Ursula Maier designed an illuminating piece of lavish furniture decorating your home, office and even public settings. The Laptop Tower is a multipurpose compact standing desk, measuring 1187×494×494 mm, which offers you a place to work and read with such a design factor that minimizes your fatigue. You can work either standing or leaning on this space-saving modular furniture
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Standing workstation lets you work ergonomically in cramped spaces
The reflective path may have missed the top spot at international competition of “mirador del palmeral de elche” (Spain) by a whisker, but the runner-up project by Japanese architectural firm SANAA has everything to take you by wonder. Intending toward enhancing the palm groves of Elche, a UNESCO world heritage site, in the lines of the agricultural palm Arabic tradition, the reflective path ripples through the palm trees and spirals up into the sky, which presents a breathtaking view of the palmeral and the Valencia City to the visitors from 64m up in the sky
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SANAA’s viewpoint of the palm groves of Elche
I have earlier mentioned a mirror that doubles as an ironing board and now Seura has designed a hi-tech mirror that doubles as a television. The “One” TV mirror offers you a 19′ high definition LCD television embedded in up to a 45×36 inch mirror. Measuring 1″ in thickness, this technically enhanced television mirror features 16:9 widescreen ratio with resolution of up to 1080p and also supports HDMI input, ATSC/NTSC tuner and PC input, together with 25 watt speaker and a waterproof remote control
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The One television mirror adds value to your bathroom
Inspired by the long range of products using solar energy, the “UVonion” by Yun Li is an onion shaped solar ultraviolet lamp that lightens up your surroundings and saves tremendous amount of energy. UVonion, though appears to be collecting the solar ultraviolet rays during the day time and emitting them at night, sanitizing your home from dangers of ultraviolet, but in actual, it converts solar energy into electrical energy using solar cells and in turn produces UV light powered by ultraviolet LED.
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Opt for green electricity with UVonion
Designed by Rachael Stefanussen , a third year Industrial Design student at the University of Cincinnati: “The goal of the project is to develop the next generation packaging and point-of-purchase display for Basil Hayden’s Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey. The redesign must preserve the values and personality characteristic of the Basil Hayden brand identity while encouraging an increase in sale and popularity. The redesign must not only do justice to the heritage of bourbon as a drink, but also celebrate the delicate, refined characteristics that are unique to Basil Hayden’s
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Student Spotlight: Basil Hayden’s Whiskey
Hand washing is a simple procedure to prevent the spread of germs and to avoid getting sick. Since we have to wash our hands before we eat, prepare a meal and after using the restroom, designer Mario Rubio has designed a hand sanitizing washing unit for up to four people, making it easier to place in public settings like hospitals, restaurants, kitchens, malls, schools and public restrooms
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HAND-SANTI hand sterilizer uses UV rays to kill germs
Probably drawing inspiration from the shell of turtles, Argentine designer Marcos Madia has come up with a futuristic vehicle for Michelin that would protect commuters as well as pedestrians by absorbing the fierce impacts, in the case of an accident. The “CAPARAZON,” as the designer calls the vehicle, is a car that doesn’t rely on electronics, as the propulsion is given by four in-wheel electric motors, which draw energy from batteries located in the base of the car. Finished with a flexible material developed by Michelin, which has different levels of density as it gets near to the center, the vehicle would absorb the deformation of possible impacts.
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Michelin CAPARAZON concept doesn’t rely entirely on electronics
Winning entry at the Zero Boundaries Zink Product Design Competition, in the “Futures” category, the “Mini Giant” by designer Paula Adina Sumalan is a robotic printer that lets you print a large format poster with a portable gadget that literally fits in your palm or a side pocket of your backpack. Employing “inkless printing” technology of Zink, the portable printer self-propels itself over a sheet of Zink paper of any size to take a print, without the need for ink cartridges or ribbons
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Mini Giant crawling printer allows printing on the go
After making a couple of pieces from my collection into wallpaper for my computer I thought it might be nice to make more and to share. Morphy Richards Astral Refrigerator 1024 x 768 1280 x 800 1280 x 1024 1440 x 900 1680 x 1050 1920 x 1200 iphone Polish Zwiedzajcie Zoo Matchbox Label 1024 x 768 1280 x 800 1280 x 1024 1440 x 900 1680 x 1050 1920 x 1200 iphone Japanese Street Map Matchbox Label 1024 x 768 1280 x 800 1280 x 1024 1440 x 900 1680 x 1050 1920 x 1200 iphone Marshall & Snelgrove Department Store Hat Box 1024 x 768 1280 x 800 1280 x 1024 1440 x 900 1680 x 1050 1920 x 1200 iphone Beethoven Penguin Score Book Cover 1024 x 768 1280 x 800 1280 x 1024 1440 x 900 1680 x 1050 1920 x 1200 iphone Christmas Wrapping Paper 1024 x 768 1280 x 800 1280 x 1024 1440 x 900 1680 x 1050 1920 x 1200 iphone Polish Electrical Matchbox Label 1024 x 768 1280 x 800 1280 x 1024 1440 x 900 1680 x 1050 1920 x 1200 iphone
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Free Vintage Desktop Wallpaper
Vintage Balloons Vintage Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade photographs (via notcot.org ). The Desktop Wallpaper Project Bobby Solomon of Kitsune Noir shares desktops that his favourite designers have made for the project Tin Tabernacles I loved looking through these photographs but kicking myself for not photographing a lovely corrugated iron church on Isle of Arran last year. (via I Like ) Disassembled Household Appliances These photographs are strangely satisfying (via Douglas Wilson ) Cetebe – beautiful polish sewing cotton labels More great Polish ephemera and design from PanTuNieStał Polaroid SX-70 Ad Fantastic Polaroid Ad by Charles and Ray Eames (via The Mid-Century Modernist )
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Links – February 2009