Interesting product and furniture design

I have always been interested in product and furniture design and today I chanced upon this product design website on accident. I was totally fascinated by the intriguing designs that were possibly thought about by the the product designers. Like people, products are often packaged on the outside in order to appeal more consumers. But who says that product designs are boring and dull? Like clothes, they come in various designs and patterns. It not only is interesting, it also makes us wonder aloud how these designers are able to come up with such brilliant designs (!)

See that short tagline "Clean your plate or whatever you want/ Kitchen sponge"? This is a simple design of a sponge (top) that is packaged to mimic cheese being sold in a supermarket. But though simple, it never fails to bring smiles onto one's face.This design reminds me of Taiwanese singer, Gary Cao's supermarket album (bottom) not long ago. It is interesting to bring the design element into our everyday life, giving us consumers that tinge of surprize.

This is a series of winter soups packaged into promotional heat resistant cardboard sleeves slotted into existing cups. This though may look plain, and nothing interesting to be talked about, it emcompasses not only the idea behind the design but at the same time helps to transmit the message to its audience. See the pattern of this design? The knitted wool that one wears during winter (when it's cold). It emphasizes on the ability to be able to be resistant to heat, but also on the speciality of the soup-handmade (as indicated on the cup). Likewise, knitted wool conveniently helps to convey this point as well, hand-knitted. How nice is this design!

This design (top) makes use of typography, which makes it simple, easy to comprehend and instantly attractive to one. The size, the colour and even the postition plays a huge difference to the design. In this case, it conveys the message straightforwardly to its audience. Somehow, this design reminds me of the ilford photo paper package (bottom). Perhaps due to the font used, especially the size of it.

This chocolate keeps the idea of braking the chocolate bar into its mini pieces, but in this case into the mini scrabble pieces. There is a similar design in our supermarkets now, not only are they chocolate scrabbles, there is also the chocolate monopoly. Which allows the consumers to play with the chocolate pieces and then allow the winner of the game to eat the delicious chocolate up! Perfect for a scrabble/monopoly-chocolate lover.

This is my most favourite design (designed by a Japanese)! Not only is this interesting, it also helps to bring the message across to its audience too! I guess you would know what this product is, it is banana juice! How appropriate this is! It replicates the real banana fruit onto the product and gives the product a whole new refreshing look. If this were to be sold in our supermarkets, I would definitely buy cartons of them home. How lovable they are! You would too feel really happy when drinking them as well.

All these designs really make me wonder how these designers are able to think of such splendid ideas given the constraints and pressure. Their imagination is just, mindblowing. I want to be like them, designing such adorable products that not only gives them that sense of satisfaction when their designs are being manufactured on the large scale, but also when their consumers smile delightfully at the concept and idea of the design that they painstakingly came up with.

Images taken from:

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/06/02/beautiful-and-expressive-packaging-design/