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Top 12 Designs From Recycled Car Parts (SUPER GALLERY)
Before sending your car to the junkyard, you might want to reconsider salvaging some of the parts. The following 12 pieces of Trend Candy illustrate the recycled designs that can be created with old car parts.
Features is jewelery, fashion and home furnishing made from recycled tires, box springs, seatbelts, upholstery, hubcaps and more.
Instruments Made of Car Parts - Car Music Project for Ford (VIDEO) Recycling has spurred on such a huge movement for creative projects like these instruments… [More]
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The search for minimalism in design has produced a strikingly diminutive prototype scooter that, when folded up, is barely bigger than a beer bottle. The concept was sanctioned by BMW and the Mini Cooper from which it gets its colors, according to designblog, and is the brainchild of Swiss designer …[More]
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Samsung SDI, the Korean manufacturer’s display division, gives us a sneak peak into their upcoming AMOLED laptop designs with this strikingly stylish 12.1” prototype.
The prototype, which will be showcased for the first time next week at the Society For Information Display (SID) 2008 in LA, fe…[More]
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Matthias Pinkert conceived this “city car” where the lone passenger and driver stand in an upright position. The concept vehicle called The Slide is meant for the crowded, chaotic urban environment where parking spaces are priceless, albeit temporary, possessions.
Needless to say, it is also …[More]
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Combine cutting-edge gadgets and retro style with this awesome beyond words rotary, analogue style dialler iDial application for the iPhone.
In a clash of the past and present technologies, iDial utilizes the iPhone's innovative multi-touch capabilities with the ancient but cool dialler of analog …[More]
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Mark Harrison’s Husque houseware is really attractive. Fashioned out of Australian macadamia nut shells, The Australian designer uses a special compound to mold the shells and create very beautiful, colorful bowls and other tableware that make use of nuts, pods and organic shapes as sources of ins…[More]
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Well known for their sexy and creative coffee maker designs Nespresso gives us a peek at the future of coffee designs with the announcement of the winners of their second Nespresso Design Contest at an awards ceremony in Milan.
The four winning designs are:
First place: ”Untitled" by Brice Genr…[More]
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This spectacular bathroom sink is like a manifestation of the water falling into it. The wall-mounted 'Waterfall' sink, available in 30”, 40” and 60” versions, is made with a process called glass slumping. The vessels seem so delicate, when I first saw them I thought they looked like melting i…[More]
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Inspired by the Agave plant, a tropical cactus with distinctive fleshy-leaved flowers, new zealand born, london-based designer jeremy cole launched his promising design career with this beautiful Aloe lamps collection.
The Aloe collection includes three designs - the Bud, which represents the birt…[More]
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The BBQ-Donut is a floating party table. This invention is actually a boat with a very quiet, electric motor on board. It seats 10 people around a BBQ pit/table and includes a stereo system, coolers under the seats, and a sunshade above the rider's heads.[More]
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For self-confessed car freak Steve Heller, his love of 1950's Cadillac models inspired him to thread into the sphere of furniture design. Heller has built functional art such as chests, tables, bars, entertainment units, beds and dressers from metal and wood and the result of his efforts are really …[More]
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Other than a bowl of real, healthy fruit to eat, the fake fruit bowl as a decor item is so tacky most people would not contemplate having it in their homes. Even the better attempts at realism still fall far short of any artistic expectations. Until Anthony Biancaniello’s Art Glass Fruit, that is.…[More]
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When most of us think of stuffed animals, we think cuddly, cute, snuggly and lovable. For some designers have more twisted, less affectionate associations with the toys. Matt Kirkland tore open this series of stuffed animals to reveal the insides of them, showing what the inner workings of mechanica…[More]
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Inspired by the works of the artist Giger, designer Benjamin Wysk used Giger's amorphous forms as a biomechanical symbiosis in his Strobe watch design "to reflect there the person and the clock."
According to Wysk, the design, which is an entry in the Signity watch design contest 2008, is for peopl…[More]
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The Solid car was designed by Nikita Gutsalenko, a student at the Product Design and Transport Design at the Ural State Academy of Architecture and Arts, Russia. The aim of Gutsalenko's design is to help solve the issue of overcrowded parking spaces.
The concept car comes with the standard safety f…[More]
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Hardcore, New Finnish Design is presenting Noa Bembibre and her Glass Knives collection during New York Design Week 2008.
“Bembibre’s glass knives combine the very ancient roots of design – transforming rocks into tools – with innovative contemporary kitchenware design,” HardcoreDesign s…[More]
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Those with a modern sense of style and a dwelling to match will appreciate the 'Architect’s Bird Feeder' .
Architect Doug Patt designed the contemporary feeder out of bullet-proof polycarbonate. Why bullet-proof? I can only assume that the material’s clearness and durability was his rationale…[More]
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Designed by Charles Constantine, Memento is a wooden coffee table that can store books, magazines and other personal mementos during your lifetime. The design twist is that it also awaits your death to store YOU. As a bonus, an open casket is easily arranged with the conveniently removable top piece…[More]
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The Gownchair is a limited edition, luxury-priced, sculptural chair by Giorgia Paolini from the Paolini Design Store. Its flowing contours and strong visual impact will suit those with an appreciation of fashion, art and bold design.
It is handmade of fibreglass -- the production presentation on th…[More]
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While coffee is a universal drink, different cultures have different rituals and ways of drinking it. For example, while most people in New York City would have their coffee “to go” and drink it on the move, you’d be hard pressed to find the same in Paris, where the typical coffee drinking is …[More]
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Cognizant of the fact sailboats cause a lot of damage to the ecosystem, designer Max Koriath conceived the 3D Plywood Boat.
"By using a patented new process that applies a beech wood veneer to readily available plywood parts, this design gives you all the luxury and durability of more costly woods…[More]
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Having the appropriate lighting is one of the most fundamental parts of setting the right mood. BettyLou gets it just right, with their warm, bright and safe Wine Lights.
The wireless lamps, which are meant to be placed inside a wine glass, use lithium ion batteries which will provide that sensuou…[More]
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Now you can hide your data with this stylish Hardbox enclosure that looks like a hard cover book. In addition to keeping your desk looking more “educated”, you can hide the data on your 3.5 inch hard drive from prying eyes. This disguise would blend in too well next to your Harry Potter books.
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Finnish company Provoke Design, one of Nokia's main design contractors, has created three concept phones that represent their vision of mobile phone design in 2012. The prototypes will be on display at the HARDCORE New Finish Design exhibition in New York starting May 17th.
The three phone models …[More]
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Timex teamed up with One and Co. to design what they imagine could be desirable watches for the future. But not the short term future of a couple of months from now; the far future of 2154. Almost 150 years from now! Designers from more than 72 countries explored and visualized personal and portable…[More]
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Furniture is getting more sculptural and patterned motifs are present on the most unexpected materials and surfaces. Concrete Art is a good example. San Francisco-based 3D and visualization studio Transparent House presents its artistic vision for concrete, a classic flooring material.
They have c…[More]
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Takeshi Miyakawa's unique Fractal 23 design utilizes each and every inch of a cube by having a whopping 23 functional drawers. Suddenly that abstract and minimalistic-looking cube becomes much more exciting!
There are drawers on each side, which means you have to give it enough space if you want f…[More]
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Mobile ashtrays are ideal for the female smoker on the go who is conscientious about the environment... although she may not care about her lungs. This could well become the must-have of the year for the stressed out, chain smoking fashionista.
Designed by Keitai Hazara, the mobile ashtray comes …[More]
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The Verb for Shoe footwear was designed by MIT graduate Ronald Demon. The kicks are high tech sneakers that use two air balloons and a computer to automatically the adjust cushioning based on the activity of the wearer.
"The on-shoe computer is constantly monitoring the activities, adjusting the c…[More]
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Want to enjoy a spin on the Italian countryside on a perfect sunny day? Even better than whizzing along the cobblestones of Milan on a Vespa is heading to Japan to check out these awesomely modded scooters.
When it comes to doing something different, it seems you can always depend on the Japanese,…[More]
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