Recently we reported on transforming your wall into a projector screen with a special paint. The reason was to find a way to have a projector screen without having a big ugly screen prominent in your living room. An Italian designer found an other smart and good looking way to hide a projector screen: in a bookshelf. You can also get bookshelves in the same design without a screen in it to make a more natural look. On the Italian website you can find the Livit Fly in different colors under (...)  read more

First of all: unfortunately this simply perfect idea is just a concept. If you feel this Droog Design has inspired you to put it into production or you have any ideas on how to build it yourself; please let us know!  The idea of the Function Tiles is to put function into plain bathroom tiles. For example this hidden drawer. Ideal for a designer bathroom where half empty bottles of shampoo and pieces of soap lying around is an absolute no-go. For other examples of function tiles search (...)  read more

Buying writable CDs is often cheapest if you buy them on a spindle. But without any jewel cases (since you just used them to build a piece of art) all those loose CDs can easily damage. David Curry shows us the solution: paper lunch bags. By cutting off an inch and a half from the open end of a lunch bag you can create a foldable and closable case for your CDs. You can glue some printed cover art on it but if you find the right kind of paper bag you might be able to print the cover art (...)  read more

People have always been intrigued by fire. And being able to control it should give us  a deep inherited feeling of might. But that strange desire of having a controlled fire in our living rooms can produce beautiful designer fireplaces. The Spark Fire Ribbon looks amazing and can create warmth in any cool designed living room without having to go for an old English-style fireplace. As the image below shows, the living room is not the only room that would look good with a Fire (...)  read more

Often the most unusual phones don't get further than the drawing board and remain to be a concept. The first pictures of the O2 Cocoon look like it's just another designer's toy and will never see the real world. But this phone is actually already in use in the UK and it has some pretty nice specs too. The Cocoon has 2 GB internal memory and can be expanded with a MicroSD card. It has a 2 mega pixel camera with auto focus, flash and zoom, an FM radio receiver, a Windows Media Player (...)  read more