Foil Balloon Inspired Fruit Bowl : Hollowware

At first glance, you may be forgiven if you mistook the picture below for a somewhat dented child’s foil balloon. But it is actually an inflatable metallic plastic foil fruit bowl called Hollowware designed by Kim Buck of Denmark. He is actually a goldsmith and he took the term “hollowware” from the term used for metal tableware such as containers. His unique inflatable tableware not only functional but humorous as well!


It was one of 12 Danish designs recently presented as “MindCraft” at the 100% Design London Exhibition by the Danish Crafts Organisation.

Illumination with Style - Birds On A Wire

For those who want things that are a little bit out of common, here is a great and beautiful example of how you can use illumination with style. Javier Henriquez and Sebastian Lara from the Mexican design studio eos méxico got inspired by the suburb afternoons and came up with this beautiful birds on a wire illumination. A simple design, but the effect is very interesting, and I’m sure that is not to much work to build yourself one of these.

Beautifuel Life - Oil Can Coffee Set

Ouch. With oil selling at record prices, filling up our cars at the pump really hurts our wallets these days. Global demand, especially from rapidly growing economies like China and India, is far outstripping our capacity to produce enough oil. So it makes more and more sense to curb our dependence on crude. Perhaps a good way to remind us to change our oil guzzling lifestyle is this gold tone oil can tea set made by Designcommando (Germany). The designers called their creation Beautifuel Life because “We all have a beautiful life that is given to us by oil and fuel.”
The coffee service is porcelain. For the exclusive series, the oil can is covered with real gold. It is painted gold for the normal series. The gold colour serves as a daily reminder that the cost of oil may as well be in the same category as the precious metal itself. So each morning you pour your favourite beverage from the oil can pot, you will be conscious of draining supplies.

Serve Your Guests with Ease with Carrier

Sayonara Rush is a group that operates in the field of design and communication, specialized on food and beverage industry. They designed this very useful product called Carrier (Portante), that can help you to carry a high number of wine glasses and is the same time the bottle or wine or champagne, without having problems. Also, just imagine the ease in serving. All in a great design that seeks to provide greatest utility and comfort.

Two Clever Clear Lighting Solutions For Your Home

Clear lamps are great because they can blend so easily with any color scheme. But won’t it be even better if they could also help you solve organizational problems in your home at the same time? Like misplaced magazines and books. If you’ve been spending too much time hunting for that book you were reading, then you might like the clear reading lamp by Bureaudebank of The Netherlands. There is also a frosted version. It is a combination reading lamp and book or magazine stand made from perspex and stainless steel. The lamp is divided into two halves with a space for the books. Now you will spend less time hunting and more time reading for your book will be literally on the lamp by your favourite coccooning spot.
The second featured lamp design is by Nicolo Taliani of Italy. His lamp solves the perennial problem of long, dangling lamp electrical cords. If you are not fond of bundling up the cord with some unsightly tie, then it makes so much sense to incorporate that cord as part of the design of the lamp. His Lamp No. 1 design comes in four different colors - red, white, black and orange. The cord colors match the lamp shade for an added color punch. These are “clearly” two examples where the designs have form and double function!