The team at Design Barcode asked themselves, “Why has the barcode never changed?” That led to a flurry of amazingly creative ways to reinvent the ubiquitous set of black lines, helping companies add a little more personality to their valuable product real estate. They’ve created barcodes for major Japanese brands such as Suntory, Calbee, Wacoal and more.

Check out this interestingly named Hopside Down Beer Glass – it offers a totally different method for you to down your favorite beer, and all of these are unique in their own way in a sense that they are hand-blown, so you can be sure that no two on this earth are exactly the same. The Hopside Down Beer Glass features precision craft to exude a sense of class the next time you decide to entertain your guests at home. The double walled design will ensure your warm hands will not heat up the chilled beer, allowing you to enjoy ice cold booze the way it is meant to. The 7″ tall x 3″ (diameter) Hopside Down Beer Glass will retail for $19.99.

Designers Ufuk Keskin and Efecem Kutuk took space saving to another level with their “SheetSeat” which is made of plywood and can be flattened to a mere 3/4″ space. The concept of a chair folding up this small is a remarkable innovation in modern design thinking.

Real wood-working is an art form that dates back to the inception of furniture itself, and Jolyon Yates carries on the tradition in style. According to Yates his focus is to “display the soul by reflecting the care and honesty with which they have been conceived and crafted in a world of loveless volume manufacturing”. The Savannah Rocker molds carefully selected Birch Ply into outrageous shape to create this mastery in modern design and depart from “mass production” principles.

“Chair”

05/11/2009

 

 

CHAIR/CHAIR
“An inspiration from the American contemporary artist Joseph Kosuth, One and Three Chair. Instead of giving new definition, I redefined the concept of a chair by using alphabet. One is able to construct a chair by assembling the redesigned alphabets.”

ERIC KU

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jruiter Studio has designed a compact bicycle with no chain to be used in an inner city environment with minimal space.

Designers ended up rethinking what a “frame” meant, getting rid of basic key components, and creating a new type of bicycling that is more about fashion and culture than speed and performance