Beer-Can Home – A Love Shack for Suds

(TrendHunter.com) Now you know what to do with your beer cans. The creator of this “house”, John Milkovisch, passed away in the 1980’s but the beer can house he created has been designated a public folk art monument.

According to the his son, “He never had less than eight or ten cases stacked up in the garage, and …

Cos-Play to Teach Geek’s English – Tokyo Cosplish School (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) A Tokyo school has just begun teaching an innovative new subject called Cosplish, a hybrid of the words “cos-play” and “English.”

The strange course focuses on three topics which have become increasingly popular among Japanese culture: the English language, manga, and costume-play. It’s centered ar…

Avant-Guard Children Furniture – The P’kolino Klick Puzzle Chair (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) This is some of the cutest kid furniture I have seen. The puzzle design is very attractive and right in sinc with the current trend in furniture design to minimize the space occupied by it. The smart-looking P’kolino Klick line of children furniture combines workspace and a storage place for the k…

Future Dubai Cybertecture – Du Tower

(TrendHunter.com) Some things have to be seen to be believed. This 38 story tower in Dubai is named the Du Tower and will function as a symbol of the young, high-tech telecommunications company, Du.

“This 115-metre tower consists of open plan offices with high-tech provisions allowing flexible usage either by Du or…

Weightlifting with Japanese Dolls – Kokeshi Dumbbell (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Kokeshi are Japanese dolls, handmade from wood, with a simple trunk and an enlarged head with a few thin, painted lines to define the face. The body has a floral design painted in red, black, and sometimes yellow, and covered with a layer of wax. One characteristic of Kokeshi dolls is their lack of …

Ballon Fashion II – Haut Couture with Air

(TrendHunter.com) Generally balloons are associated with children’s parties, and they might even reach artistic constructions and creative design but all people are thinking about is children’s fun. But here we are talking serious business.

The American fashion designers Katie Laibstain, 23, and Steven Jones, 39…

Red Bull HQ – Slide Down to Meetings (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Can you imagine working here? The Red Bull head quarters has a video wall, “floating” stairs or, the best alternative, slides to get down a floor! Check out the pictures. The whole place is designed to encourage interaction. The female contingency must have to wear pants or jeans all the time.

“The…

Face Made of Human Bodies – Who Do You Think You Are Ad

(TrendHunter.com) When looked at from afar, it becomes evident that this image of a face actually consists of photographs of hundreds of naked human bodies that, with their combination of unique shapes and colours.

The clever ad was created for a BBC genealogy TV program which focuses on ancestry, called Who Do You …

Ad Promotes Bullshit – Green Energy Campaign by PG&E;

(TrendHunter.com) I am not sure whether the image is just a creation of the blog owner I took this message from or a copy of the ad the energy company released. Whatever the case, it is a perfect design for a billboard promoting the energy company’s “green” intentions for sustainable energy.

As a matter of fact, i…

Airplane Car – Milner AirCar The New Fly-Drive (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Enter the new fly-drive option for the adventurer – the Milner AirCar is both a airplane and a car blended into a curvaceous smooth finish; in the air it cruises at 200mph and upto 25,000 feet, while on the ground in a chassis not much bigger than your average saloon (after the 28ft wide wings have …

Interactive Fashion Tech Tells Eco Story – Edoc Laundry

(TrendHunter.com) Edoc Laundry, a Seattle based clothing company, is all about encouraging the interactive social experience. By combining fashion and technology mediums, Edoc Laundry creates garments with codes and messages that most people can’t see unless they are searched for thoroughly.

These hidden details a…

Green Creative Interior Design – Alternating Tread Bookcase Stair (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Interior designers are increasignly looking at stairs for a multi-function creative space saving design. Joining the “Library Staircase” we featured a while back is this eco-friendly stairs design that is made of slats of wood bolted together.

The stairs double as a bookcase that saves you space a…

Real Cardboard Building Blocks – Bloxes (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Children love cardboard boxes. It always happens without fail that a kid will play more with the sturdy box than the toy that came in it. Give them a washing machine or refrigerator box and watch out! Now, the inner child in all of us can play with cardboard boxes or even build our homes with them. …

Recycled Pool Balls Jewelry – Eleanor Salazar’s Eco Accessories (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) We all know by now that green is the new black and that engaging in ecologically- and environmentally-friendly behavior as individuals or group entities is the sane thing to do.

Through my short stint as a Trend Hunter, I have been exposed to all kinds of really beautiful objects made from recycled…

Design for the Video-Game Generation – The Slacker (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) You are the 80-90s Nintendo-generation and are entering adult life. Read at least two newspapers a day, work harder, stress more, eat a full-grain diet, sit ergonomically on your scandinavian designed furniture. No more slacking, no more goofing around, game over!

So what if you won on a lottery? …

Life-Size Fairy – Fantasy Statue

(TrendHunter.com) I ran across this item at Alibaba.com in the Gifts & Crafts > Sculptures > Fairies Fantasy Erotic Sexy Statues category. It is a life-size statue of a fairy (or perhaps larger-than-life; I’m not quite sure how big a fairy actually is). I always thought of fairies being small like Tinkerbell. Perhaps…

9 Fine Wine Shrines – Gorgeous Cellars (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Maybe it’s Trendhunter stress, but I’ve been drinking more wine lately. My wine cellar is just a few blocks away, but I’m thinking it would be nice to have a selection right here in the main house. I’ve been perusing other wine cellars and have it narrowed down to these nine. I just need to narrow m…

Preview Your Tattoo in 3-D – Tuvie.com

(TrendHunter.com) Before you commit to that permanent tattoo of your current infatuation, it might be a good idea to get a visual of what the tat will look like once you have it inked on your ass forever until you die or until you have it removed by laser surgery whichever happens first. Loic Zimmerman, a computer gr…

Dynamic RobARTics – Carnegie Mellon’s Snake Robot (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) This is a modular snake robot from Biorobotics Lab, Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. The robot wiggles around, twists, turns, climbs walls and flight of stairs, swims and does a host of other things that other conventional legged or wheeled robots cannot do.

What I am not sure about i…

Wooden Orb Mouse – Jupiter PC Mouse (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) The Jupiter PC mouse is hand-made in Japan’s Gunma Prefecture located in the northwest corner of the Kantō region on HonshÅ« island. The spheric mouse also comes in a stainless steel version for Mac users that can be blinged out if that’s the way you prefer to roll.

When I first saw this spheric g…