Category: Industrial Design

Family welfare comes first and culinary education of children is a very important step towards a normal life full of achievements and with less health problems. To include healthy foods in the diet of a child, regardless of age, is an eternal struggle for parents, especially since there are many unhealthy attractions all around. Kids are reserved to change, especially when it comes to tastes that don’t agree, that’s why most of the time it’s not easy to convince them to say no to candies and pick fruits and vegetables that contains tones of vitamins and minerals.

As a balanced and responsible parents we try as much as we can to apply and transmit to our children the basic food principles of a healthy eating, but in most of the cases our creativity and ingenuity in preparing their meals seems to work every time. Here’s what was thinking a Turkish designer regarding this topic. Fatih Can Sarıöz teamed up with Dilfer Nasır and imagined a cute automatic spray that spreads different kind of fruit scents in your kids’ room.

Meet “Whiff” who promotes a healthy diet on children through its clever and playful design. The automatic spray features a digital control panel that allows you to select different times to spray various kind of fruit scents, that besides the fresh smell it spreads in the entire room, acts as a remind for kids to eat more fruits. By smelling the natural and flavoured smells of the fruits, “Whiff” makes chidren crave for their good taste and stimulate them to eat. Its lovely and attractive appearance notifies them when it’s time to eat fruits through colorful lights from the base.

 Photos © Fatih Can Sarıöz

We run across Japanese designer Mac Funamizu‘s portfolio with amazingly cool designs that fascinate us and captivate our attention. One of his design concepts is a futuristic approach of the very popular microwave oven, which we use nowadays in our kitchens. We’re sure that most of you are familiar with microwave oven principles, what features have and how it looks like. In fact, they are pretty much the same in terms of design, there are small differences according to the manufacturer: a rectangular box with a transparent glass door which allows you to see inside it, and a digital control panel with various settings to heat or reheat quickly and efficiently your favourite dishes.

But one thing that don’t accomplish these devices is that they cannot show you for example how long the food should be cooked and how it will look like after heating it. Starting from this idea, Mac Funamizu envisioned a new take on the design of conventional microwave ovens, that probably will become reality in a not so far future. Inspired by a dome tray when he was watching Ratatouille, his futuristic microwave oven concept doesn’t look at all with what we know already. At first sight it resembles a modern free-standing lamp, but in fact it’s all about a mobile microwave oven with cutting-edge technology.

A circular shape standing on a tall base offers a new and improved sensory experience: it helps you overheat or burn your prepared food by telling you the period of time it should be cooked and by literally showing you what the food will be like after cooking. Just put the dish in it and the digital display will show you how will look like, allowing you in the same time to adjust the “appearance” by simply dragging the button. Moreover, it won’t be necessary anymore to get up from the table because this cool microwave oven could get close to the table every time you’ll need it. Very appealing, isn’t it? What would you say about such concept?

 Photos © Mac Funamizu

Smartphones are very resistant to different shocks, but nobody likes to have scratched or cracked phones, right? A protective case is the best thing we can have to enjoy their features and in the same time to extend their lives to a longer period. Whether you want to highlight even better the phone’s design, to personalize it, to protect it or all in the same time, there is a huge variaty of models on the market to choose from, according to smartphone size and shape.

For those of you who own an iPhone 4 or iPhone 4S, we found a really interesting and eye-catching design which allows you to play games, watch videos and take pictures with ease without worring too much for your smartphone’s safety. Unlike other similar products, “Hand Strap Case”  ensures greater comfort in use and prevents accidental drops thanks to an integrated elastic strap system created especially to fit nicely the user’s fingers.

This idea came to designer Haijun Feng when he thought how to improve our everyday experience with iPhone by helping us to use one hand for handling it. In other words, using the “Hand Strap Case” the user will be able to perform multiple tasks on his mobile device with only one hand while he is carrying a bag, walking or waiting the bus or the subway. In this way, the iPhone will be very easy to be held steady on the palm of the hand and you can browse internet, email to your friends and other stuff without any stress. It comes in four trendy colours (rose, blue, orange black).

Photos © Senre Design

Diana Dumitrescu is a young industrial designer from Romania we recently discovered and whose interesting projects grab our attention in a very pleasant way. With a passion for product design, Diana likes to experiment the edges of what’s possible or accepted in design, and creates awesome and futuristic design concepts. For example, she came up with a cool idea on how should look like the well known blood pressure system we all use on a regular basis to monitor our health.

Generally speaking, few medical accessories make you feel comfortable and give you a friendly-feeling, so talking about their designs is practically useless because in a way or another they all look quite the same. That’s why we loved Diana Dumitrescu’s wireless blood pressure system and wanted to share with you guys some photos with it. Although it’s just a concept made for a client, who knows, maybe in a not so far future, will be more than just a good-looking health gadget. Hi.LO combines the basic principles of the blood pressure measuring system with smartphone technology in one modern device that anyone can use.

It consists of a blood pressure bracelet wired to a smartphone, along with a free Hi.LO app, which users will run on their chosen device to measure their systolic and diastolic blood pressure and heart rate. All you have to do is to install the app on your smartphone, attach the bracelet on your brachial (arm) artery and wait for the wireless connection. With a modern, sleek design and a variaty of appealing colors, Hi.LO is a attractive  blood pressure system, which comes to replace the ordinary ones you are familiar with. The interesting thing and fun in the same time is that, it does not look at all like a medical device which makes users get rid of stress and fear very often associated with such kind of accessories.

Photos source @behance.net

Making ordinary products extraordinary, both in function and form, industrial designer Robert Bronwasser from Smool thought to give a new and appealing design of the TV exterior that hasn’t evolve too much in the past twenty years and came up with an interesting product concept called  “Homedia”, which practically will dress your TV set in fabric, transforming it from a simple object with an unispiring form into a distinctive décor element that adapts to your home interior design.

In this way, colorful and with minimalist design, the TV set will becomes personal, having its own unique character, adding personality and intimacy to any room. Very original concept, what do you think about?

Photos © SMOOL

Warm weather and the freshness and vibrancy of all kind of colorful flowers and leafy plants are evidence that the cold winter season is already a distant memory. Spring is in the air and it’s time to celebrate it by changing your patio or garden decor with new attractive flowerpots and planters. If you’re among those who appreciate originality and style, you are probably looking for plant containers that have an unconventional look or impress by some distinctive features.

Well, we find these appealing concrete flowerpots designed by Ukrainian industrial designer Julia Kononenko, that help you cultivate some personality indoors this spring.  What makes them special and different from other standard pots is that they are covered with a special marble chips, which collects sunlight during the day and releases it at night, so they acts as a garden lamp as well.  Their simple yet eye-catching concrete design will surely stand out and will create an image of sculptural composition at your landscape site.

Photos © Andrew Lyhushyn

Looking for an alternative to your traditional lamp?  Meet Lumio, a book-shaped awesome lamp that grab your attention from the moment you see it. Simplicity and ingenuity are the words that describes this great project envisioned by architect Max Gunawan, whose goal is to give people the freedom to experience beautiful lighting wherever they are. With a minimalist yet poetic design aesthetic, Lumio is a modern lamp that combines the ease of using portable lighting with the performance of a high-end permanent light fixture.

500 lumens of light, that interestingly hide inside the cover of a 2.5cm thick book, are waiting to reveal you in a multitude of eye-catching shapes for many different functions: as table lamp, wall sconce, ceiling pendant, task lighting, outdoor lighting, accent light, emergency light, etc. Practically, you have everything you want into one single product. Isn’t just amazing? Its sculptural and versatile form makes even a great center piece, while creating a nice ambient glow. It’s stylishly compact design featuring built-in super strong magnets and the possibility to easily charge it via USB charger or micro USB from your computer, make from Lumio a great companion when you’re on the go, which meets almost any lighting needs you may have throughout the day.

It’s intuitive and very easy to use: just find metal surfaces and open its wood covers and its “pages” emit a high quality LED lighting  that increase and decrease in intensity by adjusting the angle of its flexible and durable spine. The lights turns off automatically when you close it. You can use Lumio continuously for 8 hours on a full-charge thanks to its rechargeable lithium ion battery. Committed to quality and sustainability, the lamp is made of a combination of eco-friendly materials: marine-grade FSC certified wood for the covers in 3 finish options – dark walnut, warm cherry and blonde maple,  100% recyclable, water resistant Tyvek for its body and economical high output LED which is slightly brighter than 40w bulb. See how Lumio works and how many outstanding configurations you can create with it from the video at the end of this post.

 Photos © Max Gunawan

Discover Max Gunawan’s smart and innovative lighting solution

We love creative designs! This splendid collection of lamps entitled “Living Pixels” is a very interesting design project envisioned by Hong Kong -based group of designers from SDWorks (Chan Wan Ki Kay, Chen Siu Wa Shai Chai, and Suen Ka Hei Catherine) that rank high in originality, as well as in functionality. They were certainly looking for less ordinary approaches when starting this project if we think that recycled advertising banners are the material used to create these appealing, colorful volumes of light and texture.

To give that unique  three-dimensionality to the material and to build that cloud-looking perfect irregular shapes, the designers took the right advertising banners that were printed on only one side and cut them into small pieces and then combined them to design each light shade individually. They sort out matching colors and sew each banner swatches by hand, creating a balloon of multi-colored light that emerges from the inside and generates a vivid luminous pattern through holes left intentionally with this purpose. When the lights are off, they look white and maybe not so attractive, but switch them on and you’ll see a spectacular play of colors that bring magic and create a pleasant atmosphere in your room due to the fact that each element of these lampshades patchwork allow differences in light shade. The lampshades are attached to vintage lamp stands and feature low-energy-consuming lightbulbs.