People who know me will understand why I have done this post. Those who don’t know me that well; despite my obsession of finding you the weirdest creative shit on the interweb, I studied Marine & Freshwater Biology at Uni(!).
Almacan, aka Kazuhiko Nakamura is a 3D surreal artist I found whilst perusing Deviant Art. I really liked his eye for detail and all the inner workings of the head seemed so realistic to me.
Blu Bottle combines a superb innovative design with mechanical processes and doesn’t require any high tech electronics or reliance on batteries to perform. By using the most underused source of energy in the world, the human energy, this bottle can harness the user’s kinetic energy via a manual pump, various pressure chambers and valves. Blu Bottle contains a coolant unit and sudden release in pressure on that unit results drop in temperature, therefore generating drinkable condensation. This compact and versatile bottle is best for using in remote areas, relief/aid purposes and personal or outdoor use.
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Natural, versatile, environmentally-friendly cork is mainly used for stoppers on <a href=”http://En Derin.com/2009/04/09/61-exceptionally-creative-wine-label-designs/”>wine and champagne bottles but its unique properties also lend a unique character to artistic endeavors. These 25 examples show how creative minds have beautified the world with cork – drinking is optional.
Cork & Driver
(images via: Cork Truck and Donnha)
Why would you want to cover your truck in corks? Better yet, why WOULD’NT you? Cork is naturally impermeable and water resistant – there’s a reason it’s used to seal bottles, after all. As for the Cork Truck, owner Jan Elftmann didn’t actually drink 10,000 bottles of wine to get the corks which cover her truck; she saved them up while working for 13 years as a waitress at an Italian restaurant.
Chaise Lounge with a Chaser
(images via: Treehugger and Daniel Michalik)
Daniel Michalik used cork left over from commercial bottle-stopper industry to create this organic cork chaise lounge. Says Michalik, “I have discovered that when handled correctly, the natural flexibility of cork allows it to form fantastic, complex shapes no other material can match.” Michalik, who first presented his curvaceous creation at the 2006 HautGREEN contemporary sustainable design show, went on to explain that “The balanced form, along with the pliability of the material allows the user of this lounge to rock gently from side to side or on her back with a great degree of stability. The result is a sensation of floating, weightless and (being) totally supported.”
Cast Cork Kid’s Chairs
(images via: LILsugar and Branchhome)
Michalik makes other things from cork and cork manufacturing by-products, such as this cast cork lightweight kids chair. The 17-inch tall chair is composed of pure granulated cork sourced directly from bottle-stopper manufacturers and is held together using a non-toxic, eco-freindly binding agent. Kids, DO try this at home.
Soft as a Brick
(images via: Aya Koike)
Soften up interior spaces with Sofa Bricks. Designer Aya Koike created these handy cork bricks so home decorators could add a kinder, gentler look to their room decor. Available in a number of different shades, Sofa Bricks are flexible in more ways than one – mix & match them any way your artistic vision dictates.
300 Thousand
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There’s nothing spartan about the World’s largest Cork Mosaic being assembled cork by cork on the side of a Sheraton hotel by artist Saimir Strati. The corks – all 300,000 of them – are arranged in layers giving the piece a stunning 3D effect. Strati had no reply when asked what happened to the third of a million wine bottles… or their contents, which together would form a small wine-dark sea. Working with so many corks is no big deal for Strati… his previous projects included a portrait of Leonardo da Vinci made with half a million nails and a horse constructed from 1.5 million toothpicks. Pretty natty, Strati!
Chinese Carved Cork
(images via: Renfro’s and G&Z Wholesale)
Intricately detailed scenes laboriously carved from cork by skilled craftsmen have been a fixture of Chinese art and a favorite of Western collectors for many years. Sometimes framed and set against a colored background, the delicate and fragile carvings are more often sandwiched between glass to highlight their three-dimensional character.
Coat of Many Corkers
(images via: Travel Webshots, Green + Gleam and Jim Ernstsen Jr.)
Due to its impermeability and low density, cork has traditionally been used in flotation devices such as life jackets. The cork jackets above break with tradition style-wise though they’re undoubtedly waterproof.
Pets Control
(images via: Renfro’s and Uncommon Goods)
We often celebrate weddings, business deals and other special occasions with a bottle of vino or something sparking. Those are the corks you WANT to save, and Cork Pets help you do just that. Lori Strickland designed these perky pets, carefully cast in pewter using the age-old lost-wax method and polished to a warm glow.
Das Korkart
(images via: Recycleraccoon and Artshift)
Gabriel Wiese is a cabinet maker by training… wine cabinets, I’m guessing. How else to explain this fully functional suit of corks that Wiese has actually “test-driven” for Korkart in the streets of Saalfeld, Germany? Displayed at San Jose’s Natalie and James Thompson Gallery, Wiese’s cork coat is joined by a quite comfy looking cork easy chair and a snazzy end table.
(image via: Trendhunter)
Above is Wiese, either resting between projects or sleeping off one heck of a bender!
Frame By Frame
Cork art doesn’t get much better looking than these mahogany-framed compositions from Big Day, Big Moment. While many of the works feature attractive geometric arrangements of authentic wine corks, several combine corks with traditionally styled wine-country scenes.
(image via: Big Day, Big Moment)
And above are a few of the framed geometric cork arrangements, somewhat reminiscent of the complex engraved designs featured on old banknotes.
One of a Cork
(images via: One Of A Cork)
In closing, it only seems right to mention Steven Leslie’s online tribute to the artistic cork, One of a Cork. To quote Leslie’s and his sites’ mission statement, “This site is an online gallery displaying many of my latest creations within the medium of recycled wine cork. Here you will learn about the history of wine cork, how you can save the endangered specie that is wine cork and how you can own one of these spectacular acts of historical preservation.” Each one of Leslie’s cork-creations uses several hundred wine corks – except for La Courk Eiffel, which is constructed from exactly 4,425. Good on ya, Steven, you really are one of a cork!
Cherry is an innovative way of transportation concept which is neither a bike nor a bicycle but still can offer the similar functionality with more facilities. Inspired by the natural shape of Cherry, the front part of this concept is bigger since this is the motion producing part and the rear part is at the minimum dimensions which results comfortable ride and lighter and smarter outlook. This vehicle will offer you less energy requirement, strong performance, balance of three wheels, pleasure of motorcycle, adjustable driving position and customizable parts. It will provide you reduced maintenance cost because of the few and simple parts and zero emission and no pollution due to the plug-in batteries and electric motor.
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The need of space-use efficiency has directed the designers to many innovative concept products ranging from bicycles to full fledged cars. But folding skate board is quite an exceptional idea for user convenience, portability and space minimizing. The board is actually a combination of two parts connected with a clump at the middle. The combination of black upper surface with a led direction indicator and the white under surface has given the skate board a fabulous look. The movable rear wheel base will allow you to place the wheels in an organized way when you will fold the board. Foldable skateboard might look cool, but the real skateboarders don’t seem to agree with this idea.
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USB drives are the new age of data storage devices also known as Flash Drives. USB drives have substituted ancient floppy disks and CD’s because of its micro mini size and ability to take it any where; you can take this highly storage size device in your pocket.
Today, I am sharing with you some of the most unusual and creative USB flash drive designs which you would really wish you could have.
Many of the foremost masterpieces of design, art and technology have been created by those very special folks kindly (or unkindly) referred to as geeks, who just can’t seem to help inserting some geekiness into their creations. These 176 examples prove <a href=”http://En Derin.com/3d-light-geek-and-other-graffiti/”>the geek way of design, art and technology is often the great way.
20 Amazing Examples of Art from Obsolete Technology
No society in history has been so focused on consuming and, thanks to the rapid pace of innovation (along with a dash of Planned Obsolescence) we’re discarding our old tech at an equally rapid pace. Not every piece of obsolete tech ends up on the ash heap of history, however, thanks to creative minds who ignore the function and focus on the form. Click Here for more amazing examples of <a href=”http://En Derin.com/2009/04/17/20-amazing-examples-of-art-from-obsolete-technology/”>Art Made from Obsolete Technology
Extreme Urban Retro: 10 Creative Steampunk Designs, Modifications and Inventions
Steampunk art and design is a very special subset of geek culture that has succeeded in achieving braod-based appeal among everyday people who are bored with the slick, plastic, plain packaging so much of today’s technology seems to sport. Steampunk steps back… WAY back… to a time when tech was fresh, every part was unique and plastic had yet to replace gleaming brass, burnished copper and carved wood. Click Here for more examples of <a href=”http://En Derin.com/2007/11/11/extreme-urban-retro-10-creative-steampunk-designs-modifications-and-inventions/”>Creative Steampunk Designs, Modifications and Inventions
Brass Meets Bricks: 20 Steampunk LEGO Creations
‘Scuse me, you got LEGO on my Steampunk… no, you got Steampunk on my LEGO. Heyyy!!… now watch as two great geek obsessions combine to make something a whole lot better than the sum of their plastic parts. Click Here for more examples of <a href=”http://En Derin.com/2009/01/06/steampunk-lego-art-design-creations/”>Brass Meets Bricks: Steampunk LEGO Creations
Master Blasters: 15 Science Fiction Weapons to Die For
Don’t phase me, bro! Science fiction weapons from friction to phasers pop up (and pop off) in just about every rocket opera around. Forget “we come in peace”, when plying the star lanes it’s best to pack your peacemaker. Have gun, will travel… at the speed of light! Click Here for more examples of <a href=”http://En Derin.com/2009/04/07/master-blasters-science-fiction-weapons-to-die-for/”>Master Blasters: 15 Science Fiction Weapons to Die For
Knitty Gritty: 15 Works of Knit Art and Graffiti
Old-school grannies may have been satisfied with knitting homey samplers and tea cozies but face it – today’s oldsters were the juvenile delinquents of the post-war era. Well, maybe some were… the rest are just too school for school, especially those knit-wits who wield their needles in the pursuit of groovy geek art. Click Here for more Knitty Gritty examples of <a href=”http://En Derin.com/2009/02/06/knitty-gritty-15-works-of-knit-art-and-graffiti/”>Knit Art and Graffiti
15 Inspired and Innovative Wallpaper Designs
Getting bored just sitting there, watching the wallpaper peel? Try applying some wallpaper with appeal! Designers can really cut a rug when presented with a canvas as big as an entire wall, and if you think about it, the average room is four-sixths wall. Click Here for more examples of <a href=”http://En Derin.com/2008/11/07/15-inspired-and-innovative-wallpapers-of-the-world/”>Inspired and Innovative Wallpaper Designs
Redecoration of the Nerds: 15 Geeky Gadgets
While gadgets themselves are inherently geeky, some go the extra parsec to Full Geek-tard. If it’s true that “the bigger the boys, the bigger their toys”, then what can be said about geeky kids dreaming of a brighter, gadget-filled future? Best of all, while designers and engineers seek to satisfy the unique tastes of the growing geek market, regular-type folks like you & me can get our geek on as well. Click Here and witness the Redecoration of the Nerds with <a href=”http://En Derin.com/2008/12/15/geeky-nerdy-gadgets-fixtures/”>more Geeky Gadgets to complicate your life.
19 Gorgeously Geeky Pieces of Gaming Furniture
Game on! As computer & video games have grown in complexity, so has the need to spend more and more time playing them – as have a multiplayer multitude of aches & pains from cramped necks to “Wii Wrist”. Furniture designers can feel your pain, thankfully, and have responded by designing up gaming furniture so cool you may never want to leave their comforts. Time to call in the plumbers! Click Here for more examples of <a href=”http://En Derin.com/2009/01/23/19-pieces-gaming-furniture/”>Gorgeously Geeky Pieces of Gaming Furniture
13 of the Geekiest Home Entertainment Centers
Sometimes mere gaming furniture is not enough… or the budget is TOO much. If you’ve got both time and money to spend, then there’s virtually no limit to the level of COOL one can have in their home entertainment centers. Want to watch a Star Trek marathon from the Captain’s chair on a replica Enterprise bridge? Make it so!… and so they have. Click Here for more examples of <a href=”http://En Derin.com/2008/12/22/geek-home-theaters-entertainment-centers-accessories/”>Geeky Home Entertainment Centers
24 Kooky, Crazy and Creative Clock Designs
Time was, being a clock-watcher used to be a bad thing but not anymore. There’s no need to be ticked off nor be alarmed because these are two dozen clock designs you’re going to want to get your hands on and dial right in – and then go for seconds. Well, enough tick talk, there’s not a minute to spare and these <a href=”http://En Derin.com/2008/11/24/creative-modern-clock-designs/”>Kooky, Crazy and Creative Clock Designs await your perusal… yours, mine and hours.
Vernissage: 6:30pm – 8:30pm, 18 June 2009
Exhibition: 19 June – 18 July 2009
Venue: Main Gallery, 21 – 31 Old Bailey Street, Central, Hong Kong
THE MAN BEHIND THE CONCEPT OF “FREE ART”.
His works are composed by tearing up the cardboard material, then building them up in layers and stapling them together by hand. Adam Neate is celebrated for his mastery and technique over his medium, as well as for his complex layering and bold use of paint. Influenced by the concept of computer-aided design, Neate describes his creative process: “With cardboard it’s great because I can do a face and if its not right I can rip it in half and move it this way. It’s like a physical version of Photoshop where you’re literally moving layers, its more malleable and and has that distressed energy to it.”
For interview arrangements with the artist or the gallery director, or further information please contact Daniela Cavero.
Exhibition venue : Main Gallery, 21-31 Old Bailey Street, Central, Hong Kong
Opening Date : 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm, 18 June, 2009
Exhibition runs : 19 June 2009 -18 July, 2009
Contact Details : Tel +852-28698802
Fax: +852-25221528
www.schoeniartgallery.com
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The concept of Robot taxis include two seats and three wheels and have designed to ensure smooth public transportation system forever. This slick and compact robot taxis are very much look like a crane driver’s cab with only one uplifting door for passenger entry. These taxis will be available over the city and all of them will be always synchronized and aware of each other’s position. Passengers can jump in any of them at any place or pick the phone and order one, and reach their desired destination in no time. Other key features of this concept are ever-evolving, fully-optimized, always-self-adjusting, and superfluous public traffic system.
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