Awesome Design

One of the most eye-catching – and controversial – designs for a lamp we’ve ever seen. Designed by Luca Veneri using fluid dynamic simulation to emulate the shape of a mushroom cloud.

These high-end speakers look spectacular with two wooden conical horns crafted from black walnut, cherry or ash, and deep bass provided by a giant 21″ neodymium rear-loaded subwoofer.

If you’re like us, your crazy fantasy of leaving on a cross-country bike trek just got a little crazier thanks to Topeak’s Bikamper. It’s a personal shelter that uses your bike in place of tent-poles.

(Shameless Plug) Awesomer founder Sion Lee is back with his latest site, tutverse, with over 8500 hand-picked tutorials, tips and resources for digital artists, easily browsed by application or purpose.

It looks like an old VHS tape, but Peleg Design’s version is actually a 260 page journal, compete with sticky labels so you can mark what’s on each “tape”. We’ve heard the BetaMax version is better.

At first glance at designer Denis Guidone’s minimal black wristwatch, you might think the hands are broken, but once you get a hang of it, it’s actually quite easy to read. (Thanks, Random Objects!)

It seems like such a simple concept, but we love the ambient glow that plusminuszero’s A4 lamp emits, while masquerading as a 500-sheet ream of paper. We wish they made one in tabloid size too.

Built to encourage development in Huainan City, China, this unusual structure derives its shape from a grand piano, accompanied by a violin entryway and staircase. Google Earthers, check this out.

Are you perpetually late to appointments? You could just set your clock forward by a few minutes, or you could buy Diamantini & Domeniconi’s wall clock, giving you a 3 minute jump at all times.

20% Lomography Keychains are miniature replicas of four of the most popular Lomo cameras – Lubitel+, Diana F+, Fisheye 2, and the LOMO LC-A+. Each keychain comes in a gift-ready tin.

Declaration 1776 are diversifying their product line in true American fashion with these U.S. made laser etched iPhone 4 covers. The peel-and-stick designs come in Cherry, Walnut and Black Cherry.

Ben Millet designed this incredibly versatile camera mount for a college project. Functioning as a tripod, steadycam and chest/shoulder mount, the Duopod would be perfect for all our on-the-go DSLR needs.

File this under the “why didn’t we think of this?” By combining the pop-top with the bottle cap, designer Gonglue Jiang eliminates the need for bottle openers. Of course, there is always the twist-off.

Designer Ed Chew created these intricate lighting fixtures using old Tetra Pak cartons, otherwise headed for the recycling bin (or worse yet, the trash). Nothing like a little ingenuity, right folks?

Sander Mulder’s latest home furnishings are built to resemble industrial shipping containers, and just like the real deal, units can be stacked and rotated to create a multitude of storage configurations.

Augmented Reality Cinema is a conceptual app that automagically recognizes the location of the user and then plays a scene from a movie that took place in that exact same location.