Switch Socket has multiple useful facets all in one go. The design makes it easy for you to glide in the plug, and the rotary switch ensures that you exercise the good sense of switching off a plugged appliance, when not in use. This saves you the trouble of yanking out a plug! LED lights round the socket passively remind you that you can save energy. What I like most about the lock and rotate feature is that it kinda makes it a child-safe socket, unless your kid is over smart and work his way around this one too!

Switch Socket is a 2011 red dot design concept winner.

Designer: Liang Li-Hsin [ via yankodesign.com ]

Ever wished there was a hole in the floor that would open up and swallow you in? Wishing for a similar safe haven, we have designer Chuang Chihong’s version; The Gully Cover Light. In his words, “the design suggests an imaginary space beneath the floor. It gives the impression that there is a refuge underfoot – a place to which we could escape.” The light turns on when we lift the manhole cover, and switches off when we replace it. I think it’s a clever way to bring the outdoors in!

Gully Cover Light is a 2011 reddot design concept entry. Designer: Chuang Chihong [ via yankodesign.com ]

Artist Steven Spazuk began his career as many artists do, a gradual transition from sketching and drawing to watercolor and acrylic painting. In the 1980s he began using an airbrush and found himself fascinated by the smooth gradients created by the finely sprayed paint. Then, in 2001 an idea struck: what would happen if he exposed a canvas to fire and controlled the imprint of soot left on the surface? Spazuk has hardly left the medium since. Though he creates many smaller pieces that look like smokey gesture drawings, I really enjoy his wall-sized fragmentation paintings made from hundreds of smaller works, each the result of a canvas exposed to fire and then gently etched to reveal finers details~

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Jeremy Kool, an artist and graphic designer living in Melbourne, Australia have just started a new project with the working title of « The paper fox ». The art-style is quite unique – it’s created digitally but made to look like paper-craft and origami~

Designer：Jeremy Kool [ via trendsnow.net ]

Bang-bang Handle, idea from Nikita Kovalev, creative and interesting~Do you want to install it in your own door? Maybe it’ll help scary away the bad guys~

[ via behance.net ]

Brush Up, Count Down

Keep time while you brush with the Bobble Brush Timer – an evolution of the stylish original. Bobble Brush Timer comes equipped with a two minute mechanical timer and alarm, so you’ll always achieve the perfect teeth cleaning. Combined with Bobble Brush’s signature bobble feature, Bobble Brush Timer is the ideal compliment to your toothbrush and in sync with dental hygiene~

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Sugar Blocks–sugar in shape of block is idea from designer John Truex, guess you’ll like it~ designer：John Truex [ via behance.net ]

An artist has created a menagerie of enormous animals – made entirely of scaffolding. Ben Long, 33, spent months in Lancaster building a larger-than-life dog, stag and horse out of metal poles and screws. The sculptures, which measure an incredible 30ft high, each took three weeks to build using a scaffolding spanner and a further six months to perfect. Really incredible, huh~

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Experience is a good teacher they say and designer Junjie Piao learnt a good lesson with it. A stint in chopping celery sticks left him frustrated, especially when it was time to scoop and transfer them to a bowl. He decided to “design something to make this process easier without disturbing slicing.” Thus was born Pour-Smart, an L-shaped plastic piece and a bar of strong magnet. The contraption allows you to chop and easily transfer food from the cutting board to a bowl. Simple and very useful is my verdict!

Designer: Junjie Piao

[ via yankodesign.com ]

This pocketbook is in the shape of hankerchief, you can write anything important in case you forget, also have a good look, for it takes the form of the hankie and will naturally fit into the pocket of your suit jacket~

[ via trendsnow.net ]