Deceptive Furniture – DRIFT Ghost Chair (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The Ghost Chair is an ethereal, other worldly looking chair not because of it’s shape, but because it seems to have two shapes. DRIFT, an ultra cool design studio, is making a series of chairs using the three dimensions captured within the design of the chair. It provides for the existence of a cha…

Baby Rice Bags – Personalized Yosimiya Sacks (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The Japanese love narcissistic products just as much as we do in the west, but they put their own unique spin on it… like Yosimiya’s custom rice bags for babies! Hey, it’s never too soon to start!

Instead of a standard bag of rice, with maybe some text or basic logo on it, people can now get thei…

Ecological Towers – The Green Tower, Siberia (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) British designer Sir Norman Foster has revealed his designs for the Green Tower, a new ecological tower in Khanty Mansyisk, Siberia.

The tower design takes the local weather and nature of Siberia into account. The 280- meter tower centers around a south-facing atrium to maximize daylight and solar …

Life-Sized Cars on Walls 2 – Gigantic BMW Ad (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) This is one of the biggest ads in Russia. Located right in the center of Moscow, this ad features full-sized BMWs like the Z4 M Coupe, M3, M5 and the M6 cars with headlights that turn on in the evening stuck on the wall. The cars are full-sized but they are not real and the ad measures more than one…

Advertising on Toilet Paper – JustToiletPaper isn’t Just Toilet Paper (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) We’ve seen 10 amazing toilet paper designs which prove toilet paper is for more than just wiping. Justtoiletpaper.com realized the same thing. The company launched a line of printed toilet paper, perfect for advertising or delivering a personal message!

“On the average, people go to the bathroom 6…

Recycled Home Designs – Bottle Lamps II (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) These are lamps made out of different kinds of recycled bottles and chains. There are soda bottles, milk bottles and plastic bottles. Some of these designs are simple enough and are DIY (Do It Yourself) such as the collection of the 5 clear soda bottles which is the next to last photo. This arrange…

Glow in the Dark Spray Paint Games – Virtual Park

(TrendHunter.com) Pierre Haulot and Nike teamed up to create Virtual Park. This is a glow in the dark spray paint to create boundaries, lines, a ball that glows in the night, etc that allows a pick up game of basketball or soccer or hockey, etc to go well into the night. The paint disappears after a couple of hours a…

Paper-Based Architecutre – Shigeru Ban Tea House (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Architect Shigeru Ban designed the Tea House which was made from paper-based building materials. It was designed to show how materials can be recycled and reused using low-tech construction, ideal for temporary housing for situations like disaster relief.

They also quipped about the house being pe…

Self-Making Beds – Selfy the EasyBed

(TrendHunter.com) The alarm clock goes off. You roll out of bed and stumble into the bathroom to brush your teeth. As you walk back into the bedroom, you stop and stare. Something isn’t quite right. Something is different. MY BED! IT’S MADE! Oh yeah, I forgot I bought one of those self-making beds designed by Enrico …

Cheeky Care-Toons – Mother Earth by Jane Wegner (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Mother Earth Care-Toons are a series of illustrations by Jane Wagner with a message on the environment. They’re quirky, cheeky and very clever!

The text below an illustration of bears says, “Don’t say anything to Gore — but if you ask me, An Inconvenient Truth it’s a f — kin’ understatement.”

A…

Reclosable Cans – Coca Cola Burn

(TrendHunter.com) Thanks to a new type of can top made of plastic and aluminium, it is now possible to reseal both steel and aluminium cans after initial opening. The “Ball Resealable End” is the top of a can into which a flat opening mechanism made of plastic is integrated. A simple rotating movement uncovers th…

Designer ArtVertising (UPDATE) – HUGO Create Winners (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Hugo has announced the winners of round 1 of the creative Hugo Create contest on 1 April, 2008. The 10 winners will recieve $500 each and will have the chance to be printed in I-D magazine or even used in an official Hugo campaign.

The ten winning designs are: Tom Moran (UK), Ashley Paul Smith (UK)…

Contests to Redesign Currencies – British Pound Gets A New Face

(TrendHunter.com) The British currency has been given a new face for its coins. The 26 year old graphic designer Matthew Dent drew his inspiration for the new coins from the Shield of the Royal Arms and he was the fortunate one to win the design competition out of 4,000 entries.

The design is quite special. While mo…

Toy Cars as Pop Surrealism – Hot Wheels and Gallery 1988 Exhibit (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Hot Wheels cars, along with Gallery 1988 (G1988), celebrated its 40th anniversary by putting together a pop surrealist exhibit featuring a collection of artwork inspired by classic toy brands. More than 40 of the most famous pop surrealist artists from around the world made their contribution by cre…

Recycled Landline Phones – SunCorp & Chauhan Eco Phones (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) For those of us who still hang on to our landlines, this telephone design is a timeless and beautiful product. Named Colombo one, Colombo two, Big and Sandy eco, a “green” phone made of recycled plastic and in a recycled packaging. The phone reestablishes a visual relationship between earpiece a…

Bubble LEDs – White Balloons Lamp (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) LEDs produce more light per watt than incandescent bulbs. This is an LED white balloon (light emitting diodes) lamp which is very, very attractive. The lamp is made of polypropylene which is a plastic polymer (natural and synthetic materials with a variety of properties and purposes) which is used i…

Heartbeat-Inspired Designs – Pulseline Shelf (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Inspired by the pulseline that illustrates the heartbeat, the Pulseline book shelf by MÃ¥ns Salomonsen is made of 3mm sheet metal and the edge is painted with fluorescent green glows in blacklight.

Apart from the cool design, I like how the shelf provides convenient places to hold large books in th…

Tubular Microwaves – Bagetty Microwave

(TrendHunter.com) If you are a fan of quick, hot, tubular food, Martin Zampach is your guy. He made the concept Bagetty microwave that is not a box. If you only microwave hot dogs, weinies, sausage, this is much more convenient and space conscience than the bigger traditional microwave. This could spawn a whole new p…

Candy Pillows – Bonjour Mon Coussin

(TrendHunter.com) These pillows from Bonjour Mon Coussin, which means, “Hello, my dear pillow,” in French, are the perfect home accessory if you have a sweet tooth.

As long as you don’t bite into them, they’ll be the most scrumptious design edition. They really do look appetizing though, temptation to eat them coul…

Hip Study Spaces – Ørestad College (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Seriously! If we’d had colleges that looked like this, some of us might have stayed long enough to graduate! But then again, Ørestad College in Copenhagen, Denmark is just about the the coolest study space I’ve ever seen and studying may not be the first thing that comes to mind. Open, airy spaces …