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Coffee Cup Carry

You don’t need to come up with something complicated to resolve a simple issue. The goal here is to cut paper consumption when we use disposable paper cartons for beverage take-aways. How do we achieve it; simply redesign the take-away sleeve. For example the “One Plus One” is a coffee cup sleeve that comes with a hooked extension, entwine it with another sleeve and you’re good to carry two cups at a time. It may get a bit tricky to carry more than 2 cups at a time, stacking up 4 seems too risky. But the design is worth refining and implementing.

Designer: Jin Won Park

Flower Pill

Flower Pill

On one hand we have tech marvels like the Medicine Management System for the Elderly that helps establish a routine in pills popping, ensuring you take the correct dosage at the right time. And on the other, we have a simple in-your-face kinda a reminder: The Medi Flower. It repackages the tablets into cute little stands that you can place at an obvious spot. A constant reminder that you need to take your tablet….soon.

Designer: Moon Sun-Hee

On one hand we have tech marvels like the Medicine Management System for the Elderly that helps establish a routine in pills popping, ensuring you take the correct dosage at the right time. And on the other, we have a simple in-your-face kinda a reminder: The Medi Flower. It repackages the tablets into cute little stands that you can place at an obvious spot. A constant reminder that you need to take your tablet….soon.

Designer: Moon Sun-Hee

Origami’s Hunter Lamps

Origami’s Hunter Lamps

By Andrew Liszewski

I’ll just come out and say it, you can’t buy them, so don’t get too attached to these faux-origami mounted animal head lamps created by Chilean industrial designer Verónica Posada. For some reason I have a soft spot for fake mounted animal heads, probably due to being creeped out by a real deer mounted in my grandmother’s basement as a kid. These lamps are far less intimidating though, and in case you couldn’t figure out, include a ram, a deer and a rhinoceros.

Panasonic Gets A Gold Star For Earphone Packaging Design

Panasonic Gets A Gold Star For Earphone Packaging Design

By Andrew Liszewski

I can’t attest to the sound quality of these Panasonic RP-HJE 130 earbuds, but even I’ll admit that this brilliant packaging, designed by Berlin-based Scholz & Friends, would make them hard to pass up. It’s another case where a simple visual idea can outdo even the most elaborately designed graphics, and the fact that they’ve incorporated and displayed the actual product is worth a couple of bonus points as well.

Redesigned Diamond Cigarette Packaging Could Simply Make It Too Inconvenient To Smoke

Redesigned Diamond Cigarette Packaging Could Simply Make It Too Inconvenient To Smoke

By Andrew Liszewski

Governing bodies have tried many different ways to discourage smoking including dramatically increasing the price of cigarettes through taxes, by forcing tobacco companies to include graphic and disturbing imagery and warnings on the packaging to even requiring them to be hidden away behind closed doors at stores. And while this brilliant redesign of cigarette packaging isn’t the end all solution to the problem, it’s another step that will hopefully discourage more people from smoking.

The flip-top cigarette box is actually incredibly well designed when it comes to portability, accessibility and even marketing. So Eric Askin figured that by breaking the rules of design it could actually discourage people from using a harmful product, and that’s what led to the creation of his diamond-shaped packaging concept. It fits terribly in a pocket, the cigarettes are harder to access or share, less of them can be stacked on a shelf and when they are, the branding is obscured, they’re more difficult to ship and they’re more expensive for tobacco companies to make and manufacture. Of course the new packaging would have to be mandated the same way the current warning labels are, but I think it’s a brilliantly simple way to make the terrible habit even more of an inconvenience.

Beer-in-a-Box Saves Space, Materials, Sobriety

By Adam Frucci on April 20, 2010 at 1:00 PM

This clever beer packaging concept is a box with a tap. We’ve seen similar things before, yes, but this costs less, uses less packaging and is more efficient to transport. Plus, it holds beer!

AU: Turns out this is an Aussie design (naturally) that’s been selected to represent Australia as part of the Dyson International Design Awards. You can find out more at http://www.jamesdysonaward.com – NB

[Brand X Daily via Core77]

Move-it Concept Is A 100% Recyclable Cardboard Trolley

Move-it Concept Is A 100% Recyclable Cardboard Trolley

By Andrew Liszewski

Currently up for a much deserved James Dyson Award, David Graham’s Move-it concept consists of a set of self-adhesive cardboard parts that turns any box, up to 45 lbs in weight, into an easy to transport rolling trolley. The cardboard parts include a set of wheels and two different types of handles depending on the box’s shape and size, and when you’re finished moving whatever’s in the box the parts can be re-used elsewhere, or just recycled, including the glue which is a specially designed repulpable contact adhesive that disperses harmlessly in water.

Basically the success of this concept all comes down to the price. If I can buy a set of wheels and a handle for any cardboard box for less than $5, I may never have to lift anything ever again!