Great simple project by jeonghwa seo and hanna chung. I think I’ll have to make on of these!

“According to the designers, easterners commonly believe that small changes of an individual person or object can make big impact on the larger society, thus,
leading to a modest and totalitarian culture. this social tendency described as a ’ripple effect’ was translated here into tea ceremony table.

Ripples are created on the top water layer of the table surface everytime the tea cup and saucer are moved by the user. through this project, seo and chung wanted to emphasize the importance of considering cultural mentality and context as a backdrop to their work.”

more pics mirrored after the jump via designboom

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Simple, colorful, fun, time… say hello to O’clock watches for $36 each. They fit like a bracelet (3 sizes) and jump under water if needed Go get a few at their store here! I want them all.

via formatmag

I’ve been using the Fliqlo clock screensaver for quite some time and must say it’s my favorite. Following along the same aesthetics as Fliqlo are 3 other great visual screensavers. Dropclock has dropping numbers into liquid, Minnow puts a pond into your screen, and Wordclock expresses the time in words within a sentence.

very cool!
via holiday matinee (source monomoda)

A fork and spoon is simply an extension in your hands and fingers… so why not make utensils representing hands like the fun spoon and fork above! I wonder what a knife would be though… a karate chop hand… and what would chopsticks be… fingers? Ha, buy these at matsubai below.

via matsubai

Interesting project to start kids early in the thinking process in saving for charity! Very cool and needed.

“The power of piggy:

We believe that this simple product, Piggy, can truly make the world a better and more compassionate place.

Piggy helps teach kids about charitable giving, with the hopes of inspiring new generations of caring, sharing, philanthropic citizens.

With 12,000 children born each day in the US, imagine the social impact if just a fraction of them learned powerful lessons
of gratefulness and kindness to others.”

See the full project at goodlittlepiggy

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Neat!

“In the sought-after London boroughs of Chelsea and Islington, inner city birds often have to claim their nesting space quickly! However, birds that are open to changing their wild ways might be convinced to try out the innovative bird-housing concept developed by the artists at London Fieldworks. The “Spontaneous City in the Tree of Heaven” opened recently as part of the Secret Garden Project by UP Projects and hopes to develop into a haven of biodiversity and create a new public awareness of the ecological and cultural value of urban green spaces.

With over 250 bird and bug boxes available in the stunning sculptural art installation, birds can choose from a range of shapes and sizes of boxes to use for shelter, nesting or feeding spaces. The diverse complex of bird boxes were designed to reflect the architecture in the nearby Georgian terraces and 1960s flats that surround the park in Duncan Terrace Gardens and Cremorne Gardens. We love the strangely organic forms that are created by stacking these distinct modular box shapes together and are happy to hear that they have been woven together using elastic bands, which means the structure can change over time as the tree grows.

Read the rest on Inhabitat with more pictures.

Hehe, so if your struggling to pick a typeface and don’t have a graphic designer to help you out, here’s a fun little infographic that might save you some thinking time in choosing a font.

via gawker (thanks shaun m)

“Sao Paulo ad agency Moma Propaganda created a wondeful series of retro future ads for Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Skype as part of the “Everything Ages Fast” ad campaign for Maximidia Seminars.”

I’d really like an embossed large print of these posters… what a great project! Somewhat reminds me of Back To the Future.

via LaughingSquid (This Isn’t Happiness & Ads of The World)

See all the Retro Future ads after the jump!

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Wow, check out this space in japan.. makes me want to be at peace with nature,  relax, an live a very simple life… though it needs a small pool or Onsen somewhere.

“The Minimalist House in Itoman-shi, Okinawa, Japan, was designed by Shinichi Ogawa & Associates / Urbanist Architect. Just have a look a the floor plan and you’ll understand why it’s called the minimalist house.”

More images mirrored via todayandtomorrow after the jump.
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Alphabet pencil heads anyone? Pretty random, but i gave me a smile.

“Many artists have used pencils to create works of art – but Dalton Ghetti creates miniature masterpieces on the tips of pencils”
via telegraph.co.uk

I came across some photography work of Iain Crawford and was quite impressed. Take a look at the website full of shots great shots! I’ll post some of my favorites after the jump.
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I started Designverb on January 18th, 2006 as a quick experiment to jot down the many things I found to share with my friends and anyone else curious. Today, August 1st, 2010,  marks my 1000th post, and this one being the 1001′st.

I’ll admit the the opportunities, friendship, community, and insights I’ve received throughout the years has been amazing and it has surely kept me busy after a long day of work and on weekends.  There are times where I’m flooded with work and have very little time to post, but I started a Facebook Fan page where I post quick  fun links and have recently found some extra contributors to help find more great things to post about.

The Above picture is of sushi at O Ya here in Boston. I tend to eat sushi to celebrate  so maybe I’ll go there this week again.

Anyhow, I had no plans to really celebrate, but I thought I’d share some of the most popular posts since starting Designverb.
1. Tunnel House
2. Stuck At Heathrow Airport
3. Paint Chip Card Holder
4. Red Bull Headquarters
5. Mark Khaisman Brown Tape Art
6. Stefans Stormtroopers a Day
7. Heineken World Bottle: Beer to Bricks
8. Creepy Snow Globes
9. Color Changing Mini-Cooper
10. Burj Al Arab: Tennis Court in the Sky!
11. Non-Metric Countries
12. Shoes That Make Everyone the Same Height
13. How 315 Billion Dollars Looks
14. GadgetOff 2007 and 2009 Recaps.
15. TerraCycle Inc

And one of my fun little trips came from GM here.