Waive Chaise

This was an entry for a competition for teenage furniture design.

Designed by Roberta Rammê from Brazil.

I soooo want one!

Designer's own words:

"Imagine a furniture to wear... then dress it with an innovator design, intense colors, ergonomics and technology appeal. Like in fashion, the point is to unify beauty, comfort, and functionality. Whether your desire is to watch TV or DVD, listen to your favorite CD, read, talk on the phone, or even study, take a nap or browse the internet, you got it close, in a multifunctional chaise-longue. This concept is inspired by the values and personality of a today's teenager and the standards generated by a global hi-tech culture of facilities, where the access to technology is cheap and easy."

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Melting LED Light Bulbs

This concept created by industrial designer Keita Ogawa, won the bronze award in The 22nd Koizumi International Lighting Design Competition for Students. Every bulb looks like it’s melting while you use it.

A reminder about the unnecessary energy being wasted daily.

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BP: Behind The Logo

In response to the BP Gulf oil “spill”, Greenpeace UK invites the public to break out their color pencils and redesign the BP logo. You can enter the competition online here.

The competition runs until June 28th. You can view all of the entries so far here.

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Vancouver 2010 Campaign

Cool illustrations for the print campaign of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games which will take place startng February 12. By Studio Vanoc Canada.
 
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IKEA's Brilliant Facebook Campaign

Here's the story.

IKEA opened a new store in Malmo, Sweden and didn't have a lot of money to advertise about it or let people know about it. So they hired a small advertising agency called Forsman and Bodenfors to create a special launch campaign.

Now, what the agency did was that it created a Facebook profile for the store manager, Gordon Gustavsson. and over a period of 2 weeks, it uploaded images from IKEA showrooms to his Facebook photo album. Then they announced that the first person to tag their name to a product in the pictures, won it.

Before you knew it, word got out and thousands of Swedes were begging for more pictures so they could tag themselves a new sofa, a new bed etc. At this point, thousands of Swedes, were spreading pictures of IKEA showrooms all around their profile pages!

Genius!

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Water Stopping Water

"A design that echoes the water that it is made to stop".
Water Stopping Water is the winner of the I.D. Design Award 2007 and 2008 winner of the IDEA Design Award.

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UBoard

The UBoard was awarded the best design's award in Designtag 2009.
It has a glass shelf, 3 USB ports, a memo holder and a cup holder! Awesome to de-clutter your desk...Oh I am drooling!!! Love it! Want it!
Buy it here.

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Food Lovers

"Work of the winner of the competition of IED in Packaging Design for the course of 2009/10: The idea of this project is to promote a more healthy food consumption and, concurrently, to also promote sustainable local agriculture, which involves methods that do not harm the environment, respect workers and animals, provide fair wages to farmers and support farming communities."

Designed by Brazil based designer Isabela Serta.

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Race for the 2016 Olympics

Two months from now the International Olympic Committee will name the host city of the 2016 Summer Olympics. If the decision were based solely on design, which candidate would win?
Click here for more on the topic.