New Blogging Service & Layout

I'm going to be trying out a new blogging service and layout for my blogs.

Here are the links for the new blogs:
Design Blog | Personal Blog | Cooking Blog

How A Web Design Goes Straight to Hell

Beautiful Vases

Curl Vase by Kimberly Manne of Warp Design:










These have to be the coolest, most graceful contemporary industrial vases I've ever laid eyes on. They come in different sizes, too.


Volcano #39 by Emogayu:










Japanese artist Emogayu developed these series of amazing vases titled Volcano and Flow, though I'm of the opinion that it could just as well have had Moon after looking at the top view of some of these, they carry a very balanced and graceful organic form. I would seriously recommend checking out the other pieces from these series.


Hidden Vase by Dan Yeffet of JellyLab:
This organic vase gets its name due to the central shaft cloaked by a delicate branch structure around it.

Onion Vase by Iris Zohar:

These onion vases were designed by Iris Zohar to stretch the limits between what is natural and what is artifical.


Spiral Bud Vase by Michiko Maekawa of Martha's Vineyard Glassworks:
Very beautiful minimalist glass vases to display only one stem of flower.


Tree Vase by Jennifer Fisher of Jfish Designs:
Slipcast ceramic branch-like vases hold small flowers and be overlapped to produce a denser organic cluster.


Roots Vase by Humantouch:
This elegant vase very simply, and stylistically replicates plant roots.



Bouquet Vase by VisuallyOd:
These vases are composed of individually slipcast porcelain branches that are tied up together to create a freeform sculptural vase.


Unvase by Designdot:


This one is like one of those Rorschach inkblot tests. The negative space between the two pieces forms a vase in of itself which is intended to provoke reflection about how it can be looked upon from different points of view.


Grass Vase by Claydies:

These unique grass vases were developed by Claydies with the comment "Grass has a very naive ceramic expression that is both uplifting and amusing."

Chocolate Records and Dream Balls

With huge chocolate sales coming up right after Single's Awareness Day (aka Valentine's Day), found that there was a lot of inspiration behind these chocolate records which appeals to all 5 senses: See, Touch, Smell, Hear and Taste.


Moreover, with all the packaging that goes to waste especially during specific holidays throughout the year, this particularly delightful concept called Dream Ball from Unplug Design illustrates how relief containers could be patterned to be made into soccer balls could serve as further inspiration.



This is the story behind Dreamball:

“To the children in The Third World; Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Somalia, Congo and etc, who can’t enjoy football freely because of poverty, war and natural disaster, having a football means a lot and can be a dream and hope to escape from their poor life.

However, the children are so poor that they can not buy a football. So, they play football with the ball made of plastic bag or coconut palm leaves, therefore giving them their own footballs which can give them hope. This is our aim for this project.

We suggest this Dream Ball made of relief boxes delivered to those poor children by recycling.

A. Create patterns that can help making a ball on the surface of an aid box.
B. Activities of giving aid boxes to children in The Third World.
C. The used aid boxes will be recycled as a football by children with the patterns on boxes.
D. By making Dream Ball with the children together, the aid organizations will get the chance to be friendly with them.”