Magnetic life buoy

One of the biggest fears while evacuating a sinking ship is the possibility of survivors being carried away by the tide, and people getting lost at sea. The Network Tube is a rescue tube with magnetic properties and aims to form a floating cluster, bringing people together via GPS. When people huddle together, they not only boost each other’s morale, but they also increase their chances of survival.

Designers: Son Kijo, Joon Hyoung Seo, Uhm Hyung Woo, Choi JinYoung & Kim Junpyo

Where is the Camera?

Air Clicker by Yeon Su Kim

A unique design concept which eliminates all that superfluous crap in most of the camera. Stripping the idea down to two modules you wear on your fingers, one a Bluetooth-enabled camera lens (which sends your “pictures” directly to your smartphone) and the other a motion-sensitive shutter button for “clicking”. Simply curving your fingers would enable the video mode. Smile for the fingers!

If you want to click pictures, wear the camera band on your thumb and the shutter button on your forefinger and gesture to click a pic. To take videos, simply curve your fingers to mimic a video camera grip and shoot. The tension from the finger movement triggers the shutter button to operate.

The art of the paper

Paper is the most important thing in our life new. We almost use it every day. Did ever think about what else can do by the paper?

Let me show you some paper of the art.

1.Architectural Paper Sculptures by katsumi hayakawa

“floating city”

“traffic blue line”

 “permutation”by katsumi hayakawa, 2011

 

 2.Amazing Paper Sculptures

 

3.Art on Paper

Life-Saving Skirt

Evacuation Skirt Inflates into a Kayak

 

 

 

The Evacuation Skirt was inspired by the Katrina storms in New Orleans and serves and a regular flowy skirt, but inflates into a kayak to become a life saver in extreme weather conditions. When inflated, the Evacuation Skirt can hold a full-grown adult woman and allows users to float atop floods and lakes when needed, becoming a suit life saver in emergency situations. Designer Yael Mer, says he “wanted to raise the question of emergency and beauty and to explore whether they can meet each other.”

Fashion Design of plastic by TOMAAS

New York-based fashion & art photographer Tomaas’ Plastic Fantastic series of images has an overall sense of etherealness. The model is staged with various plastic items such as straws, tubing, platters, and bottles. The striking contrast of the black background with the cool lighting creates an edgy, dream-like theatrical element.

Nokia New Phone

This fish-shaped concept is a departure from the rectangular devices we gawk over these days, and gives us an peek at a future where smartphone design has evolved beyond limitation. The soul of HumanForm contains part nanotechnology, a flexible display, and kinetic interaction. Nokia bills the concept as "a visionary solution beyond touch screen and voice communication where technology becomes invisible and intuition takes over." If HumanForm ever becomes real, users can bend the transparent display to navigate around the social-network-oriented interface. Aside from the entire phone being touch screen, it would also have support for gestures. Browsing images could occur simply by twisting the phone or bending it backward to zoom in. HumanForm could also have an "electro tactile" enhanced display, which could, for example, give an image of rocks a bumpy feel. Be sure to check out some real-life images of a HumanForm mockup at Pocket-Lint.

Everything you know about smartphone design will change one day. 

Alternative Company Logos

Logos are around us anywhere in life. Logos are the special sign for people to remember. Did you ever think about what's different if change the logos a little bit? Let's see the changed logos.

 

Viktor Hertz is a Swedish freelance graphic designer with something of a sense of humor. Here, he takes some immediately recognizable company logos and twists them just a little to come up with something a little more forthright! 

The Corner House

 

Anna Nakamura and Taiyo Jinno of Kyoto-based architecture firm Eastern Design Office have created another sharp structure with the On the Corner house. It’s a seven-unit rental apartment complex located in an mixed use residential/industrial area of Youkaichi, Japan. The lot, which is severely triangular, remained empty for some time, as the shape made it undesirable to builders and the city did not want to allocate funds to make it a green space. Looks like it was worth the wait.

The building is concrete, glass, and stone. Yes, the overall structure is triangular, but look — the façade is comprised of square components. The architects conceived the structure as a surreal “present” or “toy box,” and also liken it to “a fictional tip of a boat [that looks] as if it were escaping from town.” On a more practical note, each unit is made up of a living room, kitchen, two bedrooms and a bathroom. 

Look at this picture and think what made this picture?

    A. photograph

B. Crayon

  C. Printing

    D. Embroidere

The answer is hand embroidered, crewel wool and acrylic on linen.

American artist cayce zavaglia considers herself a painter, yet has difficulty considering her work of embroidered portraits as painting themselves. 

Her realistic impressions of people are executed using crewel embroidery wool, for which over time she has created a system of sewing threads in a sequence that gives the appearance of a particular color or tone - her method of 'mixing' colors. 

Threads are sewn in precise directions in order to mimic the way lines are layered in a typical drawing an allusion of depth, volume and form. throughout her series of work, the stitches have become tighter and more complex.

No More Lost

Are you always looking for your key or others that you use often? You use them everyday, but cannot find them each time when you want them. Chu Wang Designed a key control called Finder. I think this will help to find your stuff.

Finder is a two-part RFID Locator comprising of the main terminal and tab stickers. Basically you are supposed to stick the tracking stickers to objects that you tend to misplace often, like keys, phone, wallet etc. Configure the sticker with the appropriate label on the main terminal and you are set to use it. When you look for something, just type the name and then you will find it.