Design Stories

Design Stories

Design Stories featuring great design, architecture, fashion, graphics and innovation from across the globe.

 

Celloridoo

Celloridoo is a new musical instrument which is composed of a bowed string instrument like a Cello, and Didgeridoo, an Australian simple wind instrument. Celloridoo as a chordophone which is played by a bow is tuned in fifths, starting with A3, followed by D3, G2, and then C2 as the lowest string. The other part of the instrument as a aerophone is set on C key which is suitable for many kinds of musics. This part is played with continuously vibrating lips to produce the drone while using a special breathing technique called circular breathing.

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Tradition CDN Custom

"A more resonant and structurally stronger guitar", was Mike Miltimore’s goal and along the way he discovered how to make the neck adjustable for action and intonation. Hand Built in Kamloops BC Canada, many models feature 100% domestic woods. Mike and his team have created the ultimate playing machine that fixes many problems with traditional guitar designs. They are "The Adjustable Acoustic That Plays Like an Electric" Big, Broad, and balanced tone that's perfect in the studio, around the campfire, or at home. Riversong Guitars is Canadian Innovation and Quality.

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Cans'n Caps

Cans'n Caps are designed to re-use every aluminum beverage can in several different ways. It adds various functions to used cans with each different cap.Every minute an average of 113,204 aluminum cans are recycled while around 100,000 cans are thrown away and end up in landfills. Cans'n Caps offer a simple but efficient way of reusing these aluminum cans by turning them into functional and fun objects of everyday life. The design goal behind this project is to reduce aluminum can waste in nature by re-using them, while raising environmental conscience among people around the world.

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Ropo

Ropo is a self balancing dustpan and broom concept, which never falls down on the floor. Thanks to the small weight of the water tank located in the bottom compartment of the dustpan, Ropo keeps itself balanced naturally. After easily sweeping the dust with the help of the straight lip of the dustpan, users can snap the broom and the dustpan together and put it away as a single unit without the concern of it ever falling down. The modern organic form aims to bring simplicity to the interior spaces and the rocking weeble wobble feature intends to entertain the users while cleaning the floor.

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Creative Manila

Being the inspiration network of the Philippines, Creative Manila builds a community for creative professionals, students, and enthusiasts both locally and globally. We are a creative hub where people connect, get inspired, share what inspires them, and showcase their works for opportunities. Creative Manila is an online platform for everyone in love with creativity in any form, be it in advertising, photography, graphic design, web design, illustrations, and videos; the mediums are limitless.

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Glow

Nescafe Decaf's "Why Not?" campaign paved the way for the first glow-in-the-dark print material ever to be produced. A cup of great tasting coffee during the evenings can be very enjoyable as with the experience of our readers once they land on our print ad. In a lit room, the material shows a Nescafe Decaf pack with the headline: “Sarap ng Kape” ("Great Tasting Coffee") When lights are turned off, the moon and stars glow along the new copy that reads: “Sarap ng Kape…Lalo Na Sa Gabi!” ("Great Tasting Coffee...especially at night!")

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World's greatest design teams.

Sometimes you need a very big team of talented designers to come up with truly great designs. Everyday, we feature a distinct award-winning innovative and creative design team. Explore and discover original and creative architecture, good design, fashion, graphics design and design strategy projects from design teams worldwide. Get inspired by the original works by grand master designers.

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