Literal Design

What happens when a product is designed by its name?

A Chair.

Yup, one can easily see that the above is a “Chair”.

Quite literally, the letters C H A I R are spelled out and placed side by side.

What makes this design interesting, is after what happens after you assemble the pieces together.

Ta daa! It looks and behaves like a real chair upon being assembled.

While there might be certain issues pertaining to the comfortableness and practicality of the chair itself,

the idea of using the name of the object to build the object is refreshing and certainly brings a whole new perspective

to design itself.

Well whats next? A “Television” Television? Designs hold no boundaries~

Grandpa’s Rocking Chair, not.

The standard, old fashioned rocking chair that every household back in your grandparents’ time should definitely have.

Once again, designers of our time have taken the the standard boring design of a rocking chair, and turn it into something cool and stylish, yet maintaining the basic concept in which the rocking chair is built on.

Behold.

The near circular form seen from the side is what makes the design unique.

It allows for the rocking motion without being an attachment, but instead flowing into the rest of the chair.

Furthermore, there is a light source on the top of the chair which can be used as reading light.

While I have some questions with regards to the comfortableness of the rocking chair itself, due to the seemingly small seating and back support area, I have to admit that this rocking chair definitely makes me want to jump on it and rock my way on~

Style meets Time

Watches designers have been pushing their designs to the maximum, from the old school rotating-hands-clock watch to digital display watch.

However, these designers have been trying to find a new way to display time in the coolest yet fashionable way in order to capture the hearts of our youths.

One such innovative design would be this:

Swatch’s TIME ORBIT WATCH.

Design-wise it is clear why the watch is one of the top innovations of its kind.

“Those three lines are rotating around the watch and show the time, while the seconds line is going around all the time.”

The concept is simple, yet the design presents itself in an attractive and eye-catching manner.

Furthermore, touch-screen lovers will definitely love the fact that adjusting the time on the watch is by simply done by touching and adjusting the timeline.

With the improvements in technology as time passes by, I’m sure watch-lovers can look forward to even more innovative and refreshing watch designs in the future.

Interesting Vase

Vases come in all shapes and sizes, suitable for all kinds of flowers display, be it outdoors display or to display it in the household.

Personally I haven seen quite a number of vase designs, being in a household that has a bunch of plants/flowers growing out there at my corridor (:

This design, however, caught my eyes and it shows how simple yet versatile a vase can be.

This new kind of vase is the ideal design for the households going for that slick and clean look.

“A set of four glass tubes with a magnetic base that can tilt and slant on whim! Put in long stems of gorgeous blooms and play with the setting.”

Simply by using glass tubes, one can tilt and arrange the stems of the flowers in anyway the user likes, without fear of the small vases falling down due to its magnetic base.

It creates a kind of a special touch to your household with the use of this ‘vase’. However there might be a problem when using this as there is a limit to the number of flowers/stems one can fit in to each vase, but does it really matter when it beautifies your household nicely?

Yet another cup!

As said in my previous posts, there are lots of cup designs out there that either try to redefine the way we use cups, or to improve our experience when handling with cups.

For this cup in particular, I feel that the concept and idea is very refreshing and ideal for usage during tea breaks in the office.

The ideal teabreak cup!

While the design of the handles and the shape of the cup isnt actually very refreshing or inspiring, the additional compartment of the cup which allows it to store cookies/biscuits is actually very interesting.

On closer observations, I feel that there will be some kind of problems present in the design of the cup.

One would be how to carry the cup around without having the biscuits to fall out. I think it would be more appropriate if there were to be some sort of latch mechanism present in the compartment of the cup to prevent biscuits from falling out when carrying it.

Also, I haven a worry about the design of the cup in terms of the umber of biscuits able to store in the cup at once. It seems like the most it would be 3-4 number of biscuits at each time, which might not be enough. Additionally, the other biscuits might be squarish shaped, and thus not exactly suitable for this cup to contain.

With improvements in various aspects like mentioned above, I believe this cup can help working people better!

Cups.

Cups cups cups.

They are the most common objects you see in every household out there, since everyone

needs cups in oder to contain water to drink from.

With the mention of cups, there are tons and tons of designs out there that either try to redefine the way we use them, or help us use the cups better. not to mention there are quite a number of cups out there with very cute and quirky designs that attract people to buy them.

Well, heres another one that I find to be rather useful. A cup that improves our grip on them.

A creative, yet at the same time straightforward design that helps people improve their grip on cups. No longer there is a need for cups to have handles and rubber-ish grips in order for us to hold on to them better.

What better way then to have the imprint of a palm on the cup itself? Just by simply following the pattern on the cup itself, it should be easier to users to carry the cup around.

However, there seem to be some design problems I observed with this cup. First of all, I am not too sure about the cup fitting every single size of hand, meaning people with larger hands might not be able to carry the cup that well compared to someone with a smaller hand. In addition, the amount of liquid it can carry seems to be rather small as well. If you are very thirsty and would like to gulp down one huge portion of water, this cup might not be suitable for you as it might not be able to carry a big amount of water compared to other cups/mugs out there.

Overall it is still a pretty cool design of a cup though, I think. (:

To-do Lists redefined.

When you have to go out grocery shopping, or shopping for necessities, you know it is always important to keep a to-do list on hand so that you do not forget what to buy.

But more then often, it is a hassle to carry the list around, be it in the form of paper note tucked in the wallet or digitally written in your phone/ipod.

There is never an easy way to refer to the list quickly and efficiently without opening your wallet and checking your device. Nevertheless, there is a product that helps in this!

The To-Do Tattoo! with this product, there is never an easier way to check your list of items to buy. Simply just write it on the tattoo and then you can proceed to paste it on the hand for easy reference.

I have to admit that this idea and design is pretty refreshing and new. There are always better methods to do simple everyday stuffs, and this is precisely one of them – to cut short the hassle of referring to the to-do lists when shopping.

Easy Peezy.

Leaving messages in the morning..

has never been easier!

There is no longer a need for people to write post it notes on the refrigators and boards in order to remind themselves about a important event!~

With this adorable looking toaster, one can now customize personal messages onto the toast just by simply writing the message on a special “white board”~

Message written on would be ‘toasted’ onto the toast itself.

Well, even though this handy toaster is pretty effective in bringing a new way to leave messages, there are also some known inconveniences when using it.

Firstly, from the design, it seems that it needs to use bread of a certain thickness in order for the ‘imprint’ to work, which means the standard loaves of bread that we have at home might no be suitable for its use.

Also, it seems that the toaster can only toast up to one piece of bread each single time, which might be a hassle if you have a bunch of messages to leave, meaning that you will actually have to toast several times.

and Finally, there might be a bunch of safety issues with regards to the design as there seems to be no handle on the trap to get the bread out, which means that there is a risk of getting your fingers burnt while trying to handle the toaster around.

but hey afterall, if this is just the first step towards achieving ‘leaving messages on toast’, then i am pretty sure there will be greater and better designs of the same concept in the future.

Looking forward to improvements on the current design if it is to be used widely across the world~

for the old guys and the new.

Remember back in the years where everyone carried a large Walkman around and THATS considered cool? Well yeah, portable disc players were the thing during that time – “You know you are cool when you have a Walkman”. Nowadays everyone simply carry an Ipod around. Whatever happened to Walkman?

For those still stucked in that era of portable discs, theres always this.

“Compared to traditional music players, this Dual Music Player is different. It is a portable solution that supports both CDs and Flash-memory.”

The perfect solution for those old guys who prefer listening to CDs.

“You can listen to MP3s stored on your Flash-drive and copy music via USB while once you need to play your old CDs you can simply open both sides and let the player do the rest.”

This player is amazing. both functions in one. Using latest technology to create something that the past and present will both enjoy. I love how I can just open it up and slot the disc in~

Observing the design, I like how small and long the design is for us to grab it easily. The buttons placements are also easy to press and not too cluttered up.

This is what most designs lack nowadays. Moving forward, totally ignoring the past. I guess sometimes we just need to look back in time(:

When style meets even more style.

Yup. Meet the Coolest Keyboard ever.

“Each of the 113 keys is a stand-alone display that shows the function currently assigned to it. Optimus’s customizable layout allows convenient use of any language — Cyrillic, Ancient Greek, Georgian, Arabic, Quenya, hiragana, etc. — as well as of any other character sets: notes, numerals, special symbols, HTML codes, math functions and so on to infinity.”

Well, its like having 113 mini LCDS on EACH key. now thats crazy. whats more these keys are fully customizable, meaning you could actually change the keys’ picture whenever you want, depending on which application is used.

Imagine playing you favorite game and the keys displaying on the keyboard automatically changes to those of in the game itself.. There is no longer a need to even open the settings menu to check out the key settings. Since you can pretty much just look down on your keyboard – they pictures pretty much give an idea of what it does in the game.

keys never looked this cool.

This sleek keyboard costs a bomb. But does the price matter when you can get your hands on such a cool device?