Aqua, no, not the Barbie-girl song

So basically, according to recent polls, we need water to operate. Also, water is good. It's yummy. And as this nice lady is kind enough to point out to us, tap water is the same, in fact better than bottled water. So wouldn't you want to own one of these creative water bottles to have your tap water from?

See them or others here, here, here, here, here & here. Wow that's a lot of heres... what a hery post.

I am a selfish pig! That's my story and I'm sticking with it.

If we talk about design and it happens to be that the talking is done by two or more designers we will soon be lost in a world of brilliant shapes and all colours of the rainbow. This is a big problem that designers face on a daily basis. Actually, scrap that, it's a problem humankind faces of a daily basis. When we start designing something, we are very inclined to design for people like ourselves. We know what we like, we know how we feel about certain things and what we enjoy. Through this we become extremely discriminative as "people like us" are often just 5% of the population. I would like you to consider these products:

The first one I saw was the Rubix cube and my first thought was "why is it all white?" After realizing the reason for that I realized that being somewhat thick and having fingers like a baboon's I would not be able to complete one even though I can do a coloured one.

But then I started thinking about other products out there for the blind - whether it's a talking tape-measure, a calendar, writing-aid or a check-book with writing slots. Any of these product deserve to exist a thousand times more than most of the products I discuss here. That purely because these products serve us. At the end of the day, isn't that what all products are supposed to do?

I will leave this gorgeous image to hammer home the message for me, courtesy of It's Designed

Louie-Vtf

You know how a while ago I had a fat go at Louis Vuitton for making a trashbag-handbag-thing? Well this is another concept bag from them. I kinda like it. It's... fresh. But can we actually use it to carry stuff around?

No.

Unless you carry shoes. So its pointless.

Let's play ball!

NBA - Where amazing happens.

As an avid basketball fan, I will not contradict this slogan. However, something really amazing did happen in the NBA this week, it is the green week. The organization raised awareness for the environment in various activities.

Now I don't know whether planting trees is a sufficient enough of a trade if the players drive home from the event in sports cars that seem to have been lost in a desert for about a month and might be a bit thirsty now.

But I do like the organization making an effort in raising awareness, besides, all green headbands, wristbands and whatnots looks pretty cool. Shows that even though we may be a cynical bunch on this planet, hope remains that in the face of disaster we can all come together.

Red red wine, go to my head, make me forget that I still need her so!

I just stumbled on some creative wine labels and bottles. Consider this as a sort of an extension of the last post showing how we can make everyday objects creative.

Check out the rest and other cool lists here.

I'm a special one

Here's a collection of everyday objects with a creative twist - from lacy sunglasses to Titanic ice cubes to the wedding cake figurine that I just must have for my wedding.

Enjoy