Banana Juice

Banana juice - Designed by product designer Naoto Fukasawa.

Amazing packaging design, it’s so simple - only the Japanese could pull something like this so perfectly.

This product and others are featured in the book Designing Design by Kenya Hara.

Local Motors - Miami Competition

Miami: South Florida Road Racer

$10,000 cash prize!

Submission Deadline: June 17, 2008

Whether it is cruising South Beach in a drophead on A1A, dragging musclers on alligator alley, drifting with the fast and the furious, tailgating with the Wide Right rabble-rousers at a ‘Canes game, handing over the keys to a valet at Coco Walk, or simply cruising down 95 for a little Joe’s Stone Crab, Miami is an auto enthusiast mecca.

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Sand & Birch Design Studio

Indsider team is presenting Sand & Birch Design Studio, on of our favorite. The products that come from this studio are products of elegant lines, made in modern materials with sophisticated look. Just like poesy of forms.

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ORB - bracelet watch

Interesting time piece with all over display lines that shows the current time. Design is simple and modern with use of hi-technology. Bracelet just like it should be, clean, shiny and with attitude. Girls will like it. This project is work of young and very talented Serbian designer, Djordje Zivanovic - Djo:Djo, currently student of industrial design on IAAD, Torino.

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GRAAL GLASS - International Design Contest

GRAALGLASS - Eighth International Design Contest Trieste Contemporanea

The competition deadline is June 10th, 2008. The entry is free.

The designers from 23 European countries are called to apply and submit a project for a new vessel for drinking to be made with the technique of glass blowing. The competitor may use inspiring principles and conceptions that refer to symbolic meanings of the Holy Grail.

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Sketching drill widget

Indsider team is happy to announce that first beta version of Sketch Counter Widget is deployed and ready for download.

Sketching is one of the most important skills for industrial designers, so every day sketching drill is something what we all gone trough. One of the most useful and most demanding tasks is “one minute sketch drill”. Drawing on this way designers are learning how to define the shape with less lines and less time. After “one minute sketching drill” your sketching technique and way of thinking about drawings will be much better. Just keep drawing. We made Sketch Counter Widget, so you could have software that will track your time with just one click.

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Toscana Design Competition

For some years now we have been experiencing a phenomenon that can only be defined as ”accessible luxury”; that is a return to investment in tangible, traditional goods, with furnishings and the home in general taking first place.

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OPUS DESIGN AWARD competition

Japanese competition for shades design is here again! Every year OPUS makes competition for young designers around the world to design some new and interesting shades.

Theme for this year is: “EXPRESSION OF TIME”

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Say Cheese - mouse pad

New product from the “Ego Ideas”- Belgrade based design studio. This time it`s mouse pad. Originally as always, simple and very interesting product designed by young Serbian designer Damjan Stankovic.

Resource : Ego Ideas

Design Sketching book review

Design Sketching is an innovative new sketch technique book that has become a highly regarded resource for designers, students and Universities throughout the world. This is one of those “must have” books, it`s inspiration in hard covers. The great peace that every designer should have on it`s shelf. Read the rest of this entry »