Awesome Design

History buffs will enjoy Zeb Love’s limited edition series of six woodcut prints which showcase some highly influential folks. The signed and numbered 16″ x 20″ pieces are hand painted and screened.

Is it raining outside? Keep your head dry when the rain hits by covering up with Koan Design’s waterproof bag, cleverly designed to look like that newspaper that normally fails to protect you.

Design student Andrew Clifford Capener has created the A-1 Scrabble Designer Edition, which would come with customized typography tiles, a walnut scrabble board and cork lined exterior box.

The BubbleHut and BubbleLodge are completely transparent spaces that allow you to enjoy the beauty of the outdoors while being in a comfortable environment like your living room or bedroom.

We love Hern Kim’s minimal WALdok, which hangs on a wall outlet, charging your iPod Nano, providing music playback through its built-in speaker. A Kickstarter project, so pledge if you want one.

There have been tons of attempts to create a decent stylus for the iPad and other tablets, but Don Lehman’s simple cap that fits onto a Sharpie, Bic or Pilot pen is the smartest we’ve seen.

Molla Space’s Armed Notebooks show your co-workers you mean business, with an armory of dangerous weapons embossed into the front, making your pen just that much mightier.

The Type Sandwiches series, a typographic series of food created using only color and the Helvetica font, is part of David Schwen’s MSCED project and was inspired by his original Burgervetica design.

Made from an 18 gauge steel coffin, Autum’s Heretic features 4 cast iron legs that support 800+ pounds, a handbuilt and sewn Italian leather seating area and a laser engraved ID plaque.

Made of full grain leather, Whipping Post Guitar Bags are available in 3 finishes; they feature hand sewn satchels that use marine grade threading and include 1″ of high density foam padding.

This incredibly expensive wall clock from illi looks like just a series of pulsating blocks, but when you “ask it” to tell the time they rearrange themselves and reveal the time underneath.

Crafted from concrete, steel and aluminum, Atelier Takagi’s LED tabletop lamps get their inspiration from the bright lights you’d find lining pre-fab community streets and mall parking lots.

The aggressive lines of designer Imran Othman’s motorcycle belie its eco-friendly palm oil powered engine. It’s just a concept though, so it could also run on maple syrup or baby’s tears if you want.

Matthew Kim’s gutsy Hammerhead HMR989 PC flips conventional computer design inside out, offering bright blue LEDs and open-air cooling assisted by a dramatic Thermaltake “SpinQ” CPU cooler.

This titanium marvel won’t win points for simplicity, but we are awestruck by its intricate movement, which displays the time along the right edge using a numeric arrow pointing at the current minutes.

You can’t possibly call Maximo Riera’s truly impressive Octopus Chair a chair – it’s more like an Octopus throne, meant for underwater royalty or an evil overlord in a movie. (Thanks Matt!)

Mengshun Wu’s concept watch combines elements of vehicle design, such as dashboard gauges and disc brakes, constructed from automotive materials like aluminum, carbon fiber, rubber and glass.

Next month, the Marina Bay Sands Casino and Resort in Singapore will be the proud home of the lotus flower-shaped, eco-conscious and world’s first ArtScience Museum, designed by Moshie Safadie.

Loris Bottello’s Tron-inspired Ring Lamp uses bioluminescent polymers to emit light, and rotating the disk changes the light intensity. Brush contacts transfer the power to the outer copper ring.

Fully capture a memory of an event by combining a photograph with mementos in the Face frame collection; the clear, faceted forms allow you to stand them in different directions for the best view.

While Lee Rowland’s metal ripple tables looked amazing, Studio Hanna & Seo’s version uses actual water, producing beautiful geographic patterns whenever a tea cup is placed in the saucers.

Similar to a cinema screen that the picture from the projector shines on, Nodesign’s Dia Parrot is a frame with a transparent high-res LCD screen that gives your favorite snaps a retro-modern twist.

The elegant CardSharp is a credit card-sized sharp and slim utility knife, which easily transforms into a tool in 3 folding steps; the built-in protective sheath helps prevent injury or blunting. (Thanks Danny!)