Need a new sacrificing surface?  How about a work station to provoke your creative genus?  Well too bad, the Paint or Die but LOVE ME desk from Designer John Nouanesing is only a concept at the moment; I guess you’ll have to stick with the Pink Floyd and Mary Jane for those all-to-forgettable epiphanies. 
If this escritoire does go into production, it will probably do very well, as will it’s service department when it has to repair all those extra drips that keep getting in the way and breaking off.

*May not be appropriate for hemophobiacs.

When you don’t have your own bathroom the next best thing is toilet pages; just because you’re sharing a bathroom doesn’t mean you have to share herpes.  Toilet pages has nice iconic tabs that reminds you what task or for which person each seat is specifically designated.  Designer Jan Ctvrtnik has marked the tabs and seat layers for family use.   For instance, the first seat is designated for a toddler, but these could easily be changed to accommodate different circumstances.  If this great concept ever goes to market I imagine there will be various models to accouter common situations.   

The wooden double helix of the Geo Cocktail Table by Vito Selma is a beautiful example of how you can add flavor to your home by electing to go beyond standard furniture.  Not only is this coffee table perfect for any hard core geneticist, it’s chichi design from the Philippines will be sure to impress the boss’s art mongrel of a wife; and if you impress her, you impress him.

Designer Vito Selma is a full-time furniture designer and part-time photographer/interior designer; he also likes to blog.

Aside from the people with rabies, who doesn’t like water?  Designer Ozgur Onal apparently does, as he’s celebrated that love with a design as beautiful as it is functional.  DROPPA is a carafe meant to refresh your sense of beauty as well as your pallet.  The limpidity transcends visual stimulus with a mind-soothing effect that only comes when the most serene purities of nature are awakened with a dash of energy and captured in frozen space. 

The top half of this drop is the cup by where you invert to capture the watery contents of the stem.  If this design makes it to market, there’ll definitely be one at my house.

Scheisse is a product from Norway’s Northern Lighting company by desinger Hans Bleken Rud.  The large pendant lamp pays its respect to one of the most important inventions of all time. The Scheisse (exploding light bulb), is as much an experiment with light and shadow as it is a creative functional piece of furniture.  If only all our common goods could invoke such an appreciation for the creative, our lives would be that much brighter.

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  With all the high tech gear floating around these days, some people just want to bring back a taste of the simple life, like jotting down a note with an actual pen and sheet of paper.  Designer Arthur Se understands how to simplify and modify at the same time.  His design for a notepad phone utilizes a standard telephone with sheets of paper encasing the dial pad.  My Grandfather would love this if the keys were a little bigger.  We’ll make a note to send you a message if this design ever hits the market.

Perfect for high speed channel surfing!

Looking like the back end of a landspeeder, I like to call this the Star Wars Couch, although the designer, Philip Grass prefers to call it Accelerate. The above image is a digital prototype with the conceptual structure made of polyester resin, upholstered with polyurethane foam and topped with white leather. 
If this ever goes into production, Philip better be careful that George Lucas doesn’t come after him for the rights. 

I’m not sure this technically classifies as a bulb, but I don’t know what else to call it. 

Your first question might be “why?”, but I’ll then puerilely fire back, “why not“.  The real question is why haven’t we seen this design before?  The fact is, the flat bulb doesn’t take up as much space as a regular light bulb, it doesn’t roll around and break as easily as a regular light bulb, it’s easier to store and ship, and it provides the same amount of light as a regular light bulb…so again, why not? 

Displayed by Korean designer Joonhuyn Kim, at the 2008 100% Design Tokyo, the “Flat Bulb” doesn’t yet have a manufacturer, so you can’t run out and pick one up yet, but you can try to make your own by slowly applying pressure to both sides of a normal light bulb.

 
Don’t you just hate that cumbersome human-leg/table-leg interference that affects everyone on the corner spots during Thanksgiving dinner? This year, with the Levitation table by Alexandre Boucher you can alleviate three of those mildly annoying problems while severely screwing over just one person; maybe the uncle that used to touch you. Of course if you have a 40lb turkey you may not want to put it on the southwest edge of the table, or Thanksgiving might turn into Christmas for the dog. We also wouldn’t suggest kinky afternoon shenanigans on the Levitation table, a.k.a. a chicka-chicka-bow-bow on the dining surface; some forms of eating should stay in the bedroom.

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I like where Designer Ran Shnaper is going here, but A) I’m not sure there’s enough water dripping off my dishes to grow healthy plants, and B) there’s never enough room on the rack to begin with, I’m not sure I want herbs taking up valuable utensil space. 
I really do like the idea of having a drying rack that doesn’t need to encroach on the sink for drainage.  It’s also nice to think that I’m recycling.  The main problem here is that this product assumes I cook foods that require spices and that I don’t use the dishwasher to clean my mess; two gravely incorrect assumptions.

*Plastic sprout replicas are for holding dishes and glassware only, not intended for use as cooking herbs.