(TrendHunter.com) The Oulu Bar & EcoLounge in Williamsburg is Brooklyn’s first living wall installation. In addition to vastly improving the looks of the bar (see before picture), the vertical greenery installment makes a very loud environmental statement to all passersby. We can all help by incorporating environment…
(TrendHunter.com) Cup & Jug from Vert design is an exploration of fluidity, interaction and function. It’s smooth, organic form has a lightness and elegance that addresses notions of aesthetic appeal. It is a unique design that is stylish, functional and natural to use.
Cup & Jug was designed with seamless user in…
(TrendHunter.com) Although it’s been reported that this door chain design might just be an April’s Fools day, I fell for it and I think it is just awesome! As long as you do not mind spending a little more time going through a maze to get to the other end than you would on a normal door chain, ofcourse.
The Defendiu…
(TrendHunter.com) It’s all you, you, you. Well for Scion anyway, which is launching Scion Speak, which allows the car brand’s enthusiasts to personalize their vehicles yet further with custom-made modern age heraldic crests reflecting their lifestyle and passions. Designed in consultation with the fiercely loyal Scio…
(TrendHunter.com) The motivation behind designer’s Philippe Malouin’s The Unit is the fact that the average European flat ranges from 30 to 50 square meters.
Since space has become a luxury, the furniture must be ultra compact and accomplish a maximum amount of tasks.
With this design, Malouin wanted to comprise …
(TrendHunter.com) When completed, this exhibition complex, designed by Thompson, Ventulet, Stainback and Associates, will be the largest in China. Located near the capital airport, and drawing on traditional elements like gates and gardens, the complex is linked to the river and the green belt. It includes 16 individ…
(TrendHunter.com) These plushy little bundles are actually stuffed fully customizable toys. The Plusform from Shawnimals and Squibbles Inc is like a three dimensional blank canvas that you can paint, colour, or sew fun extras on, like a tail or rhinestone eyes.
The critter, based on the Shawnimals popular Wee Ninja…
(TrendHunter.com) Taking a bath or shower doesn’t just involve soap and water anymore. From products like glow-in-the-dark bubble bath and soap that looks like French fries to the actual showers themselves, which now come with coloured water, mood tiles and the ability to kick you out for wasting water, innovations i…
(TrendHunter.com) Since I’ve started writing for Trend Hunter, it seems we’ve covered, “the world’s largest” or “tallest” building several times. On each occasion, after getting ready to file it as duplicate, I have discovered the new blue prints are, in fact, bigger than the last.
The race is on the become the bigg…
(TrendHunter.com) This young woman has a rare skin condition known as dermatographia. This is an immune system skin hypersensitivity that releases histamine which is the chemical (neuro-transmitter) your body produces when you’re having an allergic reaction. High levels of histamine cause this woman’s blood vessels t…
(TrendHunter.com) The first container building in the U.S. is planned for downtown Salt Lake City, Utah. The development was designed by Adam Kalkin and will be called city Center Lofts. The ultra-modern totally green condo building will have eight units and an art gallery on the ground floor. It will be built with …
(TrendHunter.com) This is a video of an installation of seven double-sided vertical screens that is currently in front of the OSRAM main office in Munich, Germany.
OSRAM is one of the two largest lighting manufacturers in the world and is a subsidiary of Siemens AG. This is an interactive art display called Reactiv…
(TrendHunter.com) Finally, a stroller that is designed to traverse stairs. The Metrolla Strolla is an awkward high-chair-on-wheels-looking-thingamajig that would also look good in any urban family’s foyer (pronounced foy-a). Then again this baby-moving machine from designer, Dan Levin, looks like something off of rob…
(TrendHunter.com) The compositions of Johann Sebastian Bach are internationally well known, but what he looked like physically isn’t.
Although he only sat for one portrait his entire life, images of the composer are plentiful as are nicely sculptured busts.
Anthropologist Caroline Wilkinson used state-of-the-art c…
(TrendHunter.com) These bags are perfect for those moms who like to brag about their kids’ supposed artistic inclinations when, most of the time, it is just plain (and very normal) doodle. Scribble Couture will allow those mothers to show off their spawn’s scribble on their bags by having the doodle stitched onto lea…
(TrendHunter.com) The big building competition in the Arabian Peninsula is really heating up with a really ginormous tower just announced for Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Although we revealed this project would be under construction, we didn’t know where it would be built.
The plans show it will be twice as big as the alre…
(TrendHunter.com) Normally architects don’t like to deal with the jiggle factor when designing a structure. But when your raw material jelly, it is a prerequisite. Bompas & Parr are running a jelly design competition as part of this summer’s London Festival of Architecture. The resulting molds and preparatory materia…
(TrendHunter.com) This home furniture was created with waste wood that was grabbed, so to speak, by two guys, Bart Bettencourt and Carlos Salgado, who turned it into really nice pieces of work.
Bettencourt and Salgado, whose shop called Scrapile is located in Brooklyn NY, have developed a unique method of collectin…
(TrendHunter.com) Researchers at Kassel University are exploring a new type of building material that involves inflating a flexible skin and then, filling embedded cavities with concrete. Voila – inflatable concrete! A pop-up building! Blow it up. Squirt some stuff inside. Move in the furniture.
(TrendHunter.com) This keyboard was inspired by a snail and is based around a one-handed design (kind of strange considering snails don’t have hands at all). The concept utilizes a rotating keywheel that spins at a 5:1 ratio (this means the keywheel moves 5 times the distance of the sideways movement of the mouse). H…
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