designcombo

Clothes Rack Combo

2014-01-19T19:50:00.000+02:00

If closet space is an issue for you (or is simply non-existent), purchasing a clothes rack is a great way to add some extra storage and organizational options for your garments. While the word clothing rack may stir up mental images of metal racks from department stores, clothing racks today come in a wide variety of styles and materials, with numerous organizational features that can help your clothing situation become even more organized.

Portable clothing racks can be used in a home with or without closet space, and can be particularly useful for renters. Available in numerous finishes and styles, as well as set sizes and adjustable versions, a portable clothes rack is a simple way to get more space for those items that need to be hung up. It’s also a great option if you don’t want to invest in a chest of drawers. Many items can be hung on a hanger, while socks and intimates can be stored in bins.

3D Murals by John Pugh

2013-09-13T18:51:00.001+03:00

John Pugh is an American artist known for creating large trompe-l'oeil wall murals giving the illusion of a three-dimensional scene behind the wall. Pugh has been creating his murals since the late 1970s. He attended California State University Chico, receiving his BA in 1983 and the Distinguished Alumni Award in 2003. He has received numerous public and private commissions in the United States, Taiwan, and New Zealand. He lives in Santa Cruz, California. His particular mural style sparked the term "Narrative Illusionism".

Lambent Chair by Glen Lewis Steele

2013-09-12T14:51:00.002+03:00

Inspired by a collapsible, wooden, giraffe toy from my childhood, the ‘Lambent Chair’ is designed to shed light where you need it. Be it casting a soft light over a room or directing it down onto the fine text of your novel. A glowing switch placed behind the braid allows for the lamp to work by itself when not being used as a seat. However when you choose to sit on its floating seat, your weight compresses an inbuilt spring loaded mechanism. Activating an internal system of tension wires which tighten and loosen like tendons in a finger, causing the lamp to angle down towards you and then straighten back up when you stand. The New Zealand beech wood and Techflex, silica, braided shaft seemingly dangle from the striking, crescent, LED lamp. All adding to the illusion of an ethereal piece of furniture.

source: DesignCreme

I-phone Case Combo 2

2013-07-22T23:51:00.000+03:00

for more i-phone cases here... I-phone Case Combo 1

Alix Sofa by Tilt, Limited Edition

2013-07-03T00:44:00.001+03:00

Internationally renowned French graffiti artist Tilt has collaborated with Amaze workshops to create an incredible and somewhat unexpected new piece of work. Alix , his personal reimagination of a sofa , is an iconic and boundary pushing piece of bold design. Tilt has created a covetable item that combines statement style and quality, whilst pushing boundaries to provide an evolutionary contribution to design led functional furniture. The bold monochrome palette enhances the equally striking contrast of the padded leather with a clean wooden framework. From behind, the sofa looks like another brilliant piece of Tilt’s signature traditional graffiti artwork , but once seen from the other side, it transforms into a luxury piece of furniture, with an inviting erotic edge. Created in France, master craftsmen worked tirelessly over 752 hours to make Tilt ‘s incredible creativity and imagination a reality; suffice it to say, the whole project was undeniably worth every second.

Baubike by Michael Ubbesen Jakobsen

2013-06-21T19:39:00.001+03:00

Inspired by Bauhaus design, the epitome of modernism, the BauBike makes artistic use of clean lines and geometric shapes. Creating a functional ride and a piece of art through design, the frame features squares and equilateral triangles limiting all of the lines to 60 or 90 degree angles. The extra open end piece over the back wheel gives you room to add an extra seat or basket.

Patka Restaurant by El Equipo Creativo, Barcelona

2013-06-19T19:39:00.001+03:00

In the Quechua language of Peru Pakta means “union”; in this case the union of two cultures and their respective cuisines . The interior design created by El Equipo Creativo emerges from this same idea, considering that Japanese cuisine is the basis of the nikkei gastronomy but wrapped in Peruvian tastes, colours, traditions and ingredients. With this in mind, the basic elements of the restaurant such as the bars, the kitchen and the furniture are designed with a clear reference to the architecture of the traditional Japanese taverns.
An explosion of colours evocative of Peru envelopes the space. This chromatic “second skin” is achieved by use of a direct reference to the Peruvian loom, offering a surprising combination of colours which contrast with the austere Japanese design, and underlining the deep-rootedness of this artefact in Peruvian arts and crafts. However, the re-interpretation of the Peruvian loom goes further, sequencing its own elaboration process on the walls of Pakta, transforming this flat surface to offer a tridimensional character to the space, adding vitality and movement and blurring the limits which mark the locale. The traditional Peruvian weaving looms are wooden mechanisms where colored threads intertwine in various directions, forming a suggestive tridimensional space which generates an attractive atmosphere transformed and reinterpreted in Pakta.
The final result unites the re-interpretation of these two cultures--Peruvian and Japanese-- by means of some of their most emblematic traditional elements, creating a visually potent but balanced solution, at once spontaneous and rational, hilarious and silent, surprising but strangely familiar, as is the nikkei cuisine itself.

Ask Italian Restaurant by Gundry & Ducker

2013-06-17T01:12:00.001+03:00

Ask Italian restaurant Gundry and Ducker at Bluwater, Greenhithe - UK

Ask Italian restaurant by Gundry & Ducker at Bluewater, Greenhithe – UK.. - See more at: http://designcreme.blogspot.gr/2013/06/ask-italian-restaurant-by-gundry-ducker.html#sthash.lqYr9XNb.dpuf

Ask Italian restaurant by Gundry & Ducker at Bluewater, Greenhithe – UK.. - See more at: http://designcreme.blogspot.gr/#sthash.F6QTqHNE.dpuf

Sydney Opera Camper by Axel Enthoven

2013-06-13T20:07:00.004+03:00

Alighting in France’s Provence with the fragrance of lavender in the air. Enjoying a good glass of wine in the hills of Tuscany. Day-dreaming with the murmur of the Mediterranean in your ears.
If you make the Opera your travel companion, a whole new world will open up to you. A world in which you can enjoy the luxuries of a comfortable hotel against the backdrop of your favourite natural landscapes. A world in which you have the freedom to go, or stay, wherever you wish, while relishing the purity of the outdoors in style. Welcome to the world of Opera, Your Suite in Nature.

The Opera is a mobile designer suite in a class of her own. Within minutes, she will show you her characteristic outlines, resting firmly on her legs in a level position. The teak veranda is an invitation for you to come on board, where you’ll be amazed by the luxury and detail. Such as the two electrically adjustable beds that can easily be transformed into one. Or the boiler supplying warm water to the kitchen, the fountain and the (exterior) shower. The hot air heating.
The ceramic toilet. The top loading refrigerator. The low-energy LED lighting from awning to floor. The Opera offers you the convenience of a complete holiday home.

source: www.ysin.co.uk

Dawson’s Horizons for the Gibbs Farm

2013-06-09T16:36:00.000+03:00

Dawson’s Horizons is one of the earliest sculptures to be commissioned for the Gibbs Farm. Sitting as it does on one of the highest points in the property it is also one of the few works that can be seen from the road. This seems fitting given the way the tromp l’oeil character of the work is suggestive of a giant piece of corrugated iron that might have blown in from a collapsed water tank on some distant farm, only to rest precariously until the next gale lifts it into the air again.
An unusual setting for a sculpture collection, this North Auckland property is dominated by the Kaipara Harbour. To appreciate all the artwork on the Farm it is a good 3 - 4 hr walk over undulating farmland and a reasonable level of fitness and mobility is required.

Complex Digital Images and Mosaics by Charis Tsevis

2013-06-08T01:44:00.001+03:00

Charis Tsevis is an award winning visual designer living and working in Athens,Greece.
He holds a Diploma of Graphic Design from the Akademie fur das Grafishe Gewerbe, Munchen and a Master in Visual Design from the Scuola Politecnica di Design, Milano.
He manages a modest studio by the name of Tsevis Visual Design in Athens serving clients all over the world. His client list includes companies like Nike, PepsiCo, Toyota and IKEA, advertising agencies like TBWA\Chiat\Day, Saatchi & Saatchi LA, DDB Munich and Leo Burnett Hong Kong and media like Time, Fortune, Wired and the Wall Street Journal. Charis is a part time professor of Editorial Design and Typography at the AKTO College of Art and Design since the year 1996. He has also presented seminars at the Panteion University of Athens and he has given lectures in numerous national and international conferences and symposiums like the International Conference on Typography and Visual Communication, the TEDx Athens, the Adobe D-Day and many more. Charis is also a regular columnist in some of the most respected design and computer magazines in Greece (+design, RAM etc.). He has also written 2 books about Adobe Photoshop.

Charis' work is awarded in ED Awards (Europe), Epica Awards (Europe), NPSA (USA), Behance (USA), EBGE (Greece) and others.

source: DesignCreme

Compressed VW Beetles by Ichwan Noor

2013-06-04T19:49:00.002+03:00

Indonesian artist Ichwan Noor creates fantastic automobile-based sculptures. To form his “Beetle Sphere”, he used five 1953 Volkswagen Beetles combined with polyester and aluminum.
“The idea emerged from a personal perception towards objects that are products of a ‘transportation culture’, which induces hints/signs of spiritual emotion. To behold a vehicle (car) is to have a “magical” (supernatural) identity. Sculptures represent the interaction between humans and the object realm, with strong spiritual tension that affects the subconscious, and that yields a new “animistic” attitude. By combining the techniques of manipulation and substitution, the form of this sculpture tends toward realistic distortion, which allows new interpretations about the object (car), as a shift in perception that creates an associative meaning.”

Ichwan Noor

source: DesignCreme

Spnkix Electric Roller Skates (Vid)

2013-06-02T01:03:00.001+03:00

These motorized electric roller skates propel you at up to 8 mph. Simply strap the skates on over their shoes, held securely in place by dual fasteners similar to those on ski boots. Each skate has an 80-watt motor integrated into its rugged fiber-reinforced nylon frame that powers its smooth-rolling 6"-diameter rubber tires. A handheld wireless remote control throttles both skates simultaneously up to 8 mph; gentle stops are achieved by pulling the switch back—engaging the skates' electronic brakes—or by dragging the heel stopper. Each skate has a removable lithium-ion battery that provides up to 40 minutes of continuous power (5-6 mile range) ideal for travel across a school campus, to a local cafe, or while roaming a neighborhood festival.

Riders up to 180 lbs.

Batteries recharge in five hours using the included AC adapter.

Includes one removable training wheel.

Fits men's shoe sizes 6-14, women's 7-15 1/2.

For ages 16 and up.

10 1/2" H x 9 1/2" W x 9" D. (16 lbs.)

No Sweat Workspace Workout by Darryl Agawin

2013-05-30T00:31:00.000+03:00

No, Sweat by Darryl Agawin is a 3-piece workspace furniture set that can transform into exercise furniture. In today’s busy lives it can be difficult to find the time for daily exercise. By combining workspace and workout furniture, it allows anyone to take a break from their busy work schedules and partake in regular daily exercise. This eye catching set of furniture serves to remind the user of the exercise capabilities of their furniture.
The exercises that No, Sweat! utilizes are based on pre-established and well known routines and styles. The basic forms that shaped No Sweat! were drawn from the exercise step, the balance board, the weight bar, the skip rope and the kettle bell. Hundreds of exercises can be extrapolated from these basic structures and equipment.
No, Sweat! can be used wherever desk work is done; from the company office to a studio apartment. This set is designed for everyone, as exercise is important for all ages. No, Sweat! benefits those interested in fitness, yet have not joined a public gym or unable to purchase dedicated home equipment due to a lack of space or finances.
When design No, Sweat!, first hand research was used to establish a working baseline; exploring various exercise disciplines, finding the similarity between various forms. These forms were then dissected and rearranged into a workspace configuration. Pen-and-paper sketching, quick CAD prototyping and full-scale prototypes were used to explore and ultimately refine the myriad of possibilities.
To increase awareness of the project, a short teaser video was released online. Additionally, a custom print titled Curl Bars and Collars, was designed for promotional graphics and lithograph-style posters were designed and printed.
In the same fashion that the 1980s Memphis style design was a postmodern response to Bauhaus’ Form follows function, No, Sweat! proves that one does not need fancy, modern gym equipment in order to have a full body workout. No, Sweat! provides a mental and physical break from the work day and gets people moving.

FF1 Chair by Tom de Vrieze & James van Vossel

2013-05-28T22:49:00.000+03:00

Fox & Freeze is a Creative Cooperation between 2 Belgian designers : James

Van Vossel and Tom De Vrieze. Vos is Dutch for Fox and Vrieze(n) is Freeze.

FF1 or Fox & Freeze1 is an indoor lounge chair made from 1 square sheet of

synthetic felt. FF1 is Extra Light, Self Supporting and Extra Strong.

Secret Hero Life by Grégoire Guillemin

2013-05-27T22:19:00.000+03:00

The French artist Grégoire Guillemin reveals the well-kept Secret Life of Super Heroes with the series of illustrations ''Secret Life Hero''.

Umbrellas Combo

2013-05-27T03:35:00.001+03:00

An umbrella or parasol (also called a brolly, parapluie, rainshade, sunshade, gamp, bumbershoot, or umbrolly) is a canopy designed to protect against rain or sunlight. The word parasol usually refers to an item designed to protect from the sun, umbrella refers to a device more suited to protect from rain. Often the difference is the material, some parasols are not waterproof. Parasols are often meant to be fixed to one point and often used with patio tables or other outdoor furniture. Umbrellas are almost exclusively hand-held portable devices; however, parasols can also be hand-held. The collapsible (or folding) umbrella may have first been used in China, although its appearance elsewhere seems to have been independent, and had sliding levers similar to those in use today.
The word umbrella comes from the Latin word umbra, meaning shade or shadow (the Latin word, in turn, derives from the Ancient Greek ómbros [όμβρος].) Brolly is a slang word for umbrella, used often in Britain, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, and Kenya. Bumbershoot is a fanciful Americanism from the late 19th century

In 1928, Hans Haupt's pocket umbrellas appeared. In 1969, Bradford E Phillips, the owner of Totes Incorporated of Loveland, Ohio obtained a patent for the first "working folding umbrella".
Umbrellas are now a consumer product with a large global market. As of 2008, most umbrellas worldwide are made in China, mostly in the Guangdong, Fujian and Zhejiang provinces. The city of Shangyu alone had more than a thousand umbrella factories. In the US alone, about 33 million umbrellas, worth $348 million, are sold each year.Umbrellas continue to be actively developed. In the US, so many umbrella-related patents are being filed that the U.S. Patent Office employs four full-time examiners to assess them. As of 2008, the office registered three thousand active patents on umbrella-related inventions. Nonetheless, Totes, the largest American umbrella producer, has stopped accepting unsolicited proposals. Its director of umbrella development was reported as saying that while umbrellas are so ordinary that everyone thinks about them, "it's difficult to come up with an umbrella idea that hasn’t already been done.

Miniature Apartment Street Art by Evol

2013-05-25T17:03:00.001+03:00

Evol is a German artist currently living and working in Berlin. Born in Heilbronn, Germany, he attended the Kuopio Academy of Arts and Crafts in Finland and has a degree in product design from HFG Schwäbisch Gmünd in Germany. Evol has had solo exhibits in Germany, Belgium, China and the United States.
While his gallery work includes installations and paintings on cardboard, his work in the streets primarily centers around apartment buildings. Using a layered stencil technique, Evol transforms the unlikeliest of mediums into the outside of mundane, everyday apartment buildings. There’s depth to his artwork and they are so realistic you may catch yourself wondering if there are little people in each of the units going about their lives.

To see more of Evol’s work, be sure to check him out on Flickr. You can also find him on his personal website evoltaste.com (although it hasn’t been updated in a couple of years).

source: DesignCreme

Poppins by Alessandrabaldereschi Design Studio

2013-05-24T20:50:00.001+03:00

In the Poppins collection by Alessandrabaldereschi Design Studio the upholstery is used to create a visual impression: the illusion of many pillows laying on a bench.

The inspiration comes from the Optical Art’s method which, through the use of color and geometric shapes, creates, starting from a plane a three-dimensional optical illusions.

The padding protrudes from the surface of wood, is took down and positioned only where is necessary. Through its three-dimensionality and a slight deformation of shapes, you get a dynamic effect, a vibration enhanced by color.

The cushions become a part of the structure, increasing the comfort of the seat and representing the aesthetic value of the project. This value comes from ancient times, when the cushions was made with precious materials as a symbol of royalty.

Clip Bag by Peter Bristol

2013-05-22T23:16:00.000+03:00

New scale creates new purpose.

The Clip Bag by Peter Bristol playfully borrows its form from a common binder clip.

The binder icon functions so well as a bag you can almost take it seriously.

Constructed of wool felt and aluminum tubing.

Concept project designed in 2007. Released in 2013.

House T For A Couple by Hiroyuki Shinozaki

2013-05-21T18:55:00.000+03:00

House T is a residence and atelier for a couple in the center of Tokyo.

Floor like bookshelf plates are placed at the different level in the shifted box. Furniture is put on the each floor to create living room, dining room, kitchen and bedroom. Each plate-like-floors are only hooked by columns which are three-dimensionally intersected at the middle of the box and this simple structure gives latitude for space composition. In massive volume of the box, each different activity of daily living is took place at each floor with open view. Lightings hung from top of the box till the each floors to illuminate them such as a floating stage. A small residence like big furniture showcases the living on the stage.

Wine Rack Combo

2013-05-12T21:59:00.001+03:00

A wine rack is a device that stores and organizes wine. Wine racks can be built out of a number of different materials. The size of the rack and the number of bottles it can hold can vary widely. Wine racks can be located in a winemaker’s professional wine cellar as well as private homes for personal collections.

Kitchen Tools Set Elementare by Studio Lievito

2013-05-09T21:12:00.002+03:00

Elementare, Carrara marble and stainless steel kitchen tools Set by Studio Lievito. Ideal plane of pure geometry to experiment with food. Primary shapes that roll out, crumble, chop and come back to their places following the rules of ‘the game’. The sphere crumbles the spices, the cylinder rolls out the dough and smashes meat, the cube scales fish, the prism chops the vegetables.

Rock It Suda Guest Houses by Moon Hoon

2013-04-27T22:53:00.001+03:00

Rock It Suda by Moon Hoon is a series of unconventional guest houses, or pensions as they are so called in Jeongseon, South Korea, that sit peering over the edge of a mountainside. The robotic structures are 6 houses, or rooms, that are each themed: Spain, Barbie, stealth, Ferrari, cave and korean traditional house. Their totally wild designs solidify Rock It Suda as the most unique accommodation its guests have ever stayed in.

Cykno Vintage Electric Bicycle

2013-04-19T22:07:00.001+03:00

It is difficult to consider Cykno as a bicycle; Cykno is an eclectic vehicle, which was designed to meet the needs for mobility although maintaining a low environmental impact. Cykno is an exclusive and precious solution for an evolved and conscious clients who is aware of sustainable mobility issues. Vintage style design, innovative and fine materials combined with a precise made in Italy technology and production. Cykno is the result of an idea – a dream – of Bruno Greppi, a great engineer and innovator in the motorbike field, in collaboration with the Luca Scopel a designer who is specialized in the development of concept and luxury products. Cykno is the tangible outcome resulting from the collaboration between Gianpietro Vigorelli and Riccardo Lorenzini, gurus of Italian advertising over the past 30 years and through the active participation of some managers of finance.

power – 250/500 watts  
battery capacity – 360 wh  
charging time – 4 hours  
autonomy – 60 km  
wheels – 26”x3.00”  
203 mm hydraulic disc brakes  
wheelbase – 139 cm  
weight – 26 kg

pedal assist with torque sensor

monocoque frame, radial spokes wheels and fork all entirely in carbon  
saddle suspended on a stainless steel high resistance foil made on client specific size
aluminium hubs
centrally mounted swedish manufacture motor on a carbon cradle that matches the frame perfectly  
high energy density lithium polymer battery pack  
radial brake master cylinders with carbon fiber levers  
radial brake calipers mounted on 203mm stainless steel floating discs with aluminium hub  
all the parts in aluminium, like pedals, handlebar stem, fork bottoms, rear caliper support and screws are
made to specific design for this application only and all parts are made in italy  
the battery charger, with cable is stored on-board  

source: cykno.com