I have always believed that good design should be functional, beautiful and practical. The HANG wall hooks from Italian design house Seletti fulfill all these conditions.
The letters are 8” tall, and come with all the requisite hardware required for installation. You can buy the set here for $68.
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I just dig the Sweeney Todd reference on this totally sweet-looking Razorblade Mirror from Suck UK. I’m not totally sold on the functionality part, but would still love to own one.
The mirror is priced at £75.00 (or about $149).
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The Toast Messenger allows you to burn your custom messages in your own handwriting onto slices of ordinary bread.
Sasha Tseng, a Taiwanese designer now based in San Francesco, is the brains behind the device, which was awarded the silver prize in the New Era Gourmet Cooking 2000-2010 section by EUPA.
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If you hate the mess created by tangled cables, you will just love this. The sleek-looking Cablebox cable organizer from BlueLounge is a great combination of form and function.
Made from fire retardant plastic, the aesthetically designed box is large enough to fit surge protectors and power strips of all shapes and sizes.
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A Tangram is a Chinese puzzle made by cutting a square into five triangles, a square, and rhombus. The pieces must be arranged to form a shape of some sort.
Italian Designer Daniele Lago used the Tangram concept to design these uber-cool bookshelves. The shevles, like the puzzle itself, can be arranged to form various designs. [...]
I found this this funky looking "Splash Lounge Chair" created by designer Michael Wendel on the Yanko Design site.
Wendel was probably inspired by shots of water/milk splashes captured with high speed photography.
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Shtrikh Kod (Barcode) is an unique, one-of-a-kind tribute to capitalism located in St. Petersburg, Russia (of all places.)
The brightly colored mall, designed by architectural studio Vitruvio and Sons, provides some much needed visual-relief to the drab skyline of the residential area it is situated in.
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This funky looking chair was designed by award winning artist Oki Sato of Nendo Inc.
Influential fashion designer Issey Miyake, the curator of the XXIst Century Man exhibition in Tokyo, asked Nendo to produce a chair out of pleated paper, and so, the design firm came up with the unique looking chair.
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A well designed business card is a great way to make a good first impression on people.
Here is an entire gallery filled with pictures of hundreds of exquisitely designed business cards to inspire and bedazzle you.
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These uber-cool ‘Knife Hooks’ were designed by TC Studio, a design firm based in the United Kingdom.
The coat hooks are made of polyurethane and steel, and are available only in matte black. There is an option to buy them online at Bouf for a pricey $ 50 apiece, but they are currently out [...]
I found this innovatively designed wine bottle holder on the ever-interesting Trends in Japan blog.
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For wine lovers who like nice design, but especially Japanese lacquer ware, we found this amazing bottle holder from Yamakyu Urushi’s Kasane line. Made of wood and lacquer, it balances the bottle perfectly on the [...]
I have fallen in love with this stunningly beautiful ‘pixel’ couch designed by Spanish designer Cristian Zuzunaga.
He used a couch from Italian design studio, Moroso and fabric from Kvadrat, to realise his vision.
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This salt and pepper shaker set showing some good old fashioned, hot interracial lovin, is available at Emmo Home for $28.
Jokes apart, it’s a clever piece and interesting piece of design.
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Airbrushing and extreme photo-manipulation, the mainstay of adult men’s magazines like Playboy and Penthouse, sadly, has now invaded the design departments of most magazines and publications around the world.
We are now completely conditioned to seeing plastic women with expressionless faces and impossibly curvaceous bodies.
The ‘Photoshop Disasters’ blog has some great user-submitted examples of [...]
This rather unique, porcine, porcelain piggy bank is named Theosaurus, or Theo for short. Theo is no ordinary piggy bank. He is available on the Theosaurus.de site for prices ranging from $70 to a shocking $150 for the gold plated edition.
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His design originated from Morphorm/Martin Schatz, a product designer from Berlin [...]
This beautiful Dharma lounge chair was designed by Palette Industries, a firm based in Calgary, Alberta Canada.
Even though the letters are jumbled up, the message behind the design concept becomes quite clear when we examine it in closer detail. The actual words are : Stand. Forget. Breathe. Knowledge. Observe.
It’s an original, if somewhat [...]
The TENORI-ON is an electronic interactive device featuring a touch-screen interface consisting of 256 led buttons which can be manipulated to create music. Billed as the musical instrument for the 21st century, the Yamaha TENORI-ON was the result of a collaboration between interactive media and installation artist Toshio Iwai and the Yamaha Corporation.
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This funky looking ‘Cassette‘ tote bag from Fred & Friends is made of flexible plastic, with handles that mimic the look of unspooled tape.
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If your world revolves around books, the Bibliochaise chair is perfect for you.
The chair has slots around it, which allow you to stack your favorite books for easy access. The cushion comes with removable leather covers in many different colors.
It’s not one of the most practical of designs, but it works.
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This concept TIWE OLED watch is the brainchild of Lv Zhongfang, a product designer based in China.
The white dots appear randomly on the surface of the watch. Shaking the watch or gently tapping its glass surface makes the white dots to align themselves to show the exact time.
You cannot buy one yet, as [...]
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