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Emily from OrangeBeautiful sent in this packaging for their Lattice Line of letterpress cards: “Since a lot of the greeting card packaging tends to be soft-fold clear plastic boxes, our letterpress-printed, die-cut paper boxes seem to be standing out in the market. They’re both a better-looking box for merchandising, and a more eco-conscious way of packaging due to the materials & production used AND the fact that customers can keep their cards in the box rather than tossing the packaging once they’ve gotten the product home!” See a few more after the jump.

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Designer Miki has created a 2-in-1 electric blower that doubles as a vacuum cleaner. This technologically advanced product features a specialized general motor that provides dual functioning of blowing and vacuuming just at a switch from one operation to another. It comes with a removable front cover for cleaning the fan to facilitate its working for a longer time

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Urinated walls are a common phenomena causing trouble for municipal corporations in maintaining hygiene in almost all the towns and cities across the world. Addressing the issue, Mexican designer Miguel Melgarejo has come up with a public urinal concept dubbed “Axixa” (urine in Nahuatl) that will help in maintaining the cleanliness in the streets. Featuring the shape that a leak leaves in a wall, the public ceramic urinal generates a permanent mark in public streets or places where people can urinate and participate in a manifestation in which the disposal itself becomes part of the public life.

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Axixa, a hygienic way of pissing on the walls

A highly technical and multifunctional cash counter, the “OLIMP,” has been designed exclusively for the supermarkets to provide better and efficient service to the customers. This design facilitates well synchronized treatment of various purchases of customers. Overcoming the difficulty of congestion emerging at cash counter in huge supermarkets, this cash box provides for number of accessories like a shelf for the basket, protection of the scanner, protection of the cash machine, separate purchases and table for packing your purchase

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OLIMP adds convenience to your shopping in supermarkets

Inspired by designer Vivienne Tam’s elegant and dazzling red colored, tight-fitted collection for women, Kitman Keung has designed a sumptuous MP3 player, dubbed as “Tam Walkman” exclusively for Tam’s elite female clients. This splendid design is a lavish blend of technology and fashion. This sleek device, with organic fluidity of lines, symbolizing that of a woman’s body, has a remarkably graceful crimson appearance

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Tam Walkman redefines technology in terms of elegance and glamor

A joint venture of Platune, an American company, and Sand-X, a Swiss company specializing in off-road vehicles, the Platune Sand-X Bike is a modified version of a snowmobile to be used in a desert or sandy terrain. Replacing the skis of snowmobile with a set of wheels upfront, the sand bike locates the radiator, protected by a custom designed set of bull bars, in front of the vehicle. Generating power from a Rotax 800 cc, 2-cylinder, 2-stroke engine, capable of producing 160 horsepower, the Platune Sand-X can reach 60 mph in just 2.8 seconds with top speed of 115 mph

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Platune Sand-X Bike, bringing snowmobiles to the desert

John Brabham has combined the utility of a table, a stand and a drawer in one unit. The multifunctional “1FORMTABLE” is designed beautifully, out of corian, to serve three functions at a time. The stylish and well designed table provides for a plane surface for placing snacks and drinks with two curved surfaces beneath it.

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1FORMTABLE goes beyond its name, does three jobs

Devised for a golf buggy design competition, organized by Callaway Golf, the “Soft Buggy” by Australian designer Hamit Kanuni Kuralkan is a next generation buggy that touts a highly conceptual design. Designed to finish with highly advanced materials, including dielectric elastomer and titanium nickel alloy, the Soft Buggy adapts the landscape to allow better stability around the golf course

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Soft Buggy modern caddy for retro golfers outshines older buggies

Conceived around the need for multipurpose furniture, the Trans-I-Ant by Canadian designer Bruce Logan is a furniture concept for kitchen/bar-top and dining areas of an urban residence. For the most part, these areas are not used at the same time, so why have furniture lying around taking up valuable space, when they are not simultaneously needed

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Trans-I-Ant multipurpose furniture is a space-saving option

Inspired by a variety of sources, from flying saucers to retro cars, designer Thomas Pastor has devised a futuristic car that smartly amalgamates the characteristics of a sports car with the elegance and comfort of luxury vehicles. The “H Car,” as the designer calls the concept car, generates power from electric batteries and hydrogen cells.

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Hydrogen-electric hybrid H Car integrates windmills in the wheels

With new strides in technology, modern gadgets are turning into a health manager for the owners. Last week we covered Stix cellphone that burns the fats of the users to remain juiced up, and today we came across yet another gadget that harnesses your run for clean energy. Entitled “Cargador De Celular,” the eco-friendly concept by industrial designer Lola Mensa attaches to your shoes to produce renewable energy, thanks to the integrated Nanogenerator system, that convert kinetic energy into usable electricity to be further stored in onboard batteries.

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Cargador De Celular device harnesses energy from your run

  One more wine design, this comes from Angeline Oey a visual communication student at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle: “This project is a rebrand and redesign project for two of the Duck Pond Winery product lines. The demographic is narrowed to the 21-30 years old. While keeping the duck illustrations as their consistent design element, I rename their product lines: “Bufflehead” for their red wine and “Harlequin” for their white wine.

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Student Spotlight: Duck Pond Winery

Winner of The Young Designer’s Prize, Kitman Keung, teaming up with the technology brand Oregon Scientific, has come up with a cordless phone that featuring a simple yet sleek design is gonna be a trendy add-on for modern working or living spaces. Hailed as “Orefon,” the flagship product of Oregon Scientific’s cordless phone line embeds icons subtly into keypad to offer an inimitable look and feel to the users.

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OREFON cordless phone gives most gaudy cellpones a run for their money

Designed by UK based  Here Design : “We’ve recently finished a redesign of The Balvenie whisky, which involved working with a lot of great UK craftsmen to make sure the design embodied the respect that the company holds for it’s own craftsmen that make the whisky. Because the distillery was set up in 1892, we also wanted the design to be a true reflection of late 19th Century archival documents so it was important that each element of the design was limited by the printing processes of that period.” Check out shots of the letterpress and woodcuts after the jump.

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Balvenie Whisky

Day to day life can be so chaotic that it helps to take a step back and return yourself to a state where you are removed from the outside world. Drawing inspiration from childbirth and the calmness and security within the womb, British designer Ben Mazur has come up with a unique bathtub called “Swaybath,” which is filled from the drenching showerhead above the tub, and emptied through a valve in the bottom into a drain below. The calming, gentle movement of the water and subtle swaying, turning motion combined with the embrace of the silicone tub as it molds around you to create a placental hideaway from the outside world

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Swaybath bathtub alters according to a person’s size

You may have seen some of the most environment friendly structures around the world, but the “Arbo-architecture” by a bunch of young German architects, including Oliver Storz, Ferdinand Ludwig and Hannes Schwertfeger, is what you may call green from the core, for the structure is constructed with self grown natural or living trees. Growing the trees around a conventional support structure, which you may remove after the trees grows stronger, the Arbo-architecture (or botany building) grafts young willow trees, from trunk to top, to support the structure

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Arbo-architecture: Grow your own home

Yesterday we covered the Unique Autosports pool table, and I was wondering what would be the perfect lighting for the pool table by Hurricane Custom Billiards. Taking a break from tradition, the “Motorcycle Pool Table Light” from Meyda Tiffany seems to be an ideal match for the iconic pool table.

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I have to admit, one of my fantasy design jobs would be to design a series of wine labels. There’s the challenge of designing for a small area, there’s a certain austerity and sense of history surrounding wine-making, and it’s also a product I’m always interested in sampling. Wine labels were found on jars of wine in the tomb of Tutankhamun in Egypt, who died in 1352 B.C.

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Offline Design Inspiration: Wine Labels (Hic!)

The Lotus Lamps by Chris Carter are the outcome of thorough research work and investigation of the market, existing products and upcoming technology. These exotic colorful lamps provide a means of relaxation, substituting the use of candles in the bathroom. Serving safety while bathing, powered by battery, these illuminating lamps can be used in or out of the water

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Lotus Lamps relieve you while bathing

Sponsored by Vestel, the “Obsidian” by a bunch of designers, including Deniz Altuntaş, Gamze Ekin, Başak Haznedaroğlu and Can Mehmet Uyanik from Middle East Technical University, is a multi-media screen that works via internet connection. Users can watch TV, listen to music and make conference calls with it. The Obsidian can simultaneously be used for different purposes, while one user listens to music, the other may watch TV or make a conference call.

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Obsidian unfolds for a multi-media screen