Awesome Design

Shut the key designing game down. We have a winner. Goodworth & Co.’s key will make you feel like a bad ass every time you take it out. It’ll open up conversations as well as it does locks.

Add some arrrr to your bedroom with these pirate-themed bedding, pillows and sheets from Sin in Linen. There’s also a shower curtain available. Ink fans should check out the tattoo-themed bedding.

If Dexter Morgan is reading this, here’s the perfect thing for covering the walls of your dedicated kill room. These photo-decals are available in sizes up to 81″ x 116″, and as small as a gadget skin.

Designed by Angelina Barkschat, Finn Blümel and Severin Arnold, the 63 Grad (63 Degrees) bench can be folded thanks to its nylon hinges. Multiple units can be connected to form a larger bench.

Rodrigo Rubio and his colleagues only needed 5 weeks to create the Solar House 2.0 – and were able to customize it for its surroundings – thanks to digital design and digital fabrication technology.

Designed by Kacper Hamilton for ski gear company Zai, the Core axe has a wood and carbon fiber helve and interchangeable carbon steel heads. This thing will surely split your wallet in half.

A sexy, modular system for storing bottles of wine, with wall-mounted panels made from aircraft-grade aluminum and a variety of stylish wood veneers. Each panel holds up to 9 bottles.

A working prototype made by Aerofex Corporation. The vehicle has an intuitive control system that responds to the rider’s leaning movements and balance, similar to a Segway.

Looking for some wall lamps to go along with your gun table lamps? These deadly sconces by ceramicist Ryan Weigner of Loaded Objects should do the trick. Also available: an AK-47 floor lamp.

Designed by WG3, the Hypercubus is a compact and portable yet very alluring shelter that could function as a temporary retreat for tourists who want to really take in surrounding landscapes.

Megawing’s ceramic coin bank is shaped like a teapot. It’s designed to make withdrawing coins as easy as depositing them. To extend the metaphor, the coins are poured out of the coin bank’s spout.

Designer Igor Chak’s conceptual shelves perfectly mimic the beams and girders of the 1980s classic video game, Donkey Kong. Though we don’t recommend rolling flaming barrels down them.

Many people avoid wearing bike helmets because of their bulk and lack of comfort, but design students Anna and Terese came up with a safety concept that’s like not wearing a helmet at all.

Designer Stephen Kenn salvaged military fabric from a warehouse in Los Angeles filled with World War II surplus. He used them to make sofas, coffee tables and other furniture. Video here.

Sit inside or outside the soft and tranquil wool felt Hush, designed by Freyja Sewell. Converts from an easy chair to a womb-like sleeping pod. Or maybe we’ll just call it a tent.

Hong Kong based furniture store Tree’s collection is inspired by the traveling cases used by musicians to carry their instruments. It includes a wine bar, a coffee table, shelves and a desk.

Nonstandard’s concept for a mobile caravan, the Mehrzeller (“Multicellular”) is meant to be highly customizable while still maintaining a consistent and efficient manufacturing process.

Despite the fact that designer Rasmus B. Fex’s chair looks like it’s about to tip over, it’s actually extraordinarily stable thanks to some clever engineering and construction.

While this octopus candelabra has eight arms, it only holds four candles at a time – but we’ll forgive it, since it’s still the most awesome centerpiece you can own – except maybe an octopus punch bowl.

Michael Roopenian’s Engrain is a prototype keyboard with keys made from a single plank of sandblasted wood. The consistent variation of the ridges on the keys makes it easier to touch type.

Yeople’s En garde Musketeer is a dual purpose cutting board – it has a slot where you can sheathe a knife. Each board is handmade in Romania out of beech wood and finished with laser engraving.

For erryday shufflin’ of files. Stampd’ LA’s gold USB drive is obviously not made of the real deal, but it’s 6 times more expensive than regular 4GB flash drives. Because that’s just how you roll.

Measuring about 2 x 3 ft, the GeoChron makes it easy to tell the time in any place in the world. It’s available in different frames and two models, one that’s hung and one that flush-mounts to the wall.