Category Archives: cool stuffs

Giant ‘Mermaid’ Sculpture by Oliver Voss

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Tweet A man in a rowing boat floats near a ‘mermaid’ sculpture created by Oliver Voss on Alster lake in Hamburg in the late evening August 3, 2011. The four-metre-high sculpture dubbed “Riesen-Nixe” (grand mermaid) or “Badenixe” (bathing beauty) will be on display until August 12.         This sculpture attracts lots of…

Visual Expiration Date Labels

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Tweet Freshness Label by Designer Naoki Hirota. What this label does, as you can see, is change color over time. Once the meat (or other perishable product) is past it’s due, the label will have turned from white to blue, making the item unscannable. The label has one layer of info for the food with…

Google Map Envelopes

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Tweet This idea may bring some laughter to the postal employees.  Designers Rahul Mahtani & Yofred Moik from the Industrial Design program at Syracuse University came up with this concept called Google Envelopes. Wouldn’t it be great to be able to map the course of mail and how it can tell a story of distance…

Deform-able Packages

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Tweet It seems a box is always too big or small so designer Patrick Sung came up with flat sheets of recyclable corrugated cardboard called the Universal Packaging System or UPACKS. The patterns make it easy to fold and conform to almost any shape while maintaining structural rigidity and protecting the contents. Love the idea…