(TrendHunter.com) Bogota, Columbia has seen a trend progress in the nightlife, cultural, art and alternative scenes. The electro-kitsch subculture has been irrigating around the country, and more events spring up daily to feed this unique sub-culture. The universal and the “local” have combined to add a surface to a …
(TrendHunter.com) Functional use of space for meetings, workspace and storage that manages to separate but maintains a feel of connection between the spaces. The design is meant to make you think of hanging cloth or waves. You move between each work space by stepping over the lowest points of the divider. Might be ro…
(TrendHunter.com) We all want art that does something more than just hang there, right? We’re used to multi-tasking, so why should art get away with just hanging around. Oscar Diaz made these artworks that change as the ink bleeds onto the paper. It’s still art because you don’t control the speed or final outcome, th…
(TrendHunter.com) Sushi, the famous Japanese dish from decorative fresh fish products, has not only to be superb of taste, but it has to be much more. It has to appeal as much to the eye as to the palate. It has to be fresh, perfect of taste and please the eye.
For the Danish restaurant chain “Sticks ‘n’ Sushi”…
(TrendHunter.com) “Captivating” is probably the best word to describe the RetroVelo bicycles from Germany.
RetroVelo has launched an entire lifestyle for bicyclists. One club motto is, “We promise nothing and deliver.” One fan said he had never had an urge to party with the makers of any product until he met the R…
(TrendHunter.com) Dutch architect and designer Reinier de Jong designed an object that functions as a chair, a lounger and a stool.
In Dutch, ‘keer’ means to multiply and turn. This word fits perfectly as a name for this object since, if you turn this chair around, you get a lounge chair. Turn it one more time an…
(TrendHunter.com) Have a knitter in the family looking for some fun money? Have them get into the chair knitting biz. The In-the-Round Chair gets is name from knitting socks or sleeves without a stitch. It’s a fairly easy technique, but the payoff is high. Thirty feet of sleeve is required for a chair like this.
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(TrendHunter.com) This is yet another great concept by Sony. Compare to Nokia’s Ngage, its unique design is much more superior (no offense to Nokia). Just take a look at their recent patent filing and it will show you the integration of mobile phone with the PSP.
When the gadget is in its phone manner, all you ha…
(TrendHunter.com) This bridge-inspired bicycle frame was handmade from cable and carbon fiber rods connected with epoxy resin. It took engineer, Brano Meres, 300 hours to complete his “C-Thru Road Frame”. All in all, it took about an hour per joint – wrapping carbon fibers around each one to ensure their strength. Th…
(TrendHunter.com) As the final part in our Bling Bling Boring series, we bring you a list of the most random things adorned with crystals, gems and diamonds.
The list has such a diverse range of items, it was impossible to create individual categories. There’s everything from jewel encrusted bugs to toilet paper di…
(TrendHunter.com) We didn’t start the fire, it was in the table, since Cain and Able. Some very cool firepits for inside your abode. Planika Fires use biofuel called Fanola so the fire doesn’t have any smoke or smell. Only water vapor and CO2 equivalent to what humans exhale. Whew. What great fun this would be – and …
(TrendHunter.com) The brilliant bit.fall by Julius Popp –which is currently featured at the Design and the Elastic Mind exhibition in the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2008– is a metaphor for the incessant flood of information we are exposed to. bit.fall artistically reveals internet-based information generated b…
(TrendHunter.com) Ever wonder why microwave designs have remained constant through the years? I have. Big. Rectangular. Bulky. I suppose it had something to do with the mechanics of how a microwave works. Perhaps technology can overcome these mechanics and help turn the But-On Koncept into a reality. Here is a circul…
(TrendHunter.com) The beautiful Endless Nile table by famous multi-talented designer Karim Rashid takes its inspiration from the slow and perpetual flow of the Nile river. The new design combines the inspiration by the past with a futuristic deconstruction of conventional table and seating concepts resulting in an or…
(TrendHunter.com) Alice Wang is one of my favourite concept artists. Everything she does is interesting and thought provoking. This also is the case with her newest project, that is called Asimov’s First Law.
Let’s talk about artificial intelligence. Let’s talk about how machines could harm us. Let’s talk ab…
(TrendHunter.com) ‘The End of an Era’ by Ian Burns is a chandelier of sixteen small monitors hanging from the ceiling, all displaying a live-feed image of a light bulb created by the “perversely archaic method of a camera obscura.” By focusing on the ubiquity of the screen and our ever-more sedentary relationshi…
(TrendHunter.com) I love this project by the artist Sighn. The project features hand-crafted “Its OK” pieces. For each piece sold, a tree will be planted (in cooperation with Arbor Day Foundation). The interesting part is that the project has a “limited” edition of 1 Million pieces! That’s one million new trees. How …
(TrendHunter.com) In wasn’t that long ago that people would go days if not weeks without a formal bath. Now, a person can take a super shower in a computer-controlled, 18 head water nirvana. Not just any person, however, as the price tag is a steep $100,000. For those that can afford it, the Silver TAG shower may be …
(TrendHunter.com) Subject to fetish, seen as a necessary nuisance, a protection, a manifestation of female beauty and seduction, or of pure aesthetics, the bra is an extremely important piece in the feminine world.
During the sixties of the last century women threw their bra’s in any fire available during this per…
(TrendHunter.com) Take a break from complicated advanced technology with this fun free pinhole camera! Download, print and build your own beautiful pinhole camera, designed exclusively with Corbis images and illustrations. And it works! Designs include Peyote, Photos Of Your Mother, Dr. Livingstone, Astrocam and Pabl…
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