Boyfriends beware... fights with girlfriends just got a tiny bit more dangerous thanks to XKCD's love note concept that got made into a real "virus".

Puma and W Hotels join forces. Now guests of W Hotels can design their own sneakers and get them delivered home. A special tray with choices of colors and materials has been made. Great concept and idea!

Awesome F1 Lawn Mower Concept

Bug Labs - cute logo ~ cute projects ~ great concept of open source hardware

Designer Seungchan Lee reimagines the dog bowl with this sillicone suction mat and tilted dog bowl insert. Concept only now...great concept, though!

Volitan” is a new lightweight and futuristic concept boat for circumnavigating the rivers and seas, using solid-sails and only wind power and solar energy.Her name comes from “flying fish” and she is a new symbol of raising awareness about sustainable use of resources on the sea.

Suzuki's concept X-Head, also known as TONKALICIOUS

Designer Alex Suvajac created this A.FrameFix concept track bike that, despite its highly technical and space-age appearance was inspired by a frog. Nature meets technology.

Awesome emergency accommodation with sophisticated social concept by Felix Stark.
Stunning!

Toast Concept ~ really fun UI on this flashy portfolio site

Cocoon sleeping bag? Interesting concept by John Moriarty ~ i do worry about what happens when a bear finds you though... pinata?

Volvo's new eco-friendly hybrid concept ReCharge, absolutely beautiful.

Ericsson redesign the horizon.

Corks with hidden LEDs that light up your drinks - The Cork Light Concept by Won-Gye Na

Topiade is a lay-over facade structure designed to renew an existing Louis Vuitton store building without a major reconstruction. The concept of topiary and the French garden were taken to extend and exhibit the luxurious quality of Louis Vuitton.

This is a CONCEPT music player that can play both mp3s and cds. Definitely a very cool idea. by Yong-Seong Kim

Because one slice of toast is never enough. Or you have five friends. Radical Six Part Toaster Concept by Matt Gossington

Quick Cup - Anybody fancy a brew? Turn temperate tap water a scorching ninety degrees celsius in just three seconds with this 'kettle killer'! Great time and energy saving concept from Tefal.

Interesting concept/design at The Funded ~ a social ratings site on Venture Capital Firms.

FEATUREDBenjamin Hubert has some great concept designs using polystyrene - like these HUG pots... and some bird houses... and just some other great designs in general to check out.

Graeme Attey of Fremantle designed the concept which uses a modular wind turbine that is small enough to sit on a the roof of house.

Oryx is an innovative time trial bike concept with a one-sided fork and chain-stay. Due to its Y-frame shape, it's comfortably shock-proof without loosing ground contact. Designer: Harald Cramer

Not everyone wants an iPhone, but what about Tiffany & Co. iPhone jewelry complete with gems and iPhone icons? I call them iGems, and yes, they are just a concept.

Beautifully designed AC Adapter concept that monitors power consumption.

FEATUREDBowflex has SelectTech weights where you can basically dial a weight... interesting concept/design

This may look like one of those "concept" products, but Nike's curved Triax Vapor LCD watch is anything but vaporware.

Art. Lebedev Studios announces their latest concept - the Folderix flash drive. Finally a flash drive i'd buy!

The Cup Ring from Floyd, designed by Yusuke Fujinuma and Yoko Yamazaki. Nice concept, adorable when held.

FEATUREDSyntes Studios shares some behind the phone sketches and concept renderings... and of course i also have pictures of the final O2 Cocoon to complement them as well.

Only thing more beautiful than a great design ~ is a great concept and story behind it. Take a look at the video with Worrell designer Dan Clements about his new Wiegen stroller.

Compenion - by Felix Schmidberger, is a concept laptop featuring two OLED for a complete touch sensitive laptop experience.

Shade Blades - The ultimate in designer UV protecting eye wear complete with visor and retracting lenses.

Puma and Biomega get together for an interesting folding urban city bike and its not just a concept but will be released later this month at Puma Stores worldwide!

Sony's eco-friendly ODO concept devices that never need recharging. The attractive and bold collection includes digital cameras, MP3 player and an image/movie viewer...just push, pull or crank to power!

The Lazy Teapot, relieving you of actually picking up a teapot and pouring its hot water into a cup. Designer Lotte Alpert created a design concept for this teapot and its holding device which boils the water and keeps it warm.

The Mushroom Forest Table Series is a new table design concept from Bay Area Designer Thomas Wold. Too cute, perfect for playful waiting spaces or elementary schools?

The Nikon 360 Degrees Digital Camera will allow you to take "unbroken" panoramic shots. Design Concept!

CD player (2007) yong jieyu + ama - A 2 day workshop with Joris Laarman - such a beautiful design concept

Where's My Jetpack? Love this book cover... not to mention the concept "A Guide to the Amazing Science Fiction Future that Never Arrived"

FEATUREDEarnest Cut & Sew Concept Store is all about customization. Mix and match your buttons and soak in the gorgeous decor, complete with stunning wood installations and Jorg & Olif Dutch Citybikes on display.

New form of TOASTER by Arthur Wu. Clean and funny concept.

5 Min Friend - if you have a webcam you can meet random people for 5 minutes... interested concept... feels like speed dating/friendship? but you can never meet them again?

The Butterfly is a beautifully designed, classy looking concept phone. The details and specs are truly stunning. Amazingly, it was designed by a 15 year old kid, too.

Riding on a tide of interest in personal submersibles, these stunning Duo Beta and Trio Alpha concepts from Guillermo Sureda-Burgos look like they have been pulled straight from a sci-fi flick.

"rolling cube" radio,Rolling & Tumbling.

Whitedecay is an online retail and design concept which encourages interaction and the exchange of ideas for designers across the globe.Recently launch the new 07 spring tee collections

Modular 3D Wallpaper is a new concept in surface coverings that gives individuals the ability to customize and re-define space on a budget

The Cyberoptix TieLab joins All Purpose in L.A. to illustrate the concept of James Dean's 1955 car crash - "Whiplash" - intricate prints of auto part schematic illustrations repeated and mirrored into complex, twisted patterns.

A wonderful concept of a parking garage by russian architect Melnikov. Designed in 1925 for Paris as a bridge over the Seine.

Asus Aura, produced by Hungarian design company Egy Studio for Taiwanese vendor. Great concept for a cell!

This futuristic scooter is still just a concept desperately waiting for someone to pick it up.

FEATURED TASTESPOTTING ~ notcot.org's first sister site... same concept, same style, but 10 times more delicious. Designers need to eat too... so here's some food worthy of the designer plates we love.

Mazda's newest concept, The Ryuga, cool pics. @
dieselstation, great imagery

An excellent idea to setting up a wireless lan. With style, no wire, everywhere you want in your house. [Editor's note: fascinating wifi concept(?) using light bulb sockets]

Benq Siemens Concept Phone. Not a single Phone, not a single Personal Assistant, not a simple camera. All of these thanks to an interactive screen

Concept for a new type of telephone, looking back to simple action. No camera, no GPS, no MMS, no Internet navigation. Just dial and talk

The Future Is Now!- Info Swapping Ring. What an amazing concept, would love to see it make Fruition.

LG's new concept laptop using edge to edge OLED displays for both the keyboard and display, and blue methanol liquid fuel in a transparent cylindrical hinge.

Concept storage solution by Tom Seymour.

it's 3am and i'm confused but i guess its news. Gap Inc's latest store - Piperlime? (wha?) and they sell hundreds of designer shoes... and they have guest editors. The branding/concept feel very zappos meets starburst?

... amazing research concept by nokia.

salvor kiosk is an awesome store and interesting concept. country-specific shopping?

city rings, cute concept.

Cool Concept: A LED Scale built into a cutting board...

furNATURE. Get it? While the name makes me groan. The concept if simple but refreshing...

SUNJAR - captures - SUN. I can't even begin to describe how much i love this concept/implementation... so go drool over it... i want one, or two, or some for every window.

pull alarm clock concept

interesting concept - where your phone (ringing with calls, messages, alarms) is directionally amplified by the stemless wineglass

FreePeople has RSS feeds of their new products - i love this concept - i like seeing actual sites for blogs - but RSS'ing to keep up on shopping is pretty nice.

"Turnover" is a new E-Reader concept that has a screen that is rotated to the back refreshes the next page during the turning action, thereby stimulating a whole book or magazine with only two pages.

FREE FONT! Origami - aka nice hard 45 degree angles? cool concept though...

The graffiti table its a concept (im working on the prototype) made freom glass and laser cutted, powder coater steel sheet, it comes from the tags and bombs of NY graffiti.

i remember seeing these at moss in NYC - but then i forgot about them... not loving the concept - but its interesting - it leaves "forever yours" embedded in your finger when you take it off...

via designbot - awesome tshirt concept store in chicago

kinky peeps? interesting concept though -

Striker Concepts LED Lights - fascinating designs - from LED mines with 11 neodymium rare Earth magnets to stick at any angle, to triple LED panels that screw into a light bulb socket, to flexible/magnet LED panels and more.

"The astounding bid to designate Trump’s border wall concepts as land art" in Wallpaper. You can see the 'Prototypes' in Otay Mesa, CA.

"Faraday" by Amir Zobel is a desktop container which blocks reception of the mobile phone placed inside, generating a ritual of detachment from the phone in order to direct attention to those present.

The physical TWIST collection has been an incredible collaboration between many talents that grace the Pinch studio. From Marjorie Artieres who so cleverly took our concepts and created an evolving modular design showcasing the art of cocktail making…

UPS eBike - electrically assisted tricycles have begun delivering packages in Portland, OR. The eBike can be operated solely on battery power or pedal power.

Mr. Bailey x ekn footwear KUDZU Slip-on.
Sustainably & ethically produced in Portugal, the shoe fearures a one-piece vegetable tanned leather upper with a recycled, magnetically fastened, removable Neoprene bootie.

Codes project. Digital images of the Argentine artist Guillermo Jones. The works on paper are accompanied by magnifying glasses to investigate its materiality and conceptual texts contain.

MoMo Modular Furniture by TACADI, is a flexible modular furniture that seeks to merge the concepts of solid and ethereal, creating practical and minimalist space configurations.

Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant contacted conceptual design studio Lernert & Sander to create a piece for a special documentary photography issue about food: 98 unprocessed foods cut into extremely precise 2.5cm cubes aligned on a staggered grid.

Fasted by Studio Dessuant Bone. Tableware stripped of its function.

Mass of Time by Kacper Hamilton. A conceptual instrument that weighs predefined periods of time using a set of scales and a sand timer.

Conceptual packaging for Beehive Honey Squares by Lacy Kuhn.

Colin Barras takes a look at The Twisted World of Sexual Organs: How evolution solved the problem of conception for BBC Earth.

Casio EXILIM Split Camera - Camera unit and controller are Bluetooth connected and splash/dust proof. Concepts like these have been floating around for years, fun to see one making it to market.

The studio Ami Drach & Dov Ganchrow has designed a brand new 3D printing flint collection 'Man Made'. They have conceptualized a series of 3D printed accessories - handles, sleeves, and supports, adaptable to flint.

Mark, a modernistic white bookcase system, by Dima Loginoff.

Finnish artist Sanna Kannisto's photography explores the theories and concepts with which we approach nature in art and science. [Editor's Note: Amazing look at how the subjects are mounted!]

Rendez-Wood, explores possibilities of Icelandic wood as a production material in the near future. Project by Product Design students at the Iceland Academy of the Arts.

Mira Schroder from experimental studio Bless takes things to a more ‘personal’ level by creating the Workbed, fusing a work desk and a bed into a singular conception.

Paolo Schirpa talks to the Creator's Project about his light art and the concepts of infinity.

Made using hand cut stencils and a coffee based food grade dye. Printing concepts by John Mohr and Alex White.

Goldie Blox ~ interesting building block series targeted at girls to learn engineering concepts.

Kevin Harald Campean's conceptual first aid kit packaging.

3D-printed casts for fractured bones could replace the usual bulky, itchy and smelly plaster or fibreglass ones in this conceptual project by Victoria University of Wellington graduate Jake Evill.

Harmony Stool mixes the concepts of chaos and order. This beautiful high stool produced by Poliform and designed by Rodrigo Torres, was presented at Milan's design week 2013.

Cut Food by Beth Galton - Creative and dynamic photos of food cut in half.

Nothing Fancy Minimal Wallet by Chieh. Exactly as it sounds, lovely photography for this collection of wallet concepts!

Jasmin Lai's beautiful and adorable kite girl digital doodles - i hope they become something more!

Until the advent of the computer, drawing was a universal tool for communicating architectural concepts. Architect (and talented drawer) Luigi Rosselli shares his thoughts on the importance of drawing to today’s architects.

VIDEOAndrew Spitz, Ruben van der Vleuten and Markus Schmeiduch's Blind Maps, a conceptual handheld interactive smart phone maps accessory created as part of a 36 hour project for the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design.

Invisible Love, an interesting conceptual ring from SashaPure (Sasha Tseng), whose facets are only a part of the packaging.

Presented at imm Cologne 2013, Slagbaenk is a conceptual kitcen bench/ wall bench (slagbaenk) designed by Rasmus B. Fex living in the borderland between art and design.

VIDEORobert DeLong's new video for Global Concepts was produced by Sam Stephens & Charles Whitcher, set design by SOFTlab, and creative tech by Noah Zerkin.

Thomas Barbéy uses his photos to create artistic montages of a imaginary concepts, which are technically made with a combination of negatives or pre-planned double exposures.

Web Design for Babies 2.0 Geeked Out Lift-The-Flap Edition - HTML, CSS and JavaScript come to life, introduce basic code concepts to your little ones!

Alessia Olivari's conceptual packaging for pasta for one.

Eliooo is an instruction book about how to build a hydroponic system to grow plants, herbs, or vegetables in your apartment, using IKEA components.

For its first participation at Maison & Objet, Mobile Concepts presents the collection of outdoor furniture: 'Villa Caterina' signed by the designer Marc Aurel.

The OCT Design Museum, designed by Studio Pei-Zhu, focuses mainly on fashion shows, product design, and conceptual automotive shows. The goal was to create a space that is surreal to the subject matter.

Flora & Fauna, Dan Hinde's conceptual packaging design for a new brand of Scotch whisky, which included naming the brand, an identity design, packaging and a container.

The Cube brand book is based on a conceptual identity investigation, with an emphasis placed on color and craft. By Brandon Boston.

Series 12 of Fullbleed, a series of conceptual art based t-shirts by Rob Dobi that explore a world of impossible ideas.

Conceptual artist Mary Kelly on dryer lint, her lack of routine, and her work with Ray Barrie 'Habitus: Type I' 2010 at Postmasters.

James Utley, Keith Jernigan, Aubree Barnett, Zack Gulliani and Jordan Bell's conceptual packaging for Ipswich brewing Company Root Beer.

Reé Chen's conceptual packaging for Lumina, a new range from Shu Uemura.

The new lamp with mountain landscape plafond by iF Product Design Winner 2012 - russian designer Dima Loginoff.

Meike Harde's beautifully streamlined conceptual handmixer design, Quix, inspired by chocolate!

FEATUREDOur favorite Geometric Lighting Designs - everything from design classics to modern designs to futuristic living concepts! Love how many of these start flat packed and are fun/easy to assemble into large pendant lamps!

Emily Hale's conceptual packaging for a wine which pays tribute to the memory of Harvey Milk.

Morey Talmor's beautiful conceptual packaging for rehabilitation drugs.

Jon Pope's futuristic earth movers are lustworthy design concepts!

Sculptor Zhan Wang conceptualizes the depths of the galaxy in his latest exhibition My Personal Universe, at the UCCA.

Le Bar, functional aperitif bar made of painted aluminium and the unique driftwood of the Camargue by Concepts by Catherine.

Poster by Figurez-vous for Lambou Opticien - Paper art, amazing conception - Collaboration of Figurez-vous and The Wizard. Have a look of the making of!

There are those who grow bacteria to prepare yoghurt or study new drugs. Erno-Erik Raitanen uses them to compose graphical works, bacteriograms that would give elaborate digital images a run for their money, in fact…

The Greenhouse Project in Brooklyn, a conceptual “pop-up farm” to be built in Cypress Hills as part of 2011 DesignNYC round of nonprofit and design collaborations..

Sometimes the friendly slopes turn hostile and every bit of survival skills needed. Jung Hoon Lee, Jung Eun Kim and Hyun Min Lee have conceptualized a snowboard/post with an OLED Safety Light embedded into the surface.

Conceptual nail packaging by Pier-Philippe Rioux.

Sensing the Future. Designers 'feel' the future and Whirlpool envisages it through concepts that reinterpret traditional forms and turn them into emotional rituals, transforming through technology.

Mind bending public art piece by German collective Inges Idee with a great description of how it was conceptualized and fabricated.

Conceptual whiskey bottle / packaging design. Made from the actual aging barrel, the label can be removed to be used as a coaster or simply as a collectible once the bottle goes dry.

Conceptual package design by Jonathan Davies (Incipere Design).

Conceptual artwork of Hong Kong based artist Jon Leung, playfully dealing with the famous CCTV building in Beijing by Rem Koolhaas.

Conceptual art-work by Andre Hemer from Sydney.

Don't you just love these! Great gallery featuring more then 40 new colorful minimal movie poster concepts by ChungKong.

City water, with map of Paris bump on the body of bottle. Lovely conceptual packaging by Dzmitry Samal.

de culinaire werkplaats, an eating concepts restaurant that among other specialties is particularly known for its fruit and vegetable paper.

Apomechanes is an intensive 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.

FEATUREDFiretrucks, rubberband ipad holders, mod hut with cinderblock stove and more... Toyota's Ideas For Good winning concepts come to life at this prototyping weekend with Deeplocal at Carnegie Mellon.