(TrendHunter.com) Designer Tommaso Colia has an eco-friendly shower design that will force you to get out when you take too long and waste much water. The eco_drop shower features beautiful concentric circles that will rise to force you to stop showering when you take too long, and accordingly save water.
I think t…
(TrendHunter.com) Zaha Hadid is an award-winning architect whose work has been featured in trade publications a lot as of late. Or so it seems.
Hadid was the designer of Chanel’s odd-looking traveling exhibit which debuted in Hong Kong last month. In any event, Zaha Hadid was commissioned to design Campus de la Jus…
(TrendHunter.com) Despite what you may have been told, colouring books are not just for kids. Just look at this urban colouring book and sticker kit from Sanithna Phansavanh! It integrates black and white photographs of city scenes, then lays over black outlines, like the ones in a kids colouring book that you can de…
(TrendHunter.com) This sleek prototype B.A.T. 11 was conceived by Italian design house Stile Bertone to be presented at the Geneva Motor Show.
The B.A.T. 11 “is based on the Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione high performance coupe, but the B.A.T. 11 was named to reconnect to the studio’s famous B.A.T. 5, B.A.T. 7 and B.A.T…
(TrendHunter.com) The Florence TAV Station in Italy will make high-speed, long distance trains travelling through the city a thing of the past.
When it opens to the public in 2010, trains will pass through a seven kilometer tunnel, with the entrance at Campo di Marte station and the exit at Castello. The existing r…
(TrendHunter.com) If you’re talented at graphic arts or have a gift for graffiti, why limit yourself to traditional mediums? Walee (Waldo Lee) doesn’t. He uses the female body as his canvas, putting his design skills toward creating the ultimate art project; one that is carried on the skin of his girlfriends.
The c…
(TrendHunter.com) What you are looking at, my friends, is art. Ok, to the unsophisticated and uncouth (like me) that might just be a whole bunch of burned toasts artist David Reimondo lined up and manipulated to look like whatever he made the stuff look like. And its all cool. The tired cliche says art is in the eyes…
(TrendHunter.com) Interactive art installations allow anybody to create their own artistic manifesto.
Liquid Space 2.1 is an interactive space that uses a software and electronic systems to create a live response when humans interact with it. It was created by Studio Roosegaarde 2.5 and involves human sounds and mot…
(TrendHunter.com) Looking for rich culture but can’t decide between chic Parisian-style art and cuisine, more intense features of a bull fighting city like Barcelona, or the fashions and clubs of LA? Don’t choose any of those. Add some red wine and sweaty tango to your day dream, and you’ve got the pumping beat of Bu…
(TrendHunter.com) Want to offset the environmental damage you do through your trash? One quick and easy way is with one of Urban Outfitters’ wastebaskets of recycled tin cans. The 12″ high bins are protected with rubber bottoms so you don’t have to worry about the eco-chic container scratching your floors. As they’re…
(TrendHunter.com) The practicality of this gadget remains to be seen, but it is an interesting idea. Unlike the traditional fruit bowl or basket, the Fruit Stack stores fruit vertically, allowing it to “breath and ripen without bruising”, claims the the Chiasso website. Obviously, it would take up less space on the k…
(TrendHunter.com) This is another one of those gift ideas for someone who already has “everything”. Buy them their very own space ship! For just $3500 (or best offer), you can give them a truly one-of-a-kind gift. Although it could use some work (the current owner notes that it “[d]oes have a wobble issue at Mach …
(TrendHunter.com) Cybertecture brings you another marvel, The Shuffle Tower in Dubai, set to open in 2010. The tower is a mixed use development designed on the “shuffling” of music on a MP3 player. Set on the Dubai waterfront, the 9-story residential building is part of a combined site of six connected plots.
It win…
(TrendHunter.com) Make sure your prospective client would want to keep your business card on their table rather than in their pocket by giving the gift of green with your contact information! The “Another Bloomin’ Designer†business card by Jamie Wieck treats its recipient to an extra feature you do not expect …
(TrendHunter.com) The Cirbin V13R is reminiscent of a classic hotrod by having just design hints to give lookers a clue. The roadster is powered by a 1250cc Harley-Davidson, linked to a five speed. The incredible fiberglass body is over a tubular chassis that is reinforced for safely. If you want more chrome, the ch…
(TrendHunter.com) If you’ve ever wondered what award-winning interactive architecture looks like, you’re seeing it right now.
The Burble London by Haque Design + Research Ltdd with Seth Garlock and Rolf Pixley is running alongside six other projects in six different genres. The burble is the finalist in the Interac…
(TrendHunter.com) Designer Martino Gamper, who was born in Italy and studied sculpture and product design in Vienna, is one of seven finalists in the Brit Insurance Designs of the Year contest. The art project which resulted in his nomination under the furniture category, is called “100 Chairs in 100 Days.”
Just as…
(TrendHunter.com) Making your house chic and elegant while saving the environment is always good in my book, so I was happy to stumble upon Ryan McElhinney’s site. McElhinney makes artistic yet practical pieces of recycled Toys which are bonded together and then coated in a High Gloss polyurethane lacquer. Each piece…
(TrendHunter.com) The Windy City dyes their river green for St. Patrick’s Day, but that’s not all that goes green. A two mile bridge in the Monroe Harbor will cement Chicago’s position as the Greenest City in the U.S. It will provide space for wind turbines to provide economic value to a recreational source. Chicago …
(TrendHunter.com) This bottle is just as beautiful as it is functional. The space between the walls serves as insulation, keeping the content warm or cool. It’s also microwave safe but not dishwasher safe. That means you have to wash by hand.
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