Design
Furniture from bikes
It’s a furniture for real bike lovers. Made from bikes. So you can not only drive your bike but also eat at bike and sit on bike. More at bikefurniture.com. So grab an inspiration and turn your old bike into .. let’s say – sofa.
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Ornamental Typography
At BibliOdissey is published nice collection of antique ornamental typography samples. Good for inspiration.
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What to do with beer bottles
Have a lot of empty beer bottles from weekend party and don’t know what to do? Here are just some ideas. Actually it’s advertising campaign of Italian beer brewery Nastro Azurro .
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Inspiring business card designs
I already posted some really creative business cards. And also n Mitnick’s “hacker-style” business card. are lot of more samples. Enjoy and rise your creativity.
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creative and interactive outdoor advertising
I hate advertisements. But there are some I love - creative ones. I have already posted a lot of them. But recently i fount pretty large collection of creative and interactive outdoor advertising.
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Not a lamp. Not a box.
Two nice lamp designs by Dutch designer David Graas made out of cardboard: NOT A BOX and NOT A LAMP:
Actually you can make something similar by yourself. Just get a cardboard box and a little imagination.
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Russian Roulette vodka liquor
Pretty interesting design concept. Russian Roulette is vodka liquor with strawberry - lime taste. It has 15% alcohol. Russian Roulette comes in 8 edged silver cardboard boxes that reminds revolver’s cylinder with one bullet thus making direct associations with notorious game.
There’s four shooters in one box. Drink it with four friends at the same time. [...]
When less is more
Sometime less can be more. Even in design. This simple packaging design samples in Japanese traditions are works of designer Mayuko Hari.
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Anti smoking ads
Here are some nice anti - smokiong posters / ads. Maybe not a very innovative idea still impressive, i think.
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Papercraft
Some nice examples of paper craft. Biggest part of these works are made just from one sheet of paper.
.gallery {
margin: auto;
}
.gallery-item {
float: left;
margin-top: 10px;
text-align: center;
width: 33%; }
.gallery img {
border: 2px solid #cfcfcf;
}
.gallery-caption {
margin-left: 0;
}
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