2 sides of the design spectrum

As I was going through some photos of the 2008 Design open I came across two wildly different takes on design. Here is one practical application of handbags:

And here is another completely artistic experiment of porcelain on balloons:

Its just interesting to see such different things at the same exhibit; i suppose thats why they call it the Design OPEN.

Go Tree Shopping

Literally you can take a shopping cart home with a tree in it now. Dutch architects NL created a forest of 100 trees planted in shopping trolleys at the Urban Play event in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Take a look at the moving forest:

Fireplaces

I posted in my other blog about interesting new fireplaces so this article from core77 immediately caught my eye. Core77 discusses how they're not sure this exactly goes along with the "fireplaces bring warmth into a space" thing, and I'll have to say it definitely makes it look different. I'm not sure I completely agree that all fireplaces remind us of warmth alone, but this one definitely makes me think of danger and not warmth....although the look pretty cool too.

One of my favorites....

With the Holiday season just about upon us we're bound to see some very interesting new ideas in the gift department. But giftcards?? I mean granted they're the fall back for any gift giver, but leave it up to Target to be innovative in the gift card area. As core77 reports, Target has now made a gift card digital camera. Starting at $50, you can accompany your money with 50mb worth of creative pictures. At 1.2mp you're not going to get a ton of quality, but it makes a gift card a whole lot more personal. Or maybe you're sill going for the orginal impersonal message of a gift card and you can just opt out of the camera card all together.

Ooo la la

Welcome to the Tender Tub....the most wonderful looking tub I have ever seen. I'm not sure if ergonomic is the right word, but this looks like it is perfectly made to be the most comfortable thing for the human body. This bring relaxing a hot bath to whole new level.