LG Shine Wood (not literally)

You want a phone but you are waiting for one made of wood right? Worry not, the LG Shine has morphed into the LG Shine Wood! It looks great to me but apparently is only for sale to Korean schoolgirls.

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Kitty Komputer

I tried to tell Dave not to post this but he overpowered me. These are the new machines that he has everyone working on at ame design these days - it's a dream tie up between NEC, Swarovski and uber cat Hello Kitty. If you want to buy one you'll need to get some Yen (of course).

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Sex shop glasses

Saw this on i believe in advertising.

Beate Uhse, German purveyors of smut have produced smart promotional glasses to save its customers blushes. We just need to get hold of a pair so Dave can leave Threashers laden down with cider undetected.

Amazing CD packaging by Rethink...

A very very very quick posting, i couldn't resist it as this packaging is awesome! By Rethink.

Via The Serif

DamnSeaLegs...

Yeah i'm posting a recent piece of illustration for a show in sheffield soon. Call it shameless self promotion, I call it sharing some love with you all...

Also this awesome site and all of its content has been updated...wow.

Max Lamb...

I came across Max Lambs work on ItsNiceThat. There is alot of very average furniture design work on there, and there is alot of really really great work and concept based stuff too.

Top 10 most influential design bloggers...

Blog site Home Rejuvination have issued a top 10 most influential design bloggers list. I'm not sure why they chose to do bloggers rather than blogs, probably to keep the big hitters like Core77 and Tough Guys Love Pink out. Its interesting though, some good sites there including MoCo Loco and Design Sponge.

VW Eos

A real clever ad for the Volkswagen Eos. Don't get me wrong I'm not bothered about the car but VW have some great advertising. Saw it here on one of my fave blogs, if only they updated it more often...

Potato cutlery

Saw this on here, its cutlery made from 80% potato starch and 20% soy and is totally biodegradable. Its unfortunately double the price of plastic cutlery currently but its a great alternative and the price will eventually come down. It can even be washed and reused multiple times. But surely isn't stainless steel cutlery still best for the environment?

WWF Paper Dispensor...

A while back I saw a video of a billboard that WWF created that cast a shadow throughout the day to illustrate the rising ocean levels. This is pretty similar but instead displaying how every time you use a paper towel the South American forests are depleting. Very very clever stuff again...

Mobile Phone//Projector Mashup

This is a concept phone from Stefano Casanova, so in real-life it may end up much bigger. It's not the first idea for incorporating a projector into a mobile but it's the best attempt I've seen so far. Removing the need for a screen is particularly neat.

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Porsche Design take on the iphone.

Porsche design have revealed their attempt at a competitor to the iphone by releasing the P'9521. With a machined aluminium block body, two mineral glass sheet screens and a spec to rival any current mobile phone they have created a nice product, however with a price tag of £800 I think I'll stick with my Sony Ericsson for now. www.mobileporschedesign.com/

Citroen 2CV 60's style...

To carry on my postings for online archives, here are some cracking graphics from 1960's Citroen 2CV brochures.

Sarah Sze...

Some really great large scale sculptures made from lots of mini things! Sarah Sze makes huge sweeping landscapes from everyday objects. Despite being things we see everyday, she manages to make them interesting and the kind of thing you could walk round for ages. I don't think the pictures quite do them justice on here so definately look at her website...

Alarm Clock/Internet Collision

Convergence knows no limits it seems. We've all been waiting for web enabled alarm clocks for so long now... Well, if you have Wi-Fi you can now take TGLP to bed with you for more intimate enjoyment courtesy of the Chumby. This soft rubber and leather clock-thing has a 3.5" touchscreen, usb ports, stereo speakers and an i-pod connection (of course). It also comes with some random/unecessary 'charms' that can be attached to the thing if you feel the need. It's not out yet so keep your powder dry if you can.

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It's a wrist watch... and a phone, and a camera, and an mp3 player...

Hyundai may not produce the hottest looking cars but they sure can cram a lot of stuff into a watch. This guy, the W-100 is 1.3 Mega-Pixie Camera, an MP3 Player, a Phone, it has a touch-screen, it has bluetooth, oh and it also tells the time. It doeasn't even look that massive. Let's hope it also has a stopwatch so you can also track how many seconds the battery lasts.

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Seal in the freshness

Don't know much about this company Oliso, apparently they are based in San Francisco and reckon they believe in "user-driven design" not sure how true this is but I thought this was a cool little device. Turning an age-old food packaging system into something that can now be done at home they have created the Frisper Freshkeeper. The neat product allows you to vac pack your food to preserve freshness. Check it out at Oliso

Computing's Top-Ten Uglies

PC World have issued a top-ten of the ugliest things in the history of computing. These guys should know their onions when it comes to computing, but are they arbiters of taste?? Well, it appears that unsurpisingly the answer is no. Microsoft earn themselves two entries with the admittedly butt-ugly windows 1.0 (pictured above), and the questionable inclusion of Zune. The most outrageous inclusion has to be the Osborne 1 (also pictured) which is just a classic slice of antique tech. Look at the typeface! marvel at the massive disk drives! and get all protective over it's tiny little monitor - bless. PC World, shame on you.

Craft Design Technology....

I saw these scissors in Wallpaper magazine a long time ago winning an award along the way, but i went on the website and Craft Design Technology really do just do stationary. Its focussed, but what a focus! Some really nice products on there...

Misplaced Manhole Covers...

The images aren't really big enough on this strange but funny site, but a whole set of photos of Misplaced Manhole Covers is a great idea. I'll be honest, i'm really not observant enought o have noticed!

ReForm School Design Store...

I didn't realise that ReForm School was a design store until i started roaming around it, but i was drawn in by the website, there is a load of subtlety and movement on there and all really lo-fi looking. The website was designed by these guys who have got a great site too, and have done loads of others.

Peepshow Collective...

The already huge and amazing Peepshow Collective are going from strength to strength right now, with new design work on their website, which is a really, really nice site! The images above are by two of the UK's best illustrators right now, Andrew Rae and Luke Best

The Future of Digital Radio

A couple of blazing hot concepts for digital radios from everyone's favourite design agency. One is is for the the young un's and one for the old folk. Yes, the market is polarised and this is how ame design deal with that.

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Dream door

Saw this picture and it reminded me of Dave during a brainstorm.

I could imagine having one of these in the guest bedrrom of my flat, allowing me to use it for more than just a bed store.

via treehuger via pan-dan