Technical Textile Pillows – LED City Cushions (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Florence Bost is the designer and creator of the City pillows. These are technical textile cushions which contain a LED (light emitting diodes) wire connected to a battery box. There is also music and changing colors incorporated in the pretty design of these tech cushions and as decoration, they ar…

Funky Bathtubs – 5 Stylish Soakers (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Designers are paying more attention to bathroom design, and bathtubs are the focal pieces of these rooms.

Here are five beautiful and eye-catching bathtub designs. The tubs include everything from circular to square shaped, from see-through glass to classic white with built-in shelves for towels. F…

Biker Computers – LED Motorcycle PC

(TrendHunter.com) This is a LED motorcycle computer case mod. The liquid-cooled casemod modeled after a bike PC is not a real nbcycle as far as functionality is concerned as it was designed to remain stationary and look pretty. As a computer case, it is very unique, but I’m pretty sure that there are many people out …

Transformer Crutches – Crutch Chair (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Walking with crutches takes a whole lot more stamina and physical effort than normal walking. Hence, you need to take a little rest, a breather, each now and then. But it’s not always easy to find a seat or steps you can rest on while walking on the street. That is where the Crutch Chair comes.

The…

Postcard Cameras – Snap + Send Postcard

(TrendHunter.com) Created by Stuart Calvey, the “Snap + Send Postcard” allows you to snap pictures and then mail the camera – which resembles, and is almost as thin as, a postcard – directly to the whoever you like. This is a great concept even though I don’t think you should expect great quality out of this gadget..…

Folding Booty Scooters – XO Move (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The XO Move concept scooter looks cool and acts cool. When you’re ready to park and disembark, the back folds forward to secure it from being wheeled away. It should easily be able to carry two people and has a wheelbase that can be adjusted to make it more stable at high speed.

It was a group pro…

Intentional Watermarks – Sukurasaku Glasses Leave Flower Prints

(TrendHunter.com) Now here’s a glass with some sophisticated simplicity! The Sakurasaku glasses look ordinary at first glance, but the bases are actually shaped like a flower, causing them to leave cute cherry blossom patterns on the table.

They were created by Japanese designer, Hironao Tsuboi for 100perstore.com. …

Fashion Pop – Coca-Cola Fashion Week Collector’s Bottles

(TrendHunter.com) Who says Art and packaging design are hard to combine?
Each year during the Fashion Week in São Paulo, Coca-Cola Brazil launches its limited-edition Coca-Cola Light bottle decorated with a full-body shrink film from Sleever Intl.

The 237-mL glass bottle exclusively distributed during the Fashion…

Mood Sensitive Design – The Mood Bowl Changes Color (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) This pear glass, which plugs into the wall, changes color according to your mood. The mood bowl is capable of going through a cycle of 8 different colors but it can also remain on the same color of your choosing. This is a simple ornament designed to give the room ambiance and a relaxing mood.

Design Cans 2 – Pepsi Artco Cans

(TrendHunter.com) Last year, we saw Diet Coke launch limited edition “design” cans featuring art from top Irish artists. It was a great idea, and now Pepsi’s on board with a similar promotion.

Cary Lietzes of ARTCO is trying to find the right blend of art in packaging design. Her new project for Pepsi includes artw…

Crayon Sculptures – Crayola Kids by Diem Chau (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) While most of us were content to scribble our crayons to nubs, or melt them, or eat them, Diem Chau looked at the Crayola Crayon and saw something to sculpt into tiny pieces of art. Ms. Chau, a Vietnam native, loves to combine media.

One of her projects was using crayons and sculptures of children…

Urban Art Mashups – Pure Evil & Miss Bugs Collaboration

(TrendHunter.com) OK so we have all heard about DJ ‘mashups’ – but two London street art artists are doing a mashup collaboration style thing too – and the result ROCKS.

MISS BUGS & PURE EVIL (whose kick ass ‘Pearly Kings & Queens’ have already featured on TH) are both releasing a print on the 10th April – then th…

Bottled Ice Cream Floats – Schweppes Root Beer Float

(TrendHunter.com) For years, beverage makers have tried to crack the code to develop an indulgent drink that tastes like a homemade rootbeer float. Cadburry Schweppes, with its brands A&W;and Sunkist, is introducing a drink which is supposed to match the flavours of home-made floats.

According to the company, “They…

Pipe Organs Played By Waves – Sea Organ (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Architect Nikola Basic has recently received the European Prize for Urban Public Space for the very cool Sea Organ project, an architectural and experimental musical object located in Zadar, Croatia.

“The Sea Organ is a pipe organ that has a set of 35 musically tuned tubes located underneath a set…

Color Coded Chopping Boards – For OCD Chefs (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) This is a very smart concept for cutting boards. The plastic base resembles a folder file that contains four cutting boards of different colors each one representing a specific food group. The green board is to be used for vegetables, the blue one for fish, the red for meat and the white for cooked …

Eco-Friendly Charging Umbrellas – Parasolar (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Parasolar is the perfect name: it’s a parasol, meant to be used during sunny days, and it captures solar energy to recharge your gadgetry. Oded Shoreer made this for the Greener Gadgets Competition

The cloth has panels of photovoltaic cells that transfer power to a charger in the handle with a coup…

Designer Homes – Frank’s New Gehry Residence (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Frank Gehry is an absolute genius when it comes to designing cutting edge architecture. Gehry has so been a huge influence on a lot of modern architectural masterpieces. Innovative is the word that comes to mind when I try to describe his use of fluid shapes and original materials in the structures …

Embossed Bodies – Ninette van Kamp Lingerie (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) First we saw bed sheets that embossed messages on your body as you sleep, and now there is this body-embossing lingerie.

“Ninette van Kamp is an interdisciplinary and interactive designer from the Netherlands currently exploring the conflicting relationship between pain and beauty through the medi…

City Facelift Competitions – Liverpool Observatory Design Winner (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The competition to make Liverpool a location known as something other than the birthplace of the Beatles is over, and Duggan Morris Architects won.

92 entries from around the world covet this opportunity. The Duggan Morris observatory consists of two distinct buildings: a visitor’s center and an o…

Longevity Furniture – Bioscleave House Expands Lifespan (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The owner of this home says it is “immoral” for people to have to die. Arakawa and his wife Madeline Gins designed this offbeat (understatement of the year) home. The undulating floor is like a 12 year old with acne — it has a lot of bumps. But the owners believe the home, called Bioscleave House (…