The House-Lamp by Lauren Daley

It is a house lamp, in more ways than one.

This lighting fixture is named for its function and its design. The House-Lamp is a lamp that can be used around the house and takes the form of a house. Confused yet? Don’t be. Lauren Daley, an architect from San Francisco, California, came up with this distinct collection of house lamps that can be easily assembled by hand. Made from high quality wood with a charming finish, this creative lamp will surely be a worthy addition to any room of your home.

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Biophilia Collection designed by Ross Lovegrove

VONDOM is known for effectively and elegantly combining technology with functionality in its uniquely-designed and avant-garde products, which range from indoor and outdoor furniture, pots, lamps, and the like.

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My Olive Tree Packaging

Extra virgin olive oil has been gaining a lot of ground recently, what with various countries coming up with their own variations of the product. However, it’s not just the quality of the product itself that draws the attention of users from all over the world.

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This model has been made to order by the mobile operator – Virgin Mobile. The model contains 2 GB internal memory, 512 MB RAM, 5 megapixel camera, WVGA display, 1400mAh battery, A-GPS, WiFi, Qualcomm MSM8655 processor and HDMI output, the supported operating system is Android Froyo. An Information about the price and release is still missing.
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Packaging for Carmi Olive Oil by Sereal Designers

The Greek-produced Carmi Olive Oil has a new look, this time by Sereal Designers. Clearly, from the photo above, one could glean the inspiration of this packaging design: the earth and nature: the source of this extraordinary extra virgin olive oil.
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London’s Cypriot studio SuperNova Studio, has created a stunning interior design for the boutique Kokoo in Nicosia. Among the elements of the decor, the giant golden egg, with sticking out human legs ,a blue rooster with shelves and hangers, umbrellas instead. Surrealism in the service of a consumer society.
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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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The Optimus Popularis Keyboard

What would make you spend more on a keyboard than you normally would? Simple: a superior one. Even simpler: one designed and created by Art. Lebedev. The Optimus Popularis keyboard, to be more precise.

Ever since word got out about the Russian design company coming out with “a million keyboards in one”, there were a lot of mixed reactions, especially when it seemed that the product would be worth more than $1000. Why, that is even more that what one would normally pay for a computer! However, there are a lot of reasons why the Optimus Popularis is going to be worth every cent of its $1000+ price tag.

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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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