Over the last years designers came up with a number of interesting concepts which have somehow stuck between the prototyping stage and the production stage. Today we wanted to present innovative designs and concepts that give us an idea of what we should expect from designer’s creative mind over the years to come.

In this issue we provide you with over 48 fresh ideas to spice up your environment with a number of innovative gadgets, advertisements, product designs and concepts.

1. Hand-Made Art

1.Decoder Rings

Cory Doctorow of Boing Boing is getting a decoder ring to use as a wedding ring. This one has three rotating bands that can be lined up to decode secret messages. He’s now looking for a proper code.

2. Claire Coles

One-of-a-kind works of art, Claire Coles stitched cup and tea plate.

3.Wicked Witch Cupcakes

These great-tasting, ghoulish-looking cupcakes are a wickedly easy treat for a Halloween party!

4.Spider Cakes

“To make these sinister-looking cakes, you’ll need six 1 1/2-by-3-inch dome silicone baking molds, a medium pastry bag with coupler”.

2. Photography

5.Sisters

“Silver umbrella/speedlite above camera, speedlite diffused with a sheet of white paper below for fill, and plenty of gaffers tape.” What a cute idea!

6.Zot in a Knot

“Zot is a red-phase western hognose snake. Has approximately the size of a pencil, and is about 4 months old. This was taken with a point and shoot digital fuji”

7.Source

Long exposure 30 seconds, located in a church in Ars en Ré, town on the “Ile de Ré” island.

8.Life

This is an amazing shot and the details are really good.

9.Amazing Shot

10.Butterfly Shot

3. Advertisement

11.Pepsi: Dare for more!

12.Seiko

13.Will Work for Food

14.Everybody wants to be a Dog

15.Chess Ace

16.Sharpie

17.Nothing can replace a tree

18.Strong cold and flu relief

19.Open your eyes to saturated fats

20.Foot Odour

21.Creative Advertising Ideas from Students

22.Harley Davidson

23.McDonald’s Coffee Ads

4. Art

24.Body Painter

25.Positive Hype

26.Meet the big man

27.We All Love Typography

28.Fausta

29.Olli-Pekka Jauhiainen

30.Vector Art

31.Japanese Moleskine

32.Stop Haunt Me Everyday Collection

33.Light Circles

5. Products

34.Toothpick Holder

35.Hacked

“somebody just went and TORE MY FREAKING USB

CABLE IN HALF while it was still attached to my laptop! No —

wait — sorry. That’s just my USB flash drive.”

36.DODGE ‘EM- the desktop dodgeball game

37.Plush Plush

38.Bike

39.Anti-Theft Lunch Bag

40.World Wild Life foundation

41.Flee Digital Cam

42.Corian Calendar

43.Reactable- Electronic music instrument

6. Architecture

44.Rotterdam Cube

45.Bridge to Photosynthia

46.Hydropolis, the world’s first underwater hotel.

47.The famous colorfull village on the sea

48.Creative work enviroment