Ask any booklover or “bookworm” and he or she would tell you that there is no better feeling than holding books in the palm of your hands. Well, various designers took that concept quite literally, coming up with bookends that represent both the function of said items, and the passion one finds in books. Here are a few hand-inspired bookends that will definitely give you more incentive to keep on reading. Now, shelves will no longer look boring and plain, what with these “handy” (no pun intended) and unique-looking bookends.
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Logo Design for Fiori Flowers Design Philosophy

Fiori Flowers Design Philosophy is a flower shop chain which also sells products others than, well, flowers. Thus, there is a need for a corporate identity that is distinctly theirs.
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Bottle design for Terra Creta Extra Virgin Olive Oil

Terra Creta Extra Virgin Oil is extracted from premium olives from the orchards in Crete. Such a fine product deserves an equally fine packaging, and this bottle design for the olive oil reflects such excellence. Student Stefan Marjanovic is the creative genius behind this design.
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A new concept in car design – BMW’s GINA Light Visionary Model

Most of the concept cars churned out these days boast of being “more” or “better” in more ways than one. Sadly, some of them are all hype. Here’s a new concept for you: a concept car that is definitely worth our attention because the innovations it presents are ambitious, yet highly beneficial and ground-breaking, should it ever see the light of mass production.
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Graphical method: wanted snowboard to be different, unlike the others, something that would have fun and be memorable. From the point of view of graphic design snowboarding thing is simple. This elongated surface on which to apply image …. the main question, “What strike?” If you type in Google query about the design of  boards, you’ll see a lot of bright pictures, most of which are patterns and designs. We also wanted to have images emphasize the form that would have started up this and opened.

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Created with heat sensitive pigment, at first glance the On/Off Color Changing Sensitive Mug, looks like a standard black mug with big white letters that say “OFF”. Nothing fancy, but once you add the hot beverage of your choice, the mug changes color to white and in big black letters it states: “ON”.
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American designer Peter Bristol, who lives and works in Seattle and is currently a leading industrial designer in the Carbon Design Group, has created an impressive chair Cut.

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Salt and Paper Cell Shakers by Antrepo

If there is one kitchen item or utensil that merits a lot of attention because of their versatility when it comes to design, salt & pepper shakers would most likely be it. Many people have even turned collecting salt & pepper shakers into a hobby.
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Creta Springs

Ta.To., or Tommaso Taraschi of Athens, Greece, came up with the graphic design for the packaging and branding of Creta Springs Mineral Water. The design portrayed purity and freshness, sticking to the clears and blues of gems shaped like drops of water.
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Lytro – the world’s first camera that records the light field. It is unique in that it lacks focus, it is simply not needed. Filming takes place immediately without any training. These frames can be considered and treated after. In this focus area can be any image, even if it came out blurry.

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