Home Sweet Home is a book about Banksy, who is arguably the best-known graffiti artist in the world. Banksy is also very shifty, clandestine and surreptitious. Nobody seems to know a whole lot about the Bristol, England native. And whoever knows something is not talking. Anyway, “Home Sweet Home”, s…