Street Furniture – Pop Up Public Seating
Ever been somewhere and wanted to take a break, but there was no great place to sit? Designer Oliver Show decided to create a simple way to put seating into public areas, using yellow drainage pipes that are found sound the city of Hamburg. The pipes are flexible, cheap, and weather resistant. The design is simple – find a spot [...]
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Superbrushes: Better Than Other Brushes
Last Friday I attended a launch event by Evan Marcell where he introduced Superbrushes, a set of new Photoshop brushes that he has created for use to paint and create digital images. Marcell created the brushes by taking pictures of textures around Cleveland, editing them, and preparing them as brush files to be loaded into Adobe Photoshop. The abstract brush [...]
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Teachbox: A Toy Design for Emergency Supply Boxes
Each year, millions of boxes are shipped to developing countries by organizations like UNICEF, where food and medical supplies are needed. Designers Milad Mohajeri and Ali Haji came up with a idea for the boxes to be used for toys, and not to be used for just kindling. Their simple design integrates printing designs with perforated edges, so that they [...]
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Anti-Theft Lunch Bags
One day my friend told me about how someone was eating some of the carrots from his lunch that he stored in his work’s fridge. It was quite distressing to learn that this was why the carrots seemed to disappear so quickly. If having your food stolen by coworkers or roommates is a problem, you can get the Anti-theft Lunch [...]
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The Disappearing Package – Product Packaging with No Waste
Ever had a soap wrapped in paper that you could use as soap? A package of garbage bag that is packaged in a bag itself that you could use? Every year, we throw away 70 million tons of packaging. It is the largest component of what is in our landfills. Each year this is increasing. The Disappearing Package is a [...]
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