World of the Future – NVArt: Art Space Competition (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The Complex at the Centre of the Universe won first place in a competition run by CGSociety (Society of Digital Artists) and NVIDIA. The NVArt: Art Space Competition challenged artists from around the world to come up with their own grandiose and awe-inspiring vision of the world.

“The entries are…

Interactive Holograms – AirStrike (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Holograms are an increasingly hot innovation in technology and design. Now we bring you the next step, interactive holograms that you can control and communicate with using hand gestures!

Developed by LM3Labs, AirStrike opens the door to exciting applications in interactive advertising and novelty…

Glass Balloon Animals – Jeff Koons Rooftop Exhibit at the Met (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The Metropolitan Museum of Art is always full of beautiful art exhibits, but one of its most recent is actually ON the Met instead of inside.

Jeff Koons’ sculptures are currently on display on the rooftop of the New York art museum, the world famous Manhattan skyline acting as its backdrop.

The …

Retro Magazine Purses – Momaboma’s Paper Vintage Bags (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Momaboma is an Italian company that creates really beautiful, retro, vintage bags. The bags are made out of paper from recycled glam magazines from the 1950’s and 1960’s and other material such as old vinyl records. The carefully-chosen paper is then processed with resin, polypropylene, vinyl and gl…

Metaphorical Fish Tanks – Infinity Aquarium Symbolizes Life (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Treat your fishes to an über artistic hangout with the Infinity Aquarium which is part of the Forever! Series by BCXSY.

The motivation behind the Forever! series is to slow down and take a closer look at what it means to last FOREVER in this era of mass production and haste.

The hand-crafted glas…

Glowing Walls 2 – OLED Wallpaper from GE

(TrendHunter.com) We’ve seen wallpaper that emits lights before, but it wasn’t as captivating as the OLED wallpaper by General Electric! This opens up a whole new level of modern design, and by the looks of it, these stick on lights wouldn’t be restricted to the walls, but could be applied to any flat surface, like a…

Fashionable Interiors – Karim Rashid Vesna Store (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) One of my favorite designers, Karim Rashid, has designed a unique, out-of-this world interior for the Vesna youth store in Moscow.

The Egyptian designer created artistic shelves, customised wallpaper, racks, and counters with round curves and bright colours to house the over 45,000 items for sale …

Total Design White Out – Porsche Design Goes Bright White (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Porsche Design Studios has long been designing objects inspired by the Porsche automobile, a god in terms of luxury car brands.

Breaking from the traditional use of black for the first time in 30 years, Porsche Design is presenting a collection entirely in white. Porsche Design Studios design objec…

Tranformer Lighting – IQ Light Has 21 Different Looks (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The IQ Light lighting system is based on single interlocking module and choice of assembly pattern. It can be formed to more than 21 different lampshade designs. You can even create your own!

The kit contains 30 modules and is available in five different sizes, modules range in diameter from 12 to …

Pencil Sketch Furniture – Front Studio Shade Project (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) This year’s Milan furniture fair has produced really beautiful work by different design studies, including Front Design Studio. The Swedish company exhibited their “Shade” project at Spazio Rossana Orlandi using standard silhouettes of household items to produce really beautiful paper shading. E…

Ornamental Body Parts – Human Orifice Jewelry (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Taiwanese designer Yuyen Chang makes jewelry that mimics human anatomy. Her “Orifice” collection includes pins, pendants, and rings made with flesh color material and metal and shaped to represent the various shapes and openings of the human body.

The attractive “Orifice” jewelry collection is dec…

You as Medieval Art – Old-Fashioned Portraits by Eyeworks (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The middle ages have had a strong influence on fashion lately, with a lot of collection bearing medieval themes. However, the movement has gone beyond the catwalk and into the home. You can now have a giant, custom Medieval Portrait created for your living room.

Eyeworks Photography is offering hi…

Secret Book Computers – The Future of Books Laptop (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Designer Kyle Bean created a design to demonstrate how technology has changed the way we source information and relate to books. He made a laptop out of a cheap book to create a visual that illustrates the issue.

Yanko Design notes, “The book/laptop, has a CD-Rom drive complete with CD, a keyboard…

Fashion Designers as Saints – Kevin Ledo’s Portraits (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Montreal-based artist Kevin Ledo uses images of world famous fashion icons such as Dior, Calvin Klein, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Prada and Louis Vuitton to draw parallels between modern fashion and Christian art from European medieval times.

Coolhunting notes Ledo does this by, “transposing methods of re…

Fish-Inspired Fashion – Siamese Fighting Fish Dresses at Rodarte (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Seemingly inspired by the complex beauty and graceful movements of exotic fish, Rodarte’s fall/winter 2008 runway show presented stunning ethereal and flowing dresses.

Trendinista did a great job of pairing these layered dresses with the fish that seems to be the source of inspiration.

A superb s…

Humanized Cartoons II – Jessica Rabbit Untooned

(TrendHunter.com) Remember Jessica Rabbit? She is the sultry human cartoon wife of Roger Rabbit in the 1988 Academy-Award winning film Who Framed Roger Rabbit. The movie mixed action with animation to create a marvelous “toon” universe.

Jessica Rabbit was “untooned” and made to look lifelike and the result is prett…

High-Tech Traffic Safety – Hanyoung Lee’s Virtual Wall (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The Virtual Wall conceived by Hanyoung Lee is designed to heighten driver and pedestrian awareness and to encourage both to follow crosswalk rules. The virtual wall which is made of plasma laser beams, shows virtual pedestrians jaywalking and ignoring traffic rules of pedestrian safety.

I am not qu…

Cash Headwear – Davivienda Money Transfer Ads (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) This is a very cute ad from Davivienda Bank from Colombia which seeks to encourage money transfers abroad. I like the use they make of the head coverings. Hats are an important element in many cultures, serving both practical and social purposes. I enjoy the way Davivienda tries to capture the count…

Snarky Greeting Cards – Zeichen Press Tart Messages (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Zeichen Press is a design studio that makes cards for different kinds of occasions using the old, antiquated method of the printing press. Zeichen Press, which uses 100% recyclable paper, does not make cards with the usual saccharine-heavy messages however. Their retro-looking cards offer tart, hila…

Projected Poems – Poem Paviliion Cuts Sunlight into Poetry (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The incredible One Day Poem Pavilion installation by art student Jiyeon Song creatively uses the sun light to display a poem for 8 hours during the day.

The ingeniously crafted installation uses a “complex array of perforations, light passing through the pavilion’s surface produces shifting patte…