48 Mind-Blowing Ideas and Designs
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
Very cool and unexpected sources of inspiration – someone spent a lot of time on this post – thanks!
cool
Excellent series! (and thanks for the link)
these are great! thanks for this post!
Yes, great Post, and some good links to keep.
Thanks
Fred
Great post! Fantastic ideas in there. :D
Wow, sick collection of designs! Thanks!
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 :)
12, 13 and 14 – awesome. Thanks.
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 :)
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.
i am imress with ….
32.Stop Haunt Me Everyday Collection
You spelt photography wrong, not sure if it was intentional?
Great Work, Keep it up… We need to see a lot of Topics from you,
Greetings, from Egypt
nice list.some of them are even funny:)keep it up
Ronald
It is really mind-blowing. =) Thank you for good set!
I love the bike, very inventive, thanks for the inspiration
I’ve actually had somebody give me the Dodge ‘Em game… brought memories of elementry school flooding back. Also, that windex ad – brilliant.
Hey, thanks for this little feature ;)
That hacked USB drive is just asking for someone to throw it away.
Nice Stuff.
Some of them us really amazing.
Nice Stuff.
Some of them is really amazing.
Wow!!!!
Amazing stuff…
Thanks
nice collections…
These are super cool designs.
a very interesting and progressive post
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.
Lovely list and very amusing! Thanks for sharing!
Cool, I love the lunch bag ;)
really cool stuff, well done.
Great collection,
I really enjoyed looking through these..
http://www.icomcreative.com
very inspirational. :)
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)
Thats a great collection
wow, awesome collection. – #39 is my favorite, that is classic!
There are some great designs and photos! Inspirational!
Really a wonderful Collection…
Great work ever :)
Very interesting – some great work. Thanks for the collection!