Brazilian artist Marlon de Azambuja, based in Madrid, wraps street furniture and objects in colorful duct tape in hopes of expanding people's conceptions and relationships with the city, architecture, and art world.

Strange Attractors is a 36-page book that helps people understand its underlying concepts by introducing them to beautiful, mathematically-generated visuals. By Justin Edmond.

The results of 2011 Skyscraper Competition have been announced. The winners include a drastic conceptual redesign of the Hoover Dam.

Not to be missed round table discussion with architect Peter Zellner, former MOMA curator Christopher Mount, and artist Justin Beal. Led by Bay Area conceptual artists Eric Gibbons and Tom Borden of the Muistardeaux Collective.

'Mindful of Silver' - The journey of a vessel from conception to completion, an exhibition to take place at Goldsmiths' Hall in London.

The Gareth Spor works through his own curiosity, making amazing and conceptual pieces.

Hypnotic Record, a beautifully designed, entertainingly written, super conceptual skate campaign taking inspiration from '50s comic book ads.

Glenbrook Residence by David Jameson is conceptually a courtyard inserted between two heavy walls. Outdoor rooms, a living pavilion, and distinct public/private spaces make this house really interesting.

VIDEOReally nice conceptual work for the clothing brand WESC. The students from Hyper Island made a interactive shopping window that looks amazing! You take control of the movement in the window simply by passing it.

Ryohei Yoshiyuki is a Japan based product designer. His work is involved in many conceptual ideas such as this "Bread Palette".

TALLWORKS is a small design studio located in Los Angeles that helps brands and concepts grow to the next level. To help celebrate the holiday spirit, they decided to spruce up their logo's antlers with a bit of holiday cheer.

Roto-uku, minimal rotary-necked guitar concepts designed with only one sheet of formed wood or carbon fiber composing the body. The shape of the final guitar is like a megaphone with only tuning keys and strings required.

Aron Fay's conceptual redesign of the Design Museum Shop's packaging.

Simple Science, an ongoing photographic project that explains basic scientific concepts and experiments. By design and biology student Linda Dong.

Calendars are now more than just day organizers, they're must-have accessories for our home decor. The Calendar Fabric, by Spoonflower is one of the many new innovative concepts for the new generation of calendars.

FEATUREDMercedes-Benz Advanced Design uses Sculpture and Art as ways to explore abstract concepts... see this stunning series of 4, with honeycombed perspectives, stringy batmobiles, chaotic layering, and polygons...

FEATUREDSmart (like the car) escooter FASHION concepts! Functional chic, with details like a leather clutch that doubles as the back protector of the leather jacket, reflective detailing, stylish/protective cuffs and more.

Very interesting photography project, by Erno-Erik Raitanen, documenting the designs of found drug bags and wraps from London and South East of England

Plera is a new suspension lamp designed by Enrico Zanolla and Andrea Di FIlippo. Pleara means funnel in Friulan, the language spoken in northeastern Italy.

This year's LA Auto Show Design Challenge stipulated that concepts be four-passenger vehicles weighing 1,000 lb. or less that are comfortable, safe, and deliver satisfactory performance and looks. 9 vehicles were presented including several organic models.

Kirshenbaum Bond & Partners West Office in San Francisco by Jensen Architects. A creative working place where walls are like blackboards to write and design new ideas and concepts.

VIDEOHillarious conceptual indoor mapping performance from nerdworking gives facts behind the curtain of gated communities , such as energy of life and abstract links of the buildings.

Swedish company Add-a-room makes these modular One+ house concepts.

Seabird - Mozilla Labs and Billy May showing off a conceptual Mozilla Phone. 3D mouse and projected interfaces demonstrating the next frontier of mobile tech.

FEATUREDPlumen are here! We looked at these designer compact florescent bulb concepts 3 years ago ~ and now they are available for purchase! Awesome to see them in use...

An interesting conceptual couch called Beddo by Christina Liljeberg Halstrøm is being displayed at the exhibition Designers Investigating in Øksnehallen (copenhagen).

GUL two Solar Powered LED Kinetic Sculpture, id&@le concepts' new stainless steel glowing kinetic sculpture by Alessandro De Ambrogio and Carlos Basanta. Now on display at the Elemental Gardens’ stand, Pacific National Exhibition.

Yaniv Berg's conceptual periscope camera is a DSLR that allows you to see around the corner.

Awesome - American firm Choi + Shine Architects designed these conceptual electricity pylons shaped like human figures to march across the Icelandic landscape.

Regina Regis rain boots have been created to add a touch of design and fancy to the “water protection concept”. These cool looking rain boots comes in a whole scale of rainbow colors.

VIDEODJ touch screen interface and gesture interaction concepts.

Nike's futuristic intuitions help develop collaboration concepts that typically set a new trend. The latest collaboration Nike took part in was teaming up with Maharam to produce the Nike Air Moc Maharam Pack.

This red chair with wood inserts on one of its legs is part of Marjolaine Poulin's M DESIGN summer collection. Using reclaimed materials and creating poétical concepts is the goal of this 2010 SCRAP project.

3D compositions and concepts for Iron Man 2 by Prologue

VIDEOElectrolux Design Lab 2010 finalists' concepts. Cool solutions for compact living in the future.

VIDEO'Metamorphosis' is the latest Philips Design Probe where neat design concepts bring the outside inside.

New Living: Living by the water, on the water, submerged in the water: For Mike Bouchet, what sounds like new housing concepts was initially a sunken art installation.

honchaymoi's conceptual vision of what Adobe's offices might look like.

'Spectroscopy' by Chris Nixon is a conceptual catalog dedicated to the study of the dispersion of an object's light into its component colors.

Sam Songailo’s art practice is heavily influenced by design, electronic music, technology, man-made/natural systems and aesthetic concepts of the future. Media Centre is Songailo’s first major installation project.

Why do many products only serve a single function? This question served as an incentive for Neffa to look for unexpected and surprising combinations. One of the newest concepts is Ivy Xposed; a combination of light and plant.

Michael Kutsche is an award-winning Conceptual Artist/ Illustrator and 3d Artist located in Los Angeles who has worked for the vfx industry since 1998.

Apomechanes is an intensive 3-week computational design studio held each summer in Athens, Greece. The studio is devoted to furthering techniques and concepts of algorithmic processes as means for design and fabrication.

Type and icons decorate tea boxes and coffee cups in this conceptual branding project by Sofie Platou.

Karyn Fiebich's stenciling design on picnic tables was conceptualized around the environment in which the tables lie and the micro and macro organic components that surround it.

SONY – Contemplating Monolithic Design
fuorisalone 2010 – conceptual exhibition by Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby.

MegaBlinBling Ring by Berlin based Mendel Heit. a masculine ring 3D printed in stainless steel by Shapeways. Heit's works investigate interaction, 3d-Printing, generative shapes, innovative concepts, intelligent & sustainable solutions.

Coordinated by the DMY Berlin contemporary design platform and Create Berlin, 7designers and creative labs create the collective exhibition “Made in Berlin – Open Process” presenting new prototypes and innovative concepts.

Great infographic video about the conception of Wine by Tiago Cabaco.

Italian designer Alessandro Busana has designed the new chair PLUS for Pedrali s.p.a.(www.pedrali.it) which will be presented during Milan Design Week 2010.


Chair + chair = +
…is the result of an unlikely arithmetic calculation but in this case defines the bases of the project Plus, a search that sees the focal point as the union between character aesthetic and functional from opposites contexts.

Simplicity and versatility, typical aspects of the common plastic chair are merged, added, to exclusivity and elegance of the classic lounge chair, creating a new dialogue between aesthetic personality and versatility of use.

By a conceptual combining between these diametrically opposite two chairs, Plus defines an intermediate point where the balanced cohesion between features such as versatility of use, formal identity and accessibility, have as a direct result the design product represented by the sign +.

Known for his pioneering work integrating conceptual photography and computer generated imagery, Jim Fiscus has produced award-winning images for Levi's, Showtime, Nike, ESPN and many others

The french architecture and design studio Ecole has designed an apartment interior in Paris. The project comprised a full restructuration of the existing space and the conception of some design elements.

A very contemporary unique house design. The architects try to create a unique conceptual design. The house was originally called Villa Drusch, designed by Claude Parent and built in 1963.

Mumbai based environment designers, The Busride, challenge the diners conception of what is 2D and what is 3D in this wonderfully unique New Dehli restaurant, the Smoke House Grill.

Food/Forms by designer & chef Bengt Brummer is a conceptual dinner investigating how abstract form and shape studies can be translated into culinary terms and create different taste experiences.

Stuart Hall is a Sony World Photography Awards finalist for his conceptual work that deals with the Amber Alert for finding missing children.

Headspace: On Scent as Design, a one-day symposium from Parsons, MoMA, IFF, Seed, and Coty on the conception, impact, and applications of scent with leading thinkers, designers, scientists, artists, perfumers. March 26th.

Stage Design & live visuals for the Nuits Sonores in Lyon. Concepts and production by AntiVJ.

Familiar shape with enjoyable appearance, inspired by Lego and Tetris games, to combine concepts in stationery design. You can use it to stick your photos on fridge or pin your memos on corkboard.

unlimited people release some forgotten headset concepts sketches.

Sometimes the simplest things can be so ingenious. Paper is an inexpensive resource that can be transformed into amazing concepts once touched by a skilled paper artist.

Some nice projects and creative work by designer Ben Lloyd. A lovely diverse mix of advertising and conceptual projects. Really like the business cards on recycled stock seen on the landing page and in the archive section.

The Ant AV Tricycle is inspired by bicycle and tricycle cultures worldwide and conceptualized to be both a vehicle and platform for urban communication and interaction.

Eggstremes ~ adorable concepts for egg cups by Jonas Lonborg including a golden clawfooted design and a very rocker spikey one.

French conceptual artist Michel de Broin and his 7.5m, 1000 mirror, disco ball suspended above the Paris night sky. Amazing!

The iVictrola combines cutting edge technology of the early 20th century and the 21st century. Concepted by NYC designer Matt Richmond, he took his love for vintage turntables one step further.

Created in collaboration with conceptual artist, Arne Quinze, L’Eclaireur's latest store on rue de Sévigné, Paris, is as much art installation as it is high-end designer boutique.....

VIDEOBonnier R&D and BERG take an exciting look at how content will be consumed with touchscreen readers. User experience is the focus of this conceptual video.

Conceptual photographer Kalliope Amorphous "resurrects" Ophelia in a series of underwater self-portraits.

Located in a rural setting in Finland, this house designed by Lassila Hirvilammi Architects takes concepts from 50's rural housing in the country, resulting in a sleek yet timeless look.

"Disposable technology" by Kyle Bean, a designer from Brighton specializing in hand made conceptual models, prop design and stop-frame animation.
blinkart

Some new coin concepts.

A distorted wooden box sits on the top of a hill overlooking the Chilean countryside. The house is a mix of concepts from iconic houses to a mixed-breed dog. Designed by Supersudaka.

NORD just won the competition for a new healthcare center in Copenhagen. The design uses concepts of a typical house to turn the building into something more appealing for its end users.

Two-seater couch, The Air, projects concepts of lightness, weightlessness, comfort. and the collection of simple lines provide the dynamic elasticity.

Dutch architects Rocha Tombal designed this astonishing house in the middle of a suburban context. A mix between traditional concepts and distorted windows give this house a sculptural look.

Some amazing tattoo work by Amanda Wachob. She started as a painter and transitioned to tattoos, she has some great fresh looking tattoo concepts.

Monkee Design Interviews James Clyne, a film conceptual illustrator having worked on the last Transformer movies and the upcoming flick "The Avatar." He talks about breaking into the movie design industry and much, much more.

This year marked the "greenest year" ever at the Frankfurt Motor Show with over 50 hybrids and alternative energy vehicles in attendance. Check out the Top 9 Electric Vehicle Concepts at the show.

FEATUREDInside the Rickenbacker... MUSEUM! Final part of this post series ~ you know i couldn't resist showing you the first electric guitar, and the design details of vintage guitars as well as concepts that may never be...

Barware, softgoods, packaging and more concepts from UC industrial design students. Above - Dirty Dishes have printed graphics like "lick me" and "blow me."

The genius tableware collection "ouTable" by the Israeli industrial design firm / internship program d-Vision.

Dinner at her usual Japanese hotspot while chit chatting with the sushi chef about the technique of slicing sushi was Emma Elizabeth’s Design inspiration to her new furniture/object concepts/collection sliZed

rob dobi of fullbleed.org has released his 9th series of teeshirts, featuring conceptual artwork on a high-quality, ultra-comfy canvas!

Richard J. Evans exhibited at Free Range Graduate Art & Design Show. Some really great conceptual thinking on the part of Evans that will surely peak the interest of those who follow typography and sculpture.

Full 'Making of' for the stunning "Hope" lamp designed by Francisco Gomez and Paolo Rizzato. Inspiration, conception, industrial fabrication, every step is documented. "Que la lumière soit!"

Boston boutique Concepts and Nike SB got together on the Blue Lobster Dunk. Aside from the shoe, the packaging is really amazing, coming wrapped in a hazmat foam container.

Oh Max Wanger you come up with the best romantic/everyday concepts and photos ~ love the "100 Wishes" roll of tickets for ADELA + RICH in LA

Students at the Savannah College of Art & Design along with Freescale chip manufacturers have come up with an interesting lineup of Smartbook Concepts...have a look

"Dear American Airlines" is a conceptual redesign of the horrific AA.com user experience by Dustin Curtis. Imagine what they could do with a full, totally competent design team.

This is a conceptual design for a Bank in Switzerland. The technique of layering of translucency is used to partially disguise and simultaneously draw interest to the assumed value beneath.

Recently Sony encouraged some ID students from China to come up with eco-friendly products. Concepts like a showerhead music player, and conductor’s baton-styled TV remote were showcased.

La Cie's new Data Share ~ not sure how i feel about wanting it ~ but conceptually interesting ~ two drives in one, and you can insert microsd/SD cards in it as well

Hreinn Fridfinnsson makes awesome conceptual art.

Showcasing at Via Carlo Botta 8, Milan this week has been Love Design, an art and design project that has fun with the concepts of affection, desire, pleasure and romance, but also jealousy, distance, separation and pain.

The incredibly sleek Baby Grand Master is a DJ's dream, and an object of awe for any lover of conceptual design.

I´m trying to aggregate the behaviorist values of famous objects, cognitive motions, collective memories to everyday, ordinary products. This is the first of a series of concepts called Collective Memories in ID.
This plunger is obviously inspired by Alfred Hitchcock, Psycho, from 1960.

Computers for emerging markets - China, India, Turkey, Africa, Brazil. Cincinnati ID students created the concepts for HP. Hot laser cutting action! Wood computer!

A fun conceptual iPod dock, the E-Pod throws in the functionality of a speaker, movie projector and alarm clock all into one nicely designed product.

Sugar dishes that automatically refill themselves as you spoon out sugar. Plus... four other concepts for very practical kitchen tools.

Intersection magazine has just collaborated with KOXX in the conception of a beautiful fixed gear.

Street artist ABOVE just updated his website after a 24-month hiatus. This street artist has so many interesting concepts, and mediums and stories to tell. Make sure to check out the Travel Photo section as well.

Artist Rob Dobi has released Series 8 of Fullbleed.org- eight new conceptual teeshirts ripe for the wearing!

Lofted high above the trees, Mathier Collos’ conceptual EcoCoon retreats are outfitted with an array of sustainable features including rainwater collection, a greywater system, and biomass heating.

New server packaging concepts for Sun Microsystems utilizing reusable crates made out of recycled plastics. Everyone is thinking green but Sun sure made a statement

Conceptual art and fashion photographer August Bradley creates a new series of images for the Hasselblad Masters collection.

GM launches ChevroletDesign.com.... some pretty cool concepts!!

Francesco Castiglione Morelli and Tommaso Ceschi presented Epson two final concepts for a new home printer: new Epson stylus px700w and px800fw have been developed by Epson Design Center starting from these two ideas.

DIY gadget maker Bug Labs pairs up with IDEO to design some new UI concepts. Very cool stuff, from two very innovative companies.

The Strange Maps blog collects interesting map concepts, as well as found 'maps' like a puddle the shape of Australia.

Palais de Justice, conceptual design using the cross from Cross album by Justice, converted into a house on Santa Catalina island. By Paris/NY based architects Planda. Amazing video!

83 Design studio created conceptual furniture design that refresh our childhood memories. The stool “Hikoki” (aeroplane) and “Kataguruma” (piggyback) are designs based on childhood memories of playing with parents.

Designer Kaman Tung created her conceptual graduation “FAMILY” project. “FAMILY” includes the case chair, the backpack chair, the hanger chair and table.

Laimonas Stasiulis, uber cool photographer based in the UK! check out his works =] (wedding, conceptual, portraiture, commission, architecture)

Conceptual tattoos from surrealist tattoo artist Jean Francois Palumbo.

Moscow-based studio FIRMA, interesting concepts.

Designboom has a look at fentress architects concepts to modernize los angeles LAX airport ~ about time we get an update!

Bo-Young Jung and Emmanuel Wolfs is Draw Me a Sheep. They have created a few cool seating concepts inspired by the world’s debate on GMO products, eco-crisis and today’s struggling human relationship with nature and our desire for authenticity.

Seattle's Pensar Development branding design concepts for the Gekkeikan's Cap Ace sake bottle...

Adam Rowe's Victorian Grandfather Chair challenges our conceptions of material aesthetics, taking a cheap material and incorporating it into a modern adaptation of a classic shape.

Yuri Majic's conceptual design for a limited-edition Orangina bottle - designed around the French catchphrase "C'est la vie", and incorporating lyrics from Alanis Morissette's Ironic.

Great NASA Ames concepts from the early 1970s. Their future societies were tree-abundant and lush.

Founded in 2003 by product designer/carpenter René Mueller and forester Nina Griesshammer, Woodloops strives to “covey our original views to common behaviors, weaving known circumstances into new and curious concepts”.

Brian Jurgen created this collection of totemic representations of Native culture in Canada using iconic Michael Jordan athletic footwear to express and explore what he refers to his concepts as "Prototypes for New Understanding". This is #16

Franco Corral from Honda Research and Development North America has created a futuristic racing vehicle to compete in the Great Race 2025, circumnavigating the globe in 24 hours on land, by sea and by air.

Gorgeous, conceptual fashion photography by Phillip Toledano.

I'm loving Andy Velgos' Ring Studies - some very conceptual and amazing pieces to be found.

Kristin Graefe has some really nice information graphics and application concepts

The UK-based, Freshwest, showed this table at Tent London. Pool Table is made from 50mm acrylic with miniature diving board, reflected and refracted light in such a way that it resembled the depth and hue of an actual swimming pool.

Concepts for a new skincare line.

Nooka - trippy videos - The story unfolds as we fall through the universe and logic to discover time. Completely concepted, animated, directed and designed by yours truly.

Mitchell Feinberg is a fashion photographer creating "luxury still lifes". I love the abstract and conceptual nature of his photographs.

On interesting book cover concepts... models in boxes?

The Flexboard concept’s multiple positions allow teachers to use it for a variety of learning styles.

Cool bicycles made after the IKEA model. You put it together with three screws. Made by Bleijh Concepts and Design

Lime Studio, Shortlisted for The British Design Awards 2008, has worked with Levantina since 100% Futures 2007 exploring new materials including a porcelain ceramic tile to develop innovative furniture concepts.

Designboom has a great roundup of tiny houses, both built and conceptual.

Sou Fujimoto Architects' amazing TINY Next Generation House in Japan - conceptually, a house made out of jenga blocks.

KDDI au recently unveiled the conceptual PLY Mobile Phone - a tabbed phone/printer/digital projector/game controller all-in-one. Each tabbed layer has its own distinct function.

sneak preview of the Amsterdam introduction of Nike Sportswear in sneaker/conceptstore 290sqm
by creative agency ...,staat
(photo by Joachim)

Body panels made from locally grown hemp, water based paint, solar panels, manufacturing energy efficiency…the Lotus Eco Elise is more than just a car concept…

Don't look if you suffer from paranoia. Poster concepts to fight terrorism on public transport.

Advert Concepts for London 2012.

After exploding onto British highstreets two years ago with their H&M capsule collection, Dutch duo Viktor & Rolf are once again gracing us with their conceptualised work at their first UK exhibition, starting tomorrow at the Barbican.