Freshpilot: Posts in the Design category

Posts in the Design category:

Volkswagen Buggy Up! Concept

Volkswagen presented the Buggy Up! concept car at the 2011 Frankfurt Motor Show. Based on the new Up! city car it’s a new take on the beach buggies that emerged in California during the ’60s. It sports a completely waterproof interior, neoprene covered seats, an iPod-powered infotainment system, 18-inch alloy wheels and a lightweight construction with extensive body reinforcements. To compensate the lack of roof and doors there’s a roll bar behind the two seats.

Oh, and since it’s a proper beach vehicle it sports specially designed floor drains to get rid of water.

There’s no word on wether this car will actually make it to production, but I sure hope so.

Read on for more pictures!

Posted by TG October 5th 2011 | 1 comment » | Link to this post

Tags: Nooka

Design, Style, Watches

Nooka Zub 40 Watch

New York-based fashion design company Nooka has revamped their Zub Zoo watch, dubbing the new one Zub 40. The Zub 40 is available in black, red, white and charcoal/green and interchangeable bands in the same colors, allowing you to customize it a bit more. Simple and stylish. Anyone else getting a LEGO vibe?

Buy @ Amazon.com: Nooka Zub Zoo 40 ($100)
Product page: Nooka

Posted by TG September 30th 2011 | 5 comments » | Link to this post

Tags: fish, for the pets, glass

Design, Furniture, Lamps and Clocks, Home, Style

Gaia + Gino Fishscape Fishbowl

If you’re going to keep goldfish you ought to do it in a Fishscape Fishbowl, designed by Aruliden for Gaia and Gino. While holding 2.5 gallons of water the textured interior landscape looks good for both viewers and, presumably, the fish.

It’s a limited edition product though, so if you want one you better be there when it’s launched October 5th.

Gessato.com: Fishscape Fishbowl ($140)

Posted by TG September 21st 2011 | Leave a comment » | Link to this post

Tags: Babini, Danny Venlet, desk

Design, Furniture, Lamps and Clocks, Office, Style

Banini GoggleDesk

This is the GoggleDesk by Italian furniture manufacturers Babini, designed by Danny Venlet. Just pick and choose between glossy and matte finishes (you can have the inside matte and outside glossy as well, or vice versa) and a bunch of contrasting colors if white or black is too modest for you.

Product page

Babini GoggleDesk by Danny Venlet

Posted by TG July 1st 2011 | 1 comment » | Link to this post

Tags: art, For the wall

Design, Furniture, Lamps and Clocks, Gadgets, Home, Style

FRAMED*: A Platform For New Art Forms

Framed: A display / platform for new art forms

Here’s FRAMED*, a “platform for new art forms” conceptualized by Tokyo based interface designer Yugo Nakamura of tha ltd. Did I hear you ask “Well, isn’t it just a flat screen TV?”. No, it’s more than that. It’s a display acting as a frame for visual art, which you can then just either let animate on its own or interact with using, say, your iPhone. Since there’s a microphone, camera and stereo speakers (+ wireless audio transmitter) built into it as well I’ll just assume there’ll be some highly interactive things created for it, art reacting to its surroundings.

It’s 37.4 x 22 inches big and 1.3 inches deep, containing a 40" Samsung LED Full HD display. Underneath the hood you’ll find an Intel Core i5 based machine running Windows 7 supporting Adobe Flash, Processing, openFrameworks and Cinder. Add WiFi, Bluetooth and a USB connectivity to that and you’ve got something that might just be able to create something more interesting than a regular poster.

FRAMED* is not available for purchase just yet, but follow them on Facebook or Twitter to stay updated.

Check out the video:

More images:
Framed: A display / platform for new art forms

Framed: A display / platform for new art forms

Posted by TG May 9th 2011 | Leave a comment » | Link to this post

Tags: AirPlay, Philips, wi-fi

Audio, Design, iPad, iPhone, Style

Philips Fidelio SoundSphere Docking Speakers With AirPlay

Philips Fidelio SoundSphere AirPlay Speakers

Philips has just announced a new set of stylish iPhone/iPod Touch docking speakers dubbed Fidelio SoundSphere. Besides allowing you play through your docked device it sports Apple AirPlay as well, so you can hook up your Mac or PC running iTunes or iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch without any ugly, cluttering cables. Just Wi-Fi bliss.

“The amazing sound quality of the Philips Fidelio SoundSphere docking speaker lies in its design. The curved design of the separate speakers with their unique free-floating tweeters on top of both speakers mean Philips Fidelio SoundSphere delivers sound in all directions for a deeper and wider audio impression with minimized interferences.”

The Fidelio SoundSphere docking speakers will be available for purchase around May 2011 to a retail price of 799 EUR (about 1,110 USD).

Philips Fidelio SoundSphere AirPlay Speakers

Posted by TG March 8th 2011 | 1 comment » | Link to this post

Tags: Megawing, notebook

Design, Home, Office, Style

Armed Notebooks by Megawing

Pick your weapon: grenade, knife or revolver. Here’s the Armed Notebooks, a series of black notebooks with a slightly aggressive appearance by Taiwanese design group Megawing. Each feature a key ring on the front and different lines and patterns on the inside.

Generate: Armed Notebook ($25.00)

Posted by TG March 2nd 2011 | Leave a comment » | Link to this post

Tags: Nooka

Design, Style, Watches

Nooka Zub Zayu Watch

Nooka just revealed the latest addition to their line of original timepieces, the Zub Zayu, featuring the largest display of the Zub models. “Sayu” is Japanese for “left and right” and this assymetrical watch can be worn on both left and right wrists. As with similar Nooka watches you read the time by counting the dots for the hours while the vertical bars shows minutes and seconds.

The Zub Zayu is available in four different colors: black, gray, yellow, purple/magenta and blue and besides regular time and date it has alarm, chronograph as well as a sleepmode to help conserve battery.

Link: Nooka.com: Zub Zayu (Preorder, $175)

(via Nooka)

Posted by TG November 4th 2010 | 1 comment » | Link to this post

Tags: Frends, headphones

Audio, Design, Gear & Wear, Style

Frends Headphones

Tired of wearing the same white earbuds as everyone else? Frends, a group of friends that started out as a snowboard crew that expanded to a company, has launched a collection of headphones with a whole lot more unique style to them, dubbed the Classic, Alli, Coupe and Clip. It’s not all the available colors shown below so head over to their website to check them all out. Besides the colors I’m a big fan of the fabric cord to alleviate tangle, small detail that makes a difference.

There’s no word on pricing yet though.

Frends: Product overview

The Classic:
Frends Headphones: The Classic

The Alli:
Frends Headphones: The Alli

The Coupe:
Frends Headphones: The Coupe

The Clip:
Frends Headphones: The Clip

(via coolhunting)

Posted by TG October 30th 2010 | Leave a comment » | Link to this post

Tags: bookcase, Malagana Design, storage

Design, Furniture, Lamps and Clocks, Home, Style

Equilibrium Bookcase

This is the Equilibrium Bookcase by Malagana Design. Stunning!

“With its cantilevered modules stacked upon each other at a single angled point, Equilibrium is a unique furniture piece that immediately catches attention by creating a sense of amusement and surprise.”

It might look fragile but it can hold more than 120 lbs (54 kg) worth of weight and it’s available in three different colors as well as natural walnut veneer. No word on pricing though.