48 Mind-Blowing Ideas and Designs
- By Editorial
- Posted in DESIGN
- 38 comments
Over the last years designers came up with a number of interesting concepts which have somehow stuck between the prototyping stage and the production stage. Today we wanted to present innovative designs and concepts that give us an idea of what we should expect from designer’s creative mind over the years to come.
In this issue we provide you with over 48 fresh ideas to spice up your environment with a number of innovative gadgets, advertisements, product designs and concepts.
1. Hand-Made Art
Cory Doctorow of Boing Boing is getting a decoder ring to use as a wedding ring. This one has three rotating bands that can be lined up to decode secret messages. He’s now looking for a proper code.
2. Claire Coles
One-of-a-kind works of art, Claire Coles stitched cup and tea plate.
These great-tasting, ghoulish-looking cupcakes are a wickedly easy treat for a Halloween party!
“To make these sinister-looking cakes, you’ll need six 1 1/2-by-3-inch dome silicone baking molds, a medium pastry bag with coupler”.
2. Photography
5.Sisters
“Silver umbrella/speedlite above camera, speedlite diffused with a sheet of white paper below for fill, and plenty of gaffers tape.” What a cute idea!
“Zot is a red-phase western hognose snake. Has approximately the size of a pencil, and is about 4 months old. This was taken with a point and shoot digital fuji”
7.Source
Long exposure 30 seconds, located in a church in Ars en Ré, town on the “Ile de Ré” island.
8.Life
This is an amazing shot and the details are really good.
3. Advertisement
12.Seiko
14.Everybody wants to be a Dog
15.Chess Ace
16.Sharpie
19.Open your eyes to saturated fats
20.Foot Odour
21.Creative Advertising Ideas from Students
4. Art
24.Body Painter
28.Fausta
30.Vector Art
32.Stop Haunt Me Everyday Collection
5. Products
35.Hacked
“somebody just went and TORE MY FREAKING USB
CABLE IN HALF while it was still attached to my laptop! No —
wait — sorry. That’s just my USB flash drive.”
36.DODGE ‘EM- the desktop dodgeball game
37.Plush Plush
38.Bike
43.Reactable- Electronic music instrument
6. Architecture
46.Hydropolis, the world’s first underwater hotel.
47.The famous colorfull village on the sea
Buzzing Bees, 29 September 2008
Excellent series! (and thanks for the link)
Desserts, 29 September 2008
these are great! thanks for this post!
Brandon Cox | eGrace Creative, 29 September 2008
Very cool and unexpected sources of inspiration – someone spent a lot of time on this post – thanks!
Fred Klee, 29 September 2008
Yes, great Post, and some good links to keep.
Thanks
Fred
Michael Martin, 29 September 2008
Great post! Fantastic ideas in there. :D
Soh, 29 September 2008
Wow, sick collection of designs! Thanks!
Moni, 29 September 2008
I love it. This is extremely unique a great collection of amazing sources. Don’t mind what anyone says about originality Noura, you rock when you pull out posts as cool as this :)
joe, 29 September 2008
cool
Noupe, 29 September 2008
A large part of why I put this collection together was to evoke ideas on how designer’s creativity has no limit.
Thank you everyone for dropping your thoughts in the comments! I am glad you liked this post :)
Jeremy Newton, 29 September 2008
Awesome list. It’s amazing now seeing the quality of digital art and design within the last few years. It has changed a bit and it’s really cool to see.
Television Spy, 29 September 2008
You spelt photography wrong, not sure if it was intentional?
MaNshY, 29 September 2008
Great Work, Keep it up… We need to see a lot of Topics from you,
Greetings, from Egypt
NaldzGraphics, 29 September 2008
nice list.some of them are even funny:)keep it up
Ronald
GIN, 29 September 2008
It is really mind-blowing. =) Thank you for good set!
brainitup, 29 September 2008
12, 13 and 14 – awesome. Thanks.
kamleshkhatri, 30 September 2008
i am imress with ….
32.Stop Haunt Me Everyday Collection
The Floating frog, 30 September 2008
I love the bike, very inventive, thanks for the inspiration
SoLinkable, 30 September 2008
I’ve actually had somebody give me the Dodge ‘Em game… brought memories of elementry school flooding back. Also, that windex ad – brilliant.
detail24, 30 September 2008
Hey, thanks for this little feature ;)
EntityDesigns, 30 September 2008
That hacked USB drive is just asking for someone to throw it away.
DKumar M., 30 September 2008
Nice Stuff.
Some of them us really amazing.
DKumar M., 30 September 2008
Nice Stuff.
Some of them is really amazing.
Mike, 01 October 2008
Wow!!!!
Amazing stuff…
Thanks
kamlesh khatri, 02 October 2008
nice collections…
bangbouh, 03 October 2008
These are super cool designs.
JSHAW, 03 October 2008
a very interesting and progressive post
Jomo (Web Designer), 04 October 2008
I love this list of stuff. Awesome.
My favourite is number 10. I do a bt of photography myself and know how hard it is to get good shots of butterflies They rarely hang around long enough. great piece of work.
Thomas, 04 October 2008
Lovely list and very amusing! Thanks for sharing!
Tobi, 05 October 2008
Cool, I love the lunch bag ;)
ksng, 05 October 2008
really cool stuff, well done.
owain, 08 October 2008
Great collection,
I really enjoyed looking through these..
http://www.icomcreative.com
honour chick, 10 October 2008
very inspirational. :)
enoo, 11 October 2008
This is a really nice collection of links :)
But several of them are broken (well, they link to this page), especially on the Advertisement category (starting at #12)
Venky, 12 October 2008
Thats a great collection
penflare, 05 November 2008
wow, awesome collection. – #39 is my favorite, that is classic!
Bob Smith, 07 November 2008
There are some great designs and photos! Inspirational!
Siddharth, 30 June 2010
Really a wonderful Collection…
Great work ever :)
Steller Designs, 03 November 2010
Very interesting – some great work. Thanks for the collection!