Word Puzzle universal wrapping paper

Word Puzzle universal wrapping paper — design and art direction by Fabio Milito and Francesca Guidotti. Simply locate the holiday you need, circle it, and you’re good to go.

Fred&Friends

Leave it up to Fred&Friends to come up with new products that put a smile on your face. I couldn’t help but smile when I saw this OCD Chef Cutting Board. And the AppKins.(They don’t seem to be listed in the product pages yet, but are announced on the homepage.) 

Sky Garden House by Guz Architects

Here’s a house with gardens on all three levels designed by Singaporean studio Guz Architects on Santosa Island, Singapore. The Sky Garden House includes a large stone-lined swimming pool that can be viewed from inside the building at basement level through a large glazed window. The curved roof at the top is also covered in grass and affords views of the bay beyond.

Photographs are by Patrick Bingham Hall.

The information below is from the architects:

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SKY GARDEN HOUSE 

This house is located on a new housing estate on the island of Sentosa adjacent to Singapore. The plots are not large and neighboring buildings are built close to the sides of each house. 

Thus our strategy was to build a solid wall to each side neighbor to provide privacy where possible, while creating a central light and stair well which would funnel the sea breeze through the center of the building. 

The front and rear of the building meanwhile, terrace back allowing each story to have visual or actual access to greenery. 

The intention was to try to allow each roof garden provided a base for the story above allowing the layered effect to make each story feel like it was a single storey dwelling sitting in a garden.as much as we could do in the close confines of Sentosa island and with such a large building!!

LOCATION            Sentosa Island, Singapore

AREA                852 sq. meters

GROSS FLOOR AREA    654 sq. meters

DESIGN ARCHITECT    Guz Wilkinson

PROJECT ARCHITECTS    Caroline Witzke and Szymon GoŸdzikowski

Letterpress

Check out his letterpress print by Joe Newton!

Flashkus - Disposable thumb drive

Products by russian-based design studio art. lebedev often play with digital icons such as a hand or mouse cursor, the computer desktop file symbol or pixelated imagery, translating them into real products.
Though taking a bit of a detour, their latest design still deals with the digital and comes in the form of a disposable thumb drive called 'flashkus'. Made from a cardboard stock material, the sticks come in sets of four, divided by perforations which make them easy to separate and use. The paper surface allows one to hand-write labels directly onto the drives, indicating what is stored on the key. They come in 4GB, 8GB or 16GB storage capacities.

A day made of glass

Amazing!!

Mp3 player

Giha Woo, a Korean product designer is out with an Mp3 player but with a difference. Shaped like a plug head it not only looks different but can be charged in any wall socket.
Easy functionality and cute looks make it all the more appealing. Plug it in any charging point and it will come back to full life again in a few minutes. With a single led on the facade and click wheel similar to that of an iPod, it can be connected inline to a USB connector through the headphone port to load the music of your choice form any PC

The Charlie Sheen Random Quote Generator

You are, Charlie, you are.

Which is why the Charlie Sheen random quote generator, livethesheendream.com, is genius.

Packaging for Verve

Chen Design is one of my favorite San Francisco based design agencies. They always put some many lovely details in their designs. This packaging for Verve coffee is no exception. The mixing of patterns, spot varnish and foil detailing look great.This packaging will be featured in The 2011 HOW International Design Awards. 

Condolisa Table

Remember Teddy Luong’s Fish Hotel? Well, he’s back and along with Dennis Cheng, he’s created the matching Condolisa Table.