 International Eco-Cities - Singapore and China Team Up for Tianjin::The construction of Tianjin, an eco-city developed by China and Singapore, has just broken ground. The 30 square kilometer site will eventually house 350,000 people in an effort to balance active commerce… [MORE] |
 Retro-Modern Masterpieces - Dupli Casa Blends Past and Future::Most contemporary modern architects raze any traces of old infrastructure when creating a new home design; J. Mayer H. let the original building's footprint inspire him when he designed Dupli Casa.
Dupli… [MORE] |
 Eco Skyscraper Makeovers - Sears Tower Gets Greener::One of Chicago’s most recognizable landmarks, the Sears Tower, is set to receive an eco-friendly makeover. The skyscraper has already cut its energy usage in half, but plans are in the works to utilize… [MORE] |
 Cassette Tape Canvases - Sami Havi's Eco Art::In today's age of all things digital, some might say cassette tapes are out. Sami Havia, a Finnish artist, might make you think twice about that. Havia puts visually stunning pictures onto cassette tapes,… [MORE] |
 Branded Big Cat Bikes - The Panther Motorcycle::Artist, cat lover and custom chopper designer Byron Hemmes has made an awesome black panther bike. Yep, he put a giant fiberglass puma on top of a motorcycle frame, painted it black and wants just $567,000… [MORE] |
 DIY Wooden Cameras - The Canon DSLR Mock-Up::This is a wonderful, very detailed wood mock-up of a Canon DSLR camera. The type of material used is called balsa wood, which is a very light but strong kind of wood which can be carved and molded very… [MORE] |
 Blogs That Worship Punctuation - Ampersand Addiction::An ampersand is a scribal abbreviation for the word “and,” derived from the Latin word “et” (which are also my initials).
Someone out there really likes the amperes and thinks “”it is often the most attractive… [MORE] |
 34 Multitasking Designs::You might think that home decor involves adding things--a piece of artwork, wall color, a window treatment--but when the task is also home organization, subtraction is the guiding principle to follow.… [MORE] |
 Mosaics Made of Fruit - Artistic Apple Installations::These imaginative and funky art pieces were created for the annual Apple Festival in the southern Swedish city of Kivik. The creative force behind these fruity mosaics is Helge Lundstrom.
Lundstrom used… [MORE] |
 Wooden Clothing - Fashionable Sculpture Carvings::These artistic wood carvings and sculptures are really amazing! The skill level, the high degree of precision and the attention to detail are really astounding.
My favorite sculptures among the 10 shown… [MORE] |
 Pimped-Out Bicycles - The Scraper Bike::Thanks to a group of teenagers who posted a music video about their creations on YouTube, scraper bikes are becoming a worldwide movement.
The video has attracted a cult following, with over 3 million… [MORE] |
 Pop Culture Cross-Breeding - My Little Storm Trooper and More::My Little Storm Trooper comes from the deviantART gallery user named Spippo. There are a number of particularly creative cross-breeds in the gallery--I love the Stars Wars ones in particular.
Other movie-themed… [MORE] |
 40 Refreshing Shower Innovations::Washing yourself just got a whole lot more fun with this cluster full of shower innovations. A particularly popular theme, to no one's surprise, is water conservation, but there are also a number of luxury… [MORE] |
 Gaudy Luxury Instruments - The Kuhn-Bosendorfer Piano::Proving once again that money can buy you ugly things that make beautiful music, the Kuhn Studio has collaborated with Bosendorfer to make a truly unique piano.
Kuhn uses cold glass that is cut, and… [MORE] |
 Architectural Nutrition Labels - 'Sustainability Facts' for Homebuyers::San Francisco-based architect Michelle Kaufmann is calling for ‘sustainability facts’ to benefit homebuyers, statistics that are essentially nutritional labels for houses as they pertain to energy efficiency.… [MORE] |
 Celebrity Dolls as Art - $3000 Angelina Jolie Doll::Noel Cruz took and ordinary doll and made a true Angelina Jolie look alike. By using his artistic talent, Cruz duplicated Angelina Jolie’s piercing blue eyes and her pouty full lips.
The doll is as seductive… [MORE] |
 Gaudy Mobile Phones - Over-Blinged Overseas Technology::What’s hot on the streets of Tokyo right now? Glammed-up mobile phones decorated with colored rhinestones in blingy designs which include faces, pets and wild retro patterns.
Whether you call it over-the-top… [MORE] |
 Unmanned Personal Rickshaws - Leg-Controlled Transportation for Seniors::The designer called this a bike. Bike? I say it’s a Shaw - a Rickshaw without Rick on the front pulling it. The concept is designed for senior citizens. Me. Yeah, me with a huge airhorn.
The functions… [MORE] |
 10 Photoshop Facial Mutilations - Picking Natalie Portman's Brain::Sebastian Niedlich (Grabthar) is an image manipulator of the twisted variety. Rather than the typical assortment of pictures from other artists, every piece in this gallery comes from Niedlich.
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 Gigantic Wedding Invitations - Poster Bride::Seattle-based Poster Bride is a two-person (Matt Terich and Tere Mendez) creative cyclone that produces poster-sized wedding invitations. They also make normal, A7-sized invites but, let's face it, nobody… [MORE] |
 Celebrity Star Wars - Victoria and David Beckham as Princess Leia and Luke::I love these celebrities as Star Wars characters, although it is strange as the Star Wars actors are actually celebrities themselves.
Of course, Bruce Willis as Princess Leia wouldn’t have flown in the… [MORE] |
 39 Unique DIY Products and Projects::Someone with a DIY mentality isn't content to buy a finished product that someone else has created; they'd much prefer to make said product on their own.
There's something innately satisfying about completing… [MORE] |
 Techie Dream Offices - YouTube Headquarters::At Trend Hunter, we've covered some pretty swank dot-com offices, but how do the executive minions at YouTube's corporate headquarters fare?
As you can see from the pictures, not bad at all. The space… [MORE] |
 Bizarre Eco-Friendly Buildings - The Glass House Reuses Embalming Fluid Bottles::Before the emphasis on sustainable architecture made it fashionable to use odd materials to build homes, people did it just to be different. Like the Glass House, for example, which is made from 500,000… [MORE] |
 Sinister Super Villains - Photoshopping Celebrities' Dark Sides::This Worth 1000 Photoshop contest challenged participants to make celebrities into super villains, and there were some particularly brilliant results.
Being from the UK, Prince Charles as a joker is just… [MORE] |
 Illuminated Eco Seating - Rough Diamond Chair Collection::The London Design Festival will soon feature British designer Lee Broom’s new Rough Diamond collection of illuminated chairs. His work will be on show at the Brick Lane Gallery.
What Lee Broom has done… [MORE] |
 Tattooed Laptops - Michael Dinges 'Dead Reckoning' Exhibit::"Dead Reckoning" is the name of Chicago-based artist Michael Dinges’ latest exhibition.
The items shown in this fascinating exhibit consist of engraved Apple laptops and brass recreations of historical… [MORE] |
 Humanizing Famous Portraits - Untooneds by Mataleone::Trendhunter has found some awfully good untooning trends. Here is the work of Mataleone, a Brazilian whiz at Photoshop. His unique work is in the humanizing of drawings and cartoon characters. By far,… [MORE] |
 Photos Converted Into Masterpieces - Canvas on Demand::Canvas on Demand is ranked 283 on America's 500 fastest growing Inc. list. Not bad at all. However, they may get higher in the ranks as being featured on "The View" sure has its advantages -- the search… [MORE] |
 Space-Age Bedroom Furniture - The Beam Bed::The Beam Bed can give any science-fiction enthusiast the feeling of sleeping on a spaceship. With strategically placed lights and lacquered wood board supports, one can easily fall for the illusion of… [MORE] |
 Swank Wine Stores - Alko in Finland::You might think that a state-owned wine store’s design doesn’t matter since it already possesses a monopoly; Alko in Finland, however, bucks that perception with their swank new decor.
Alko designers… [MORE] |
 Interchangeable Wine Glasses - Modular Wine Glasses by Sherwood Forlee::Sherwood Forlee's wine glasses unscrew at the top of the metal stem which then allows for easier storage of the glass portions. The user can also choose the right glass portion to fit drink choices.
The… [MORE] |
 Light Balancing - Stimuli 3.0 Lighting Reacts To Surrounding Light::Simply put, the Stimuli 3.0 Lighting System, by Chris Natt, is a smart light that reacts when indoor and outdoor light meet—throughout any given time of the day.
Natt describes the system as follows:… [MORE] |
 Remanufactured Art - Shifting Crap to Crafts::Remanufactured is the name of an exhibit to bring interest to the reusing of modern waste for crafts. From dissection (removing most of an item to reveal the art) to manipulation (weaving hair into intricate… [MORE] |
 14 Eco-Friendly House Mods::With these eco-friendly house modifications, any home can instantly become a bit greener, even on a budget. A 100% eco-friendly home is hard to come by, especially one that isn’t brand new. But with these… [MORE] |
 20 Fantastic Innovations In Wall Coverings::Wall covering made of paper, as opposed to the wallpaper most people equate with their computer screens these day, have taken a huge jump from the simple, just-hide-the-flaws-in-the-wall cover-up to becoming… [MORE] |
 Pop-Up Dining Rooms - Private Dining by James Plant::Imagine a dining room that unfolds, pop-up book style, from a depth of 17 centimeters, and you have James Plant's Private Dining custom collapsible dining set. The nondescript white doors open to reveal… [MORE] |
 Custom Fabric Designed By You - Spoonflower.com::Want custom fabric? I mean one-of-a-kind, design it yourself custom fabric? Check out Spoonflower.com.
You send them your specific design and lots of details as to what you want, and they will make the… [MORE] |
 Furniture That Molds to Your Shape - The Wave Seat::The Wave Seat is perfect for all those people afflicted by the ever-broadening buttocks phenomenon. We are all in search of the perfect seat, the perfect place to sit our seat, the beautiful butt stop.… [MORE] |
 Custom Caravans - The Mehrzeller RV::Since the Mehrzeller caravan made its debut earlier this week, the web has been a buzz with the RV concept. As we’ve previously mentioned, customization is one of the hottest design trends this year, and… [MORE] |
 Airplane Hotels - The Jumbo Hostel::If you’ve ever wanted to have a mile-high experience without leaving the airport, Oscar Diös’ Jumbo Hostel fits the bill. This hostel is made from a converted 747 formerly owned and operated by Transjet… [MORE] |
 70 Things You Can Customize::Customization and personalization have had huge influences on product design in the last few years. As globalization makes the distribution of products in the international market place easier, extremely… [MORE] |
 Custom Compact Car Art - 10 Weird Smart Car Graphics::Maybe it’s because the Smart Car just seems like a toy that there is a fascination with custom painting or wrapping the car to customize and personalize it.
Smart Car figured people that buy the compact… [MORE] |
 Remixed Renaissance Art - 10 Mona Lisa Parodies::Lunatica Desnuda recently compiled an amazing assortment of Mona Lisa inspired art. Shown here are just 10 of them as space allows.
On the blog are links and information on the many parodies of this… [MORE] |
 3D Textured Tiles - Impronta Ceramic Wall Tiles::Impronta's line of modern tiles make any wall scream to be touched -- even those outside the traditional tile-friendly realms of the bathroom and kitchen. The 3D designs are at once playful and dramatic,… [MORE] |
 Illuminated Benches - LightBench by Frellstedt::The LightBench is not just a novelty lighting design. It has a lighting function and can be used either indoors or outdoors. It could even be considered a work of art - a conversation or focal piece. The… [MORE] |
 Deconstructing Watches - Cool Classic Motorcycles Reconstructed::Some dude with a huge amount of talent and a bunch of old watches took a lot of time and imagination to recreate classic motorcycle styles from the watch parts.
It’s amazing how some minds work. Looking… [MORE] |
 Peelable Lightbulb Lampshades - Bulbcap::The Bulbcap is like tights for your naked light bulb. It is a sort of peelable lampshade. You can pull them over lightbulbs that don't exceed 40 watts in rating although there is no limit for economical… [MORE] |
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