Lacie MosKeyto

Posted: September 6th, 2010 | Author: Simon Mitchell | Filed under: Gift ideas, I Want..., Product Design | Tags: , | No Comments »

Storage doesn’t get much smaller than this surely? Nice. Buy yours here.


Ciclotte

Posted: September 3rd, 2010 | Author: Simon Mitchell | Filed under: Product Design | Tags: | No Comments »

A ‘designed’ exercise bike. Nice. Introducing the Ciclotte.


Guidelines – Fredrik Roije

Posted: September 1st, 2010 | Author: Simon Mitchell | Filed under: I Want..., Product Design | Tags: | No Comments »

Nice. Very. Click here to learn more.


The Shanghay Chair

Posted: August 27th, 2010 | Author: Simon Mitchell | Filed under: I Want..., Product Design | Tags: , | No Comments »

Liking this very Copenhagen collaboration between Kibisi, Wood Wood and Hay. A trip down to Hay is most certainly on my agenda.

The chair was already selected by Wallpaper* magazine as one of the 100 best designed products of 2010. Nice.


Toy Lamp by Ryan McElhinney

Posted: August 5th, 2010 | Author: Simon Mitchell | Filed under: Art, Product Design | Tags: , | No Comments »

Liking. See more of Ryan’s recycled work here.


Kevin Scott’s Collapsible bendy bicycle

Posted: August 4th, 2010 | Author: Simon Mitchell | Filed under: Bikes, Product Design | Tags: , | No Comments »

Nice idea from recent runner-up in the Business Design Centre New Designer of the Year Award, and De Montfort University graduate, Kevin Scott.

via ThinkBigChief (thanks).


We are Family Sofabed

Posted: August 4th, 2010 | Author: Simon Mitchell | Filed under: Furniture, I Want..., Nice idea, Product Design | Tags: | No Comments »

Liking this practical spare bed concept designed by Danish duo Claus Molgaard and Ole Jensen.

via ThinkBigChief (thanks).


Clown Nose

Posted: July 6th, 2010 | Author: Simon Mitchell | Filed under: Product Design | Tags: | No Comments »

Liking this range of ceramics by Swiss designer Tomas Kral.

Via Think.BigChief (thanks).


Baby’s original hand & foot print stamp

Posted: May 26th, 2010 | Author: Simon Mitchell | Filed under: Product Design | Tags: | No Comments »

I received an email earlier asking me to feature this cute little idea, all the way from Japan. Created by Rezon, your babies foot or hand print is reproduced creating individual print stamps.

Click here for more info, or to buy.


Daily Stack

Posted: May 25th, 2010 | Author: Simon Mitchell | Filed under: Great idea, Product Design, Productivity | Tags: | No Comments »

A really nice project created by Copenhagener’s Sebastian Rønde Thielke and Anders Højmose during a three week Tangible User Interface exploration at the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design. Daily Stack is a playful tool that helps you become more aware of your daily work-flow and time management by creating a physical representation of your tasks.

Great stuff, I could certainly find a use for one of these myself.


Bucchero – Siba Sahabi

Posted: May 22nd, 2010 | Author: Simon Mitchell | Filed under: Product Design | Tags: | No Comments »

Early this week the talented Siba Sahabi tracked me down and asked me whether I woud mind featuring he latest set of paper vessels, titled bucchero.

And so over to Siba to explain in her own words a little about the project:

“Bucchero” comprises nine pieces – carafes, goblets and cups – which are hand-crafted from black wallpaper used for its strength and resistance to light,  taking inspiration from characteristic black Etruscan ceramics.
The Etruscan was a folk that lived 800 to 100 B.C. in the Toscana. Their so-called Bucchero ceramic is black because the pottery was fired in an atmosphere charged with carbon monoxide instead of oxygen. This technique is known as “reducing firing” and leads to a shiny metallic look. The Etruscan imitated oriental metal works that were imported from Cypress and Phoenicia (modern day Lebanon and Syria). In this means Western knowledge of porcelain production was combined with Eastern sense of aesthetics. For me that is a beautiful example of how one culture has influence on another one leading to renewal and cultural richness. My intention is to make a link between history and presence, emphasizing the ongoing importance of cultural melting pots.
Not only jave I had the pleasure of sharing these, but I will be finding out whether any of them are available to buy.

“Bobble” Filtering Water Bottles by Karim Rashid

Posted: March 19th, 2010 | Author: Simon Mitchell | Filed under: I Want..., Nice idea, Product Design | Tags: , | No Comments »

A nicely designed, good idea, the Bobble filters your tap water as you use it. Available here now if you are in the U.S. coming soon to the rest of the world though. Designed by Karim Rashid.


Letter Bench

Posted: October 5th, 2009 | Author: Simon Mitchell | Filed under: Nice idea, Product Design, Typography | Tags: | No Comments »

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Very, very nice outdoor seating at a hospital in Bristol. The concept of the bench is in the format of a folded postcard from an actual letter sent by a patient who stayed at the hospital. The idea is to reassure new patients about the experience they will have during their stay.

Made by Boex from hardwood, letters hand carved supported on a stainless steel frame.
Size 2500mm wide x 900mm high.


Yu Hun Kim – Reading Tray

Posted: October 5th, 2009 | Author: Simon Mitchell | Filed under: Nice idea, Product Design | No Comments »

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I came across the above piece of product design niceness over the weekend. A simple but nice idea, currently only at a conceptual level at the moment it appears. Click here to see more from its designer, Yu Hun Kim.


O.R.B.

Posted: September 3rd, 2009 | Author: Simon Mitchell | Filed under: Product Design | No Comments »

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An interesting concept available in 2010, a ‘wearable’ bluetooth head set, that can be folded down to a ring to wear upon the finger.

The concept is of particular interest to me having previously worked for 18 months on a large hearing instrument client.

On more than one ocassion whilst in the process of creative brainstorming, I tried to look into the future, to a place where, as what has happened with glasses, the commonality of people wearing considered and desireable bluetooth ear pieces, could maybe one day help eradicate the enormous stigma around (having) to wear a hearing instrument.

Still an enormous stigma to break, but the more I see of products like this, the more I think that maybe one day wearing something on your ear could be cool. Just a thought.


Qlock

Posted: July 12th, 2009 | Author: Simon Mitchell | Filed under: Product Design | Tags: | No Comments »

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I really want one of these. Very, very nice. Here.


Factron Quattro For iPhone

Posted: July 8th, 2009 | Author: Simon Mitchell | Filed under: Product Design, iPhone | Tags: , | No Comments »

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A pretty heavy looking iPhone case, but liking the range of bolt on lenses, ranging from a fish eye to wide angle and macro.


E-Pod dock

Posted: March 24th, 2009 | Author: Simon Mitchell | Filed under: I Want..., Product Design, iPhone | Tags: , | No Comments »

Purely a piece of concept design at the moment, but the projector function would certainly have me interested if it ever sees light of day… Read more here.


Marc Newson -ikepod

Posted: March 15th, 2009 | Author: Simon Mitchell | Filed under: I Want..., Product Design | Tags: , | No Comments »

POsting my last Marc Newson, set me thinking how I have desired an ikepod for nigh on 17 years now. Infact the original orange and white version I lusted after in the early 90′s seems to have been superceeded by the one shown above. Still, pretty damn nice. See more here. Unsurprisingly quite a nice, clean simple site as well.


Marc Newson – Qantas A380 interiors

Posted: March 15th, 2009 | Author: Simon Mitchell | Filed under: Product Design | Tags: | 1 Comment »

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Australian design god, after designing the recent Qantas First Class lounge at Sydney Airport, has put his talented hands to the interiors of Qantas’ new A380′s.

Very very nice.