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Concrete Beauty

Troy Turner — Wed, 16 May 2012 17:08:25 GMT

Situation on the west coast of the Baltic island of Öland, Villa Widlund stands out as a solid white, geometric, concrete landmark in perfect contrast with a backdrop of picturesque ocean views and serene beach landscapes. Construction and furnishings are minimal so that each room highlights the windows and spectacular outdoor views. Everything about this modern beach villa is dreamy – I’d have trouble deciding to be in or out!

Designer: Claesson Koivisto Rune Architects

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Audio Globe

Radhika Seth — Wed, 16 May 2012 08:11:18 GMT

Designed to rotate on a 23.4 degree slanted axis like the globe, DORA CD Player grabs your attention with its clever gimmick design. This could have been another drab rectangular gadget, meant to seduce you with textures and colors, but thankfully it isn’t! The CD loads into the back panel, while the speakers are placed in the front. I love the catchy remote that accompanies this player; spin my world right round, like a record…..

Designer: Jeong Yong

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Yes, Another Socket

Radhika Seth — Wed, 16 May 2012 08:01:55 GMT

Search for “Socket” on Yanko Design and you will be hit by countless designs, making you wonder why is this component so important in our lives. If it’s not the socket per-se, then it’s the plugs that most designers are worried about. Adding to the list is the Live Socket, an iteration that takes away the bother of pulling the plug once we are done with an appliance. Child safe and energy friendly, this design is clever and practical too!

Live Socket is a 2012 iF Design Talents entry.

Designer: Xu Zhang

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Purrrrfect Jag

Troy Turner — Wed, 16 May 2012 07:01:51 GMT

Inspired by the vintage Jag e-type of the 1960s, the Jaguar XKX concept finds a modern balance between pure muscle and supreme elegance. The design returns to the total smoothness of the brand’s original models with soft, fluid lines that dip and curve into one another like liquid. Vintage inspiration combined with highly advanced tech (I.E. – an outer skin that recharges the battery) make this one fierce kitty.

With a much smaller and cooler power plant than conventional models, the aerodynamics were conceived in a new innovative way. The side deflector intakes of the front are broader so a much less air gets stuck by the engine- instead, it flows behind the front wheels, moving behind them and sliding along the doors before taking another shortcut through the rear wheels and out from the large rear openings. This greatly reduces the total flowing path and subsequently drag.

Designers: Hussain Almossawi & Marin Myftiu

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Bright Slide

Troy Turner — Wed, 16 May 2012 07:01:23 GMT

The super modern-looking Slide Lamp is constructed from a single piece of machine-hallowed hardwood mounted on a cast aluminum base. The unorthodox construction also makes for very unique functionality- simply raise or lower the intuitive side lever to turn it on or off, or adjust the brightness!

Designer: Jason Jahnke

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The Visible Lifesaver

Radhika Seth — Tue, 15 May 2012 09:35:08 GMT

Life Light is perfectly visible in low light and night, making it an efficient and practical lifesaver and emergency buoy by the sea. The upside is that it relies on renewable energy sources to keep the LEDs working at night. It even features an LED water battery. So far the flipside are none, except that it’s still a concept. What do you say?

Life Light is a 2012 iF Design Talents winner.

Designers: Tso Chu-Hao, Hsiang Hao-Tien & Chuang Tsung-Hua

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iPhone Case That Makes Sense

Radhika Seth — Tue, 15 May 2012 09:22:13 GMT

All said and done, the Ö Case makes better sense as an iPhone Case than any others that I have seen. Two things that make this concept win its brownie points: A screen-cleaning slider that cleans those oily finger marks off the screen and a special nook to wind and store your earphones. Simple design, creative solution and a sleek outcome!

Designer: Löytö Esineiden

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Cutie Pod

Troy Turner — Tue, 15 May 2012 07:01:58 GMT

This Segway style vehicle takes the 2-wheeler a step further in the form of a multifunctional transportation pod built for 2. Balanced on a movable joint arm, the Ayhanz Segway can be lowered for speed, linked with other vehicles of its type & even move like a roller coaster hanging from rails! Balancing futurism with realistic functionality, the design takes into account the space saving requirements we can expect in the future, & is a keen look at what urban transportation might really look & behave like.

Designer: Mehdi Alamdari

Never Burn Your Tongue Again!

Troy Turner — Tue, 15 May 2012 07:01:50 GMT

It always happens when you least expect it – you take a drink of your morning coffee and before you know it, it’s too hot… and too late. HATES IT! The Drinking Timing glass by Hsu Sean is a thoughtful design that uses thermo-chromic material to provide a visual indication of the temperature of your drink. Too hot and it will glow bright red, too cold and it will be clear. Remember your shade and you’ll have the perfect temperature each time!

Designer: Hsu Sean

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Oh Snap!

Troy Turner — Tue, 15 May 2012 07:01:37 GMT

I love a good hanger design, and here’s one that makes it possible to hang your clothes in a snap! The Snap Hanger consists of two units that fasten together at a single joint to function like scissors, making it possible to quickly and easily slip into narrow-necked shirts without stretching. Hangers can also be combined vertically to save space or taken apart and nested to take on the road.

Designer: Yong Jeong

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Smart Flame Control

Radhika Seth — Mon, 14 May 2012 08:11:27 GMT

Smart Angle is a visual aid for flame control on a gas stove. While cooking Chinese food, the hot Wok and ingredients are not the only thing you need to have a control over. The heat or the flame of the gas is the other key element you need to keep an eye on. The conventional way to control the flame is to bend at the waist and peek at the burner and then set the flame. Smart Angle eliminates this dangerous step by using refraction.

As the designers explain, Smart Angle helps the user to be more intuitive at controlling the flame while cooking. It prevents occupational disease that might occur in the long term; example: back and waist injuries.

Designers: Hsu Sean & Yih-Wenn Luo

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Time for a Healthy Heart

Troy Turner — Mon, 14 May 2012 08:01:14 GMT

This awesome timepiece by designer Adam Nagy combines the functionality of a clock and fitness pulse monitor into a minimal watch design that will tell you the time and your heart’s beats per minute in a really cool way. Hours and minutes as well as your heart rate are displayed on the screen exactly like an EKG graph! Just don’t freak out when the battery runs out and it flatlines!

Designer: Adam Nagy

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Eco iPhone Dock

Troy Turner — Mon, 14 May 2012 07:01:34 GMT

YoungGun Cho’s dockTRAY for the iphone 4 and 4S provides an eco-friendly solution for docking your iPhone. The multifunctional solid birch wood piece holds the phone upright while it’s being charged but with its hollow sound cavity it won’t muffle the speakers when music is being played. Additional storage space for pens and other items also make it a great desktop organizational tool.

Designer: YoungGun Cho

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Humid Nature

Radhika Seth — Mon, 14 May 2012 07:01:34 GMT

Coming from a coastal city, where excess of humidity (even in winters) is the problem, I simply can’t relate to the fuss around a humidifier. Oh well, if it means that much to you, have a look at this cute concept called Nature Pot. It is a charming humidifier that integrates into your interior setup as a flower vase. Peacefully sitting atop your work desk or home, that moist sunny flower will sure make your day!

Designer: Jeong Yong

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Urban Camping

Troy Turner — Mon, 14 May 2012 07:01:18 GMT

I love a design that takes inspiration from a familiar fragment to stimulate the viewer’s memory and imagination. Lamp Fire is one of these creative concepts and is reminiscent of the campfires that many of us experienced as children. It’s a clever way of enjoying campfire conversations from the comfort of home!

Designer: Creative Session

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The Un-disposable Camera

Radhika Seth — Fri, 11 May 2012 09:31:37 GMT

With his project ‘Timeless Capture’ designer Brian Matanda wants us to slowdown and literally smell the roses before we take a picture of them. Our focus is on tech-specs, angle shots and apps that add artificial glam. In a way the ‘subject’ of our photography looses its relevance. So let’s re-focus on the art of photography, and by the way this camera is a combination of sand blasted aluminum and polished teak and ‘strong archetypal form to produce a timeless aesthetic.’

Here is how it works:

The product is in two parts, a camera and a viewer.
The captured images are immediately downloaded directly to the viewer wirelessly once the camera is in close proximity.
It is also the sole access point to the images, as the camera has no LCD display. Through the use of a touch screen interface, the user is able to view the images as and when they choose.
With limited storage capacity, the user is encouraged to take control of the content thereby making the experience arbitrary.

Designer: Brian Matanda

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Trap That Tail!

Radhika Seth — Fri, 11 May 2012 09:19:20 GMT

My son often questions – how can perfectly wound earphones kept in the pocket, come out so highly tangled! While I’m no good at understanding this logic, however I can offer him this delightful tail! I mean the Line Tail, a cute accessory that can be used as line winder as well as a charm. I’ll take the fox, please.

Designer: sumneeds

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Untamed Lighting

Troy Turner — Fri, 11 May 2012 07:01:34 GMT

The unique Hed Lyte (love the name!) concept by Creative Session will bring soft light and a touch of wildness to any space! The design puts a modern, geometric, sculptural twist on the popular taxidermy animal head, utilizing the elephant model’s tusks and the deer model’s antlers as lighting accents. Sure to be a conversation starter!

Designer: Creative Session

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Steel Pony Rocker

Troy Turner — Fri, 11 May 2012 07:01:05 GMT

The rocking horse is one design that has been a bit played out as there hasn’t been much variation in either shape or style since it first started appearing in homes. This abstract take on the rocker puts emphasis on the structure in a stainless steel version that symbolizes the mere essence of the classic rocking horse. The bare-bones frame is complimented by a braided leather strip seat that gives a subtle nod to its archetypal inspiration.

Designer: J.Key Schneyorson

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Door Handle for Dummies

Troy Turner — Fri, 11 May 2012 07:01:00 GMT

Admit it- you’ve approached a door and had trouble figuring out whether to push or pull. Even though we’ve all experienced this, it can still be embarrassing! Here’s a solution: the Push/Pull Affordance Rotating Handle was developed from a series of cognitive tests that revealed a correlation between handle shape and the directional guess the user has to make. When the user sees its flat surface they will push, and when they see the pointed surface they will pull. It’s a simple concept, but oh-so-smart!

Designer: Tommaso Gecchelin

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Safer Plastic Money

Radhika Seth — Thu, 10 May 2012 15:10:32 GMT

In my part of the world, Credit Card scams are an everyday occurrence. So the companies have gotten smart and allocate us a one-time-pin (OTP) for online shopping but still have to wise-up to forgery and misuse in the physical world. Safe Card is a protective option that allows you to use a Credit Card only after you unlock it with a password. Offering a second tier of security is the option to enter the exact amount to the card interface, so that only the specified amount is charged.

I just feel that you can’t be too safe with plastic money, heck I even have an opaque tape hiding my CVV number!

Designers: Kyoung Mo-baek, Won Park-jang & Hyunwoo-jang

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Electrolux Design Lab 2012 – Design Experience

Radhika Seth — Thu, 10 May 2012 15:06:01 GMT

You can call it the Scandinavian influence or sheer creative genius, but you have to hand to the Electrolux team to come up with such a catchy video that communicates this year’s Design Lab brief with such finesse! The theme for 2012 is to Design Experience! Inspired by the Electrolux Cube experience, Design Lab wants designers to conceptualize appliances that provide a “fuller sensory experience.” Watch this exclusive video that Premiers here on Yanko Design, be inspired and submit your entries latest by June 1st.

Please Note: Deadline for entries is 23:59 CET June 1, 2012 | For details and rules head here!

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Primping Up the Lamps

Radhika Seth — Thu, 10 May 2012 12:41:15 GMT

Unless you live in a vibrant city like Kula Lumpur, where you have such ornate streetlamps, chances are that you are stuck with drab energy draining streetlamps. Parasite is a Photovoltaic Lamp that parasitically hooks onto existing lamps and scaffoldings, primping the old. The PV cell system is modeled on the system designed by Spectrolab.

As the designer explains, “The cells are high in efficiency and use triple junction PV cells, brought to earth after extensive use in space. Their power depends on their nanotech wafer of GaAs (gallium arsenide), a modern material that has nothing to do with common Si (silicon) photovoltaic. These cells work at atmosphere 1 with extreme efficiency and can be forced further with a Fresnel lens, supporting a light intensity up to 1000 suns if correctly refrigerated. I estimated a 260-watt peak production in normal conditions while just covering far less than a square meter surface with these marvelous GaAs cells. Parasite tilts from a relaxed neutral position to 30° in order to harvest energy at its maximum, LED lights grant low consumption and produce an abundant number of lux.”

Designer: Mark Beccaloni

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Swiss Animal Knife

Troy Turner — Thu, 10 May 2012 07:01:33 GMT

More of an entertaining accent than a truly useful tool, the Animal Pocket Knife is for adults who still like their toys! Similar to a Swiss army knife, a variety of stainless steel heads, tails and legs fold out to reveal some of Africa’s native wildlife like the giraffe, antelope and rhinoceros. Perfect for storytelling!

Designer: David Suhami

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The Modern Jukebox

Troy Turner — Thu, 10 May 2012 07:01:20 GMT

The Social Jukebox offers a clever way of sharing music between friends that’s reminiscent of the interactive experience of using an old school juke. Users can load their favorite tunes on wearable, wooden “tokens” that easily attach to clothing, jewelry or keychains. No more switching out iPods at parties- simply place the wooden pieces into the jukebox’s slots to mix and share! Check the vid to see how it works!

Designer: Andrew Pairman

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