A straightforward stylish way to carry your most important items. Capsul is a very high-quality product that is designed and made in Canada. It fits in well with all your daily activities and allows you to carry all sorts of objects that you may need:
• From cards, to keys, to cash
• For replacing the traditional leather wallet
• For business cards
• For public transit tickets and cards
• For a small first aid kit
• Gift Cards
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"I just wanted to thank you again for supplying the plastic for the recent workshop at The Ark in Suffolk.The theme centred around 'Islands and Waterways' locally and in Papua New Guinea . After looking at objects from The Sainsbury Centre handling collection, we used conventional plastics to make and float boats and then starch based plastics to make flags for 'pretend' islands we created in the centres garden. The full day workshop was for families so I talked to the adults and children about the issues surrounding conventional and green plastics and showed them some of the artwork I've produced with 'Harmless Dissolve' and starch plastics."
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HISTORY
TWOTHIRDS was established in San Sebastian, heart of the Basque Country, in the year 2010. Its founders started a surf-inspired street label to be set apart from others. A brand that stands for pure design, high quality sustainable fabrics and a deep connection to the ocean.
PHILOSOPHY Two-thirds of our planet is covered by ocean. It is what makes us who we are and what gives us so much joy. We aim to address like-minded people, who are awake and aware of the inmense value of our oceans and are deeply connected to surfing but also have a thirst for style and substance. More than just another green label we like to think of TWOTHIRDS as the blue company. Our leitmotif: PROTECT WHAT YOU LOVE.
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“Strip Ease” is a multifunctional modular street furniture element: it can be used as a bench and a bike rack if it’s placed horizontally, or it can easily become a vase or a rubbish bin by inserting a proper internal framework and placing it vertically. The name “Strip Ease” is also closely dealing with the production process. In fact the object is created simply by folding a recycled steel strip in the shape of a spiral in order to minimize the waste of material.
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PUMA partnering with Fuseproject created this innovative, green packaging system. Boxes contribute to millions of tons of waste each year. Fuseproject explored getting rid of them altogether by creating instead a a reusable bag to provide structure, thus using 65 percent less cardboard. The packaging also has no laminated printing, no tissue paper, and weighs less for shipping while also eliminating the need for a plastic retail bag. The rollout of the new packaging and distribution system is planned for 2011.
Millions of shoes shipped in this bag will reduce water, energy and diesel consumption in the manufacturing process by more than six percent per year. In summary: 8,500 tons less paper, 20 million megajoules of electricity saved, 1 million litres of fuel oil and 1 million litres of water will be conserved. During transport 500,000 litres of diesel will be saved and by replacing traditional shopping bags, the difference in weight will save almost 275 tons of plastic.
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Winner of the “iF product design GOLD award 2010,” the “Elica” by Brian Sironi is a flexible table lamp that makes use of LEDs for illumination. Featuring a body finished in metal, the table lamp also integrates an adjustable aluminum arm that the user can rotate to control, increase or decrease, the glow of the light. The Elica lamp removes switches and presents a clean and harmonious design, looking more like a piece of art than a light.
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A new bendable bike has made history of sorts in bike invention. Designed by 21 year old British designer, Kevin Scott the bendy bike needs no lock to secure itself. It does that by simply wrapping itself around a lamp post. Kevin made this possible through application of ratchet system built into the frame of the bike. The frame can be ratcheted tight to allow it to be ridden like a normal bike and loosened similarly to bend and wrap around the pole, enabling the lock to be wrapped through both wheels and the frame. Thoroughly capable of going into production, Mr Scott’s creation is currently on display at the New Designers show at the Business Design Centre in Islington, North London.
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Augmented reality, by definition, is any view of a physical real-world environment whose elements are augmented by virtual computer-generated imagery. This is a fairly broad definition that encompasses a lot of smaller categories. When most people think of augmented reality, they tend to think of super futuristic heads-up displays that can instantly provide information on any object it sees, and help direct the user’s interactions with reality, like we have seen in the Terminator or Iron Man movies.
However, mobile technologies, digital cameras, cutting edge software developers, and the power of crowd-sourced information has helped build a new generation of augmented reality applications that are pushing the limits of the technology and creating new tools for individuals and businesses to engage each other. This has transformed augmented reality from bulky hardware setups into small apps that run on common smartphones, home computers, and Internet applications. No longer do we need bulky goggles, awkward setups, or futuristic hardware to make it work, which has opened it up to wide-scale commercial use.
Another form of augmented reality that is becoming increasingly common in mobile and web applications is the use of webcams or phone cameras to overlay images onto whatever the camera is viewing. In many cases this uses QR codes, essentially a high-tech barcode, or other visual cues in order to know how to display an object. For example, magazines, business cards, trading cards, or other materials can be printed in order to provide visual cues to the camera. Hold the card closer to the webcam and the object gets bigger; tilt or rotate the card, and the virtual object moves along with you. This lets you virtually manipulate objects, which can be great for online shopping, games, development, and other applications. There are hundreds of examples that are currently in use, but each of them provide a new level of interactivity that gives the user the ability to “interact” with the product, rather than just see pictures or video.
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Taking cue from the rainwater flowing smoothly on the leaves, Argentine design studio Synopsis has come up with an innovative umbrella that much like the Filterbrella collects and filters the rainwater for drinking purpose. The “Umbrella Recollector,” as they hail it, features a cone shaped fabric to collect rainwater, which you can pour into the water bottles after appropriate purification through built-in filter. Moreover, you can adjust the knob to screw bigger bottles and store drinking water for future use.
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Remember the HP Printer film that we featured as part of our graduate coverage last year? Well one year on, its creators, Matt Robinson and Tom Wrigglesworth, have created a sequel...
Robinson and Wrigglesworth picked up the Best New Blood award at D&AD last year with their original film, which saw a number of a HP printers perform a synchronised print in time to music. This year's version, which was commissioned by HP, sees three HP Photosmart printers used to tell a complex animated narrative.
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Considering the fact that bamboo is the fastest growing woody plant that needs no chemicals and little water, now designers are using it more frequently as a raw material for their designs or products to attract more eco conscious users. Handcrafted out of natural bamboo, the new earbuds are the latest addition to the bamboo band that apart from being environmentally sustainable also presents a neat and sleek design. The “Bamboo Earbuds” comes wrapped in a handmade gift box with a 3.6 feet long cable for $24.
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A stage - to take along. For the self-confident and inspired. Always new, always different, always individual. auf blank bags are designed by inspiring international artists such as Paulo Arraiano, Dean Snyder or Dominic Wilcox and are offered in limited edition - for tight communities and large niches.
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Packaging on a supermarket shelf has less than three seconds to grab the attention of a consumer.Those three seconds are exceedingly important when you consider that more than 70% of purchasing decisions are made at the shelf. Add to this the fact that supermarkets can contain on average 40,000 packs to choose from, then that pack has got to work hard. Packaging’s role is threefold:
To sell the product
To protect the product
To facilitate the use of the product
In this guide we’ll investigate what packaging design is all about and how packaging designers help packaging manufacturers and brand owners create packs that appeal to customers and that function in the supply chain.
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A colouring book for grown-ups, The Sneaker Colouring Book is a collection of 100 black-and-white line drawings of popular sneaker designs, shown in side view, to colour, alter or customize. The models featured are 100 of the most popular designs from 1916 to the present day from 18 major brands including Adidas, Converse, New Balance, Nike, Onitsuka Tiger, Puma, Reebok and Vans. Brand, model name, launch date and category are listed for each sneaker. The drawings are printed on high-quality paper and the pages are perforated so that a drawing can be removed once completed.
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Crop circle advertising is quite literally out of this world. We can source hundreds of crop fields anywhere on the planet to create enormous natural adverts to any scale you can imagine. Using technology perfected over decades we can re-create stunning natural advertisements in crop circles to any specified artwork.
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Annually 3 billion plastic bottles are consumed in the UK alone with 80% of these being sent to landfill. Environmental concerns aside, bottled water can cost the consumer between 240 and 10,000 times more than tap. The “Just Add Water” is a design response from Plus Minus Design to the environmental issues surrounding bottled drinking water, representing an incremental step towards a more sustainable drinking culture.
The Just Add Water allows consumers to buy bottle caps that add flavor, energy or vitamins to tap water. The sports cap has the ability to seal onto almost all plastic water bottles currently on the market through an intuitive push and twist action that mimics traditional screw fit tops. Added value is delivered through a gelatin-based liquid tab within the cap that dissolves rapidly on contact with water.
Once you have fitted one of the caps to a bottle, the top section (the green part) tightens to create a seal so no drink is lost. The replacement packs of these “flavor tabs” can be sold alongside the bottle top itself, which would be available in a range of flavors, perhaps including, fruit flavorings, energy or carbonation.
Through this innovative way of adding value to tap water, what is perhaps an unattractive drink to some can be turned in to something else, it’s not quite “water in to wine”, but does bring significant environmental savings. The cap at its end-of-life can be recycled in the same manner as plastic bottles.
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Brand design isn’t always interpreted by consumers in the way you envisioned. Courtesy of The Disciples of Design.
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