Brush and Rinse
A toothbrush can redirect water from a faucet to your lips for easy rinsing. Brushing and rinsing is an oral care routine that we all perform at least once everyday. At this point, no one should be using disposable cups for rinsing is an oral care routine that we all perform at least once everyday. At this point, no one should be using disposable cups for rinsing after brushing. No one should have to wash a glass or cup every time they rinse. No one should have to lap water from his or her hand. No one should be forced to slurp excess water from toothbrush bristles. Current methods of getting water into our mouths for rinsing after brushing are sloppy, create waste, and place unnecessary stress on our bodies. And, people love water fountains.
About the Designer
A freelance electrical engineer, designer, conceptual artist, inventor and founding principal of Amron Exptl. Scott Amron graduated with Bachelor in Electrical Engineering and a Minor in Mechanical Engineering.
His winning design is this Brush and Rinse design, where it was a Red Dot Design winner in 2007, of which it also received the Best of Category in I.D. Annual Design Review Winner and also a nominees in the Cooper-Hewitt, People’s Design Awards. The Brush & Rinse is featured at the red dot design
museum in Singapore and will be until November 2008.
Popularity: 100% [?]
The ClipLight is an LED-light that has been bent quickly with the aid of a graphical step-by-step guide. By changing the LED-light into a functional lamp, the designer has expressed his design intent of removing the superfluous nature of today’s products are being overly designed.
The simple yet functional ClipLight works to light up book pages in an economical way. It also acts as a bookmark and when finished, it can be fully recycled, or kept for other uses, thereby extending a product’s life.
The ClipLight – for pure functionality.
About the Designer
Eujin Pei is an award-winning London-based Singaporean Industrial Designer who has worked for several major design consultancies and has undertaken work for clients such as Motorola and Fusion Design.
For more information on the ClipLight, please email eujin.global@gmail.com
Popularity: 27% [?]
IZZE is an all naturally fruit soda – frizzy bubbly fun drink. In order to create a great amount of fun to enjoy this beverage, it will requires two or more people, hence this lead to the idea of a bottle cap design: “Do the twist”.
About the Designer
Amy Kin Chiew, also known as Redchiew, is a graphic based designer turned art director. A recent graduate of Miami Ad School (CP+B partnered), who majored in Advertising, she spent her first year in Miami and the rest of the years in Europe exposing herself with various ad agencies, such as Saatchi & Saatchi London and W+K, Amsterdam.
Currently, she is with Draft FCB as freelance Art Director. Her life after work includes experimenting with fine art photography and character designs, of which some of these works are found in www.designrelated.com/chiewy, and other photography work in www.flickr.com/redchiew. Contact: redchiew@yahoo.com .
Popularity: 97% [?]
MONO is conceptually a Bluetooth MP3 player, which employs minimalist approach. Basically there are two main components in the design: the main storage unit and the receiver unit with earphones. When not in use, the main unit is a fascinating, clean box made of aluminium alloy with thorough hairline finish. There is no visible buttons at the exterior. With the use of geometry of squares, the main unit is turned on by simply rotating the 2 planes, hence revealing the control buttons.
It is built with a form and size that sits easily in the hand and in the pocket (80mm x 80mm x 17mm thick). The receiver unit is connected to the main unit via Bluetooth. Similarly, the volume in the receiver unit is controlled by rotating the two smaller squares. This volume control is expressed like a fashion accessory, which the user wears like a necklace and the earphones are connected from behind. This relieves the stress on the user’s ears, unlike convectional earphone whereby the earphones are constantly pulled from the front. Audio files transfer is done via USB and the unit is charged with built-in lithium-ion battery. The result is a gorgeous, sleek and sexy design that is unrivalled by other MP3 players.
Awards:
1. International Red Dot Concept Award for Product Design Winner for MP3 design MONO
2. Young Asian Designers Award 2005 (YADAY 05) Best in Product Design
3. International Lite-On Electronic product Competition (Merit)
About the Designer
Lui Honfay is architecturally-trained, currently working full-time as an architect. Though he has serious passion for architecture, he constantly feels restricted and uninspired if he is bounded to just architecture. During the process, his area of interests is broaden, and believes that a good designer has to be an all-rounder, being able to explore design fundamentals and brainstorm for creative ideas and apply these ideas into different design aspects. Hence he tries out different design works and continues to learn. To him, there is no difference between architecture, interior design and product design. They are all DESIGN and inter-related with each others.
He believes design is only valuable if we do something different from others.
Email: honfay@yahoo.com
Popularity: 23% [?]
Tre di Una (”Three from One”) is family of chairs created from the components of a generic wooden one by using plastic clay as the joining material.
The rigidity of an iconic chair is broken down by this process to result in unique and playful pieces with new identities and functions; suggesting possibilities and new aesthetics.
About the Designer
Hunn Wai (1980) has just graduated from the IM Masters programme of the renowned Design Academy Eindhoven, under the direction of DROOG Design co-founder Gijs Bakker.
He also received the inaugural DesignSingapore Council’s Overseas Scholarship to study at the Academy.
Hunn has also exhibited twice (2004, 2006) at the Tokyo Design Week, under sponsorship and aid from DesignSingapore and ANT Design. Products developed for those events are currently being developed for production under the ANT label.
His “Paul Smith Pingpong Table” was featured in the publication of leading London-based trends-forecasting agency The Future Laboratory.
Hunn is interested in the possibilities and stories created from colliding/joining/fusing of samples taken from all facets of contemporary culture we live in.He believes in hands-on craft-like experimentation as well as modern techniques garnered from his Industrial Design background; after all they are just tools and processes for pushing things to the next level.
He lives by the Singlish motto: “Scared Don’t Do, Do Don’t Scared.”.
Hunn can be contacted by email: info@hunnwai.com and his website: www.hunnwai.com
Popularity: 77% [?]
A unique lamp designed to create a light-hearted environment. The idea is to bring out FLEX’s multi tasking ability through different roles. Your our own personal light bearer. This is our version of an oldclassic form. To make it more appealing to the time we live in; we extend its usefulness to hold also MP3 Player or mobile phone. Additional set of arms is provided to switch the role of the FLEX from a light holder into a MP3/ iPhone/iPod Touch/iPod Classic/Video iPod and mobile phones. Here is an opportunity to let someone else hold your gadget while it is syncing and charging. Designed to fit iPhone and Video iPod as well as products with similar width and depth.
Our vision is simple, Fun through design. FLEX a light holder in a modern context.
About the Designer
FLEX champion character was created by Sumajin in 2004. The Flex light is now available from our online store at www.sumajin.com .
Popularity: 29% [?]
FOREST STOOL
Forest stool is inspired by those quiet mornings where we weave through the woods shroud in mist and hear the crunching of leaves beneath our feet. Material: Ash and upholstered foam.
About the Designers
“Why outofstock?”, we get that a lot. Our design unit was born out of a fortuitous meeting in Stockholm. Gabriel Tan and Wendy Chua from Singapore, Gustavo Maggio from Argentina and Sebastian Alberdi from Spain met at the Electrolux Design Lab in November 2005. We connected, we kept in touch, we met again. After reunions in Andorra and Barcelona, we decided to collaborate. As a cross-cultural studio, we believe in celebrating both our diversity and similarities, and our work is largely inspired by both unique cultural nuances and shared global experiences.
Outofstock is a registered company in Singapore.
Popularity: 21% [?]
WINTER ARRIVES STOOLS
We remember the fascination with the layers of fresh snow on items left outdoors when we wake up on a winter’s morning. But papa said not to sit on them as it would get us wet and cold. A ladder, sled, and garden stool are the form inspiration for this series. Material: Powder-coated mild steel and upholstered foam.
About the Designers
“Why outofstock?”, we get that a lot. Our design unit was born out of a fortuitous meeting in Stockholm. Gabriel Tan and Wendy Chua from Singapore, Gustavo Maggio from Argentina and Sebastian Alberdi from Spain met at the Electrolux Design Lab in November 2005. We connected, we kept in touch, we met again. After reunions in Andorra and Barcelona, we decided to collaborate. As a cross-cultural studio, we believe in celebrating both our diversity and similarities, and our work is largely inspired by both unique cultural nuances and shared global experiences.
Outofstock is a registered company in Singapore.
Popularity: 21% [?]
ERASER USB STICK
A “toy” in our pencil case, we used to have improvised fun playing with our blue and white erasers or skewering them with pins or staple bullets. This iconic shape of the classic blue-and-white is felt in this USB key with an irony in form (erase) and function (write data).
About the Designers
“Why outofstock?”, we get that a lot. Our design unit was born out of a fortuitous meeting in Stockholm. Gabriel Tan and Wendy Chua from Singapore, Gustavo Maggio from Argentina and Sebastian Alberdi from Spain met at the Electrolux Design Lab in November 2005. We connected, we kept in touch, we met again. After reunions in Andorra and Barcelona, we decided to collaborate. As a cross-cultural studio, we believe in celebrating both our diversity and similarities, and our work is largely inspired by both unique cultural nuances and shared global experiences.
Outofstock is a registered company in Singapore.
Popularity: 16% [?]
The Un-p3 project is an experimental Industrial Design Project that explores the idea of combining a very craft based manufacturing approach with a very mass manufacturing type product, in this case a simple Mp3 player. The project also explores the idea of “Haptic” design, where tactile elements of the material and the form give the user an additional dimension in his/her appreciation of the design.
The Wave Un-p3 concept was created using a STL rapid-prototyping machine. The distinct waves form a unique button system that is very difficult to repeat under a mass manufacturing conditions.
The Haptic Un-p3 uses laser cut plywood to give its very unique spiral effect. The idea is that as the product ages, the patina of the wood creates a product that has a very customized feel allowing the user to really own the product.
About the Designer
Brian currently lurks in Sydney and Singapore. During the day he is the Head of Industrial Design at a consumer electronics company. At night, he blogs, changes his son’s diaper, dabbles in design entrepreneurship, and swings from building to building righting wrongs.
For more information on his experimental and strategic industrial design work do check out his website Design Sojourn.
Popularity: 36% [?]
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