Design Stories

Design Me

Design Me has been launched: the social network for creative people. Not only a "Portfolio container", but also a social network portal dedicated to create new synergies. Agenda to promote exhibitions, vernissages, concerts… Dedicated to the fantasy and inventiveness, the portal aims to promote new creative talent in a unique virtual and democratic space. www.design-me.it available to designers, illustrators, photographers and creative people in general.

Let It Play

With Let It play when the wind blows or tree branches shake by natural factors, people can hear a melody with a random combination of notes in a particular scale, a Pentatonic scale for instance. This makes the combinations pleasant. By any change in wind properties and in branches movements' orders, infinite ear catching melodies will play. People hear what nature is composing. Let It Play has two flexible slings in order to be attached to tree branches. It has flexible solar cells on the body and electronic parts for motion sensing and power storage for night use.

Seating Guide

It's very upset when passengers cannot quickly find their own seat due to the train corridor congestion. The Seating Guide design solves this problem by adding a seat guide map to the original ticket. When the ticket is taken, the machine will mark the seat area with black symbols, then passengers can quickly find the entrance and seats avoiding the congestion and unnecessary waiting.

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Blackout

Custom77 has been designing original guitars since 2008. The Blackout is a mix of retro/vintage and futuristic concept, inspired by 50's american cars. The body shape really fits to the musician body and gives a feeling of confort. It's equipped with handwounded pickups and the highest hardware available. Terry Burrows, biggest selling guitar writers in the world, is "in love with Custom77 designs" and will introduce their work in the next "1001 guitars you must play before you die".

Onebip one-click mobile payment solution

Onebip one click payment service provides users with the easiest and most intuitive way of paying for their goods and services via the browser or inside an application on their mobile device. The service automatically recognizes the user’s mobile number and charges the purchase to their mobile bill in just one click. Onebip uses an encrypted identification process to immediately recognize the user’s phone number, which provides a secure and automatic authentication, so that the payment process only takes one click. There’s no need for passwords and PIN numbers or other methods.