Week 6 : Bed design

According to wikipedia, a bed is a large piece of furniture used as a place to sleep, and as a primary place for relaxation and sexual activity. Today's beds usually consist of a mattress places on top of a box spring inner-sprung base. The box spring is a large mattress-sized box containing wood and springs that provide additional support and suspension for the mattress.

As for me, bed plays an important role which effects the environment of a place. For example, the overall environment of a room depends largely especially on the shape of a bed. Why i said so??? This is because nowadays, people are getting more and more fussy just because their urge are hunting more on the design of their bed. Therefore, designer nowadays no longer create the bed in rectangle shapes as before, they have become more and more creative which you can't imagined how they create those bed out.

Somehow, you will understand why i said so only after you have seen those pictures. Let's proceed to the pictures part.

#1- The Sonic Bed

The sonic bed is a king-size bed with 12-channel surround sound. It may look like a wooden tank from the outside, but inside its got enough speakers to dwarf any home theater set up.

#2- The Scoop!

Scoop! is a sophisticated and innovative answer to the demand for combinig the sofa function with the bed function. The two semi-circular sides of the bed can be separated resulting two new pieces of furniture. This bed is a great way to surprise your guests, and also you can be proud to have a stylish contemporary bed and two sofa’s in the same time.

#3- Quantum Sleeper, the "anti-terrorist" Bed

The Quantum Sleeper is a bed that hermetically seals itself as you sleep to protect you from Bio-Chemical terrorist attack, natural disaster, kidnappers/stalkers and affords Bulletproof 'Saferoom' protection."

#4- NapShell, an Egg-like Bed

Ergonomically designed to be good for your back and spine, the Napshell bed’s super comfy shaped mattress will fit a wide range of body types and heights.

#5- Molecular Bed

Made of 120 sofa balls covered with elastic fabric. It is inspired by a molecular structure, the basic form for all objects is the universe. If you are a playful person you can use it in many creative ways, because the structure of the feel allows to create multiple forms.

#6- The Lomme Bed

According to the product copy, owners of Lomme Bed will benefit from state of the art light and sound therapy, which remove outside disturbances and "allow you to wake naturally feeling refreshed and full of energy."

#7- The Hanging Bed

the bed is not actually hanging but, it does looks like floating on the floor.

#8- Hamburger Bed

Haven't you ever wanted to curl up inside a juicy hamburger? No? Well, too bad.

#9- Magnetic Floating Bed

This magnetic floating bed has enough magnets to keep 900 kilograms (1,984 pounds) floating in the air. To make sure that the bed doesn't float away because of hard wind or weird movements, it's tethered to the walls by four cables.

#10- Cosmovoide Bed

This luxury bed is shaped like an egg (to either give you Morkian dreams, or wrap you up in cozy cosmic harmony or some such nonsense), has hammock-like suspending springs, seven rainbow-colored LEDs, a telephone, and a DVD/home theater set-up including a TV at its foot. Most fascinating? Its twin "electric relaxation bed frames," which just get the mind boggling.

#11- The Computer Bed

The computer bed is a normal bed which makes an intelligent use of the space below the bed. The gas pistons enable the bed to double up as a computer table.

#12- Fantasy Coach, a Fairytale Bed

Wave your magic wand and this carriage may appear to make your little princess' dreams come true. This fanciful coach bed is the most extraordinary children's bed we've ever seen.

#13- Private Cloud, the Rocking Bed

Private Cloud is a patented rocking frame for a bed that moves back and forth like a rocking chair.

#14- BedUP, the Ceiling Bed

Suspended from the ceiling, this novel furniture piece can be accommodated in 4 sq mt space of your apartment. By day, the bed is stored on the ceiling, the under-surface becomes ceiling with the possibility of integrating lighting. At night, the bed can come down in the manner of an elevator and stops at the height previously requested, thus avoiding moving furniture that would have been placed underneath it.

#15- Coffin Bed

The Casket Furniture Company designed a bed for those who wants to know the feeling of sleeping in a coffin.

Reference from http://www.oddee.com/item_96623.aspx

Week 5 : Advertisement

Environmental Design however itself does relate to Media Innovation and both are linked with some similarities somehow. As from my personal point of view, advertising is one of the similarity that i am mentioned here. If i ask you guys what is advertising, sure a lot of people will think that advertising is actually the advertisement we see mostly from the TV, newspaper, magazines and so fort. But what if i ask you another way round, what advertising is mainly about and how deep we know the word advertising is???

What is advertising??

Advertising is paid communication through a non-personal medium in which the sponsor is identified, the message is controlled and normally persuasive in nature.

The slide that i copy from media innovation class

As for me, i've came across with an advertisement of a brand recently....i wondered did you guys here of the brand 'OLD SPICE'???

Old Spice has 71 years of experience helping guys improve their mansmells with deodorant, antiperspirant and fragrances.

And here are some of the videos i would like to share with you guys where their CREATIVITY hit to the TOP. I wondered how they manage to make it works??? Anyway, let us proceed to the video part^^

Week 5 : Lighting

As what has been stated from the Wikipedia, lighting or illumination is the deliberate application of light to achieve some aesthetic or practical effect. Lighting includes use of both artificial light sources such as lamps and natural illumination of interiors from daylight.

As from my personal point of view, lighting plays an important role as one of the main subject in an environment. It does make a big changes in the contrast of an environment.

Colorful Glass Lamps Ideas by Lucente – Noa

The Noa colorful glass lamp ideas was created by Lucente. This Noa glass lamps collection consists of table, floor and ceiling glass lamps available in various colors and sizes. The design of the lamp is simple and very flexible as a floor lamp, ceiling-mounted and also wall mounted designs, not only comes with modern looks and stylish, but also save energy, saving light bulbs that will maximize the energy.

Lamp by Marcus Tremonto – Carbon 451

This super unique flat and curvy pendant lamp was created by American artist and American designer Marcus Tremonto. This latest project is made of carbon fibre and electroluminescent electronic paper. It enables to give special lighting surrounding your interior.

Artistic Lamp Design by Lula Dot Studio - Light Reading

Have you ever seen an artistic lamp is made from recycled paper and books?? This unique and extraordinary lamp called Light reading chandelier and yes, this lamps was made from recycled paper and book. From the picture, you can see that every page is folded in half, delivering a circular arrangement which hangs around a ceiling light. This creative job was did by studio of British designer Lucy Norman, Lula Dot.

Week 4 : The LITTLE PiPit

Went for the Pipit 4th Anniversary + Wonderful Market 5 or u can named it as DESIGNER's day which is located at the Pasar Seni yesterday. As you know, the LITTLE PIPIT is an art + hand made's merchandise and designer brand by Pipit. All the art on the product is one and the only which is not for sale at the market out there. It is held once a year and a place for all the designer to promote their product there.

As for me, i am quite satisfied and happy this time although the environment there was hot. I know i couldn't blame of it because there was really pack with lots of people until we were forced to stuck at the middle. In the end, i do enjoy myself there because i am able to see and know all kinda stuff which their creativity kick to the TOP.

By the way, I will share some of the photos which has been taken by me during my visit there with you guys.

The key holder

The cute hair pin which is decorated in terms of flower

The 'bugaboo' doll

The cute purse...i like especially the orange color one

The creative notebooks

The cute decorative items...i like most of them because they are all in yellow

The artistic handphone straps (they are in camera forms)

The handphone hanger..they are sooooo cute^^

The tissue holder (aren't they looks cute???)

And here i've went to the upper stair where some 3d miniature stuffs were found there. They are being designed in different concept. Let us proceed to the pictures instead ♥

The concept of bag shop

The concept of kid store

The concept of food store

The concept of toy store

The concept of piano room

I like this concept the most

It is the concept of a cake shop which is lovely decorated

We can see how hard the designer has put in her effort in order to make it out

The concept of cafe

The concept of printing shop

The concept of herbal tea shop

The concept of the lovely ice-cream shop...yummy...i like ice-cream^^

The concept of massage shop

They are all handmade and in mini size...i was wondered how they gonna make those mini stuffs with their big hand??? Maybe it is kinda hard for me because my hand is quite clumsy sometimes...out of my control most of the time...but i will try my best since my project 2 is some sort regarding to this. Will update my blogs recently...

Week 4 : Project 2

We are given on another assignment on designing a bus stop in 3D form. The actual size of the bus stand is fixed as what had been given by our lecturer, Mr. Zulkiffli. We are also being teached on how to built a mini bus stop by cutting, pasting and combining all the card boards together under his guidance. At the very beginning, we are required to choose on a local brand where we need to design the templates out and make it as one of the theme for our bus stop.

According to Wikipedia, a bus stop is a designated place where buses stop for passengers to board or leave a bus. These are normally positioned on the highway and are distinct from off-highway facilities such as bus stations. The construction of bus stops tends to reflect the level of usage. Stops at busy locations may have shelters, seating and possibly electronic passenger information systems; less busy stops may use a simple pole and flag to mark the location and 'customary stops' have no specific infrastructure being known by their description. Bus stops may be clustered together into transport hubs allowing interchange between routes from nearby stops and with other public transport modes.

Therefore, bus stop can function well as a place where advertisement took place. Since it is a place to wait for buses, people can spent their time by looking on those advertisements which have been paste on the bus stop’s wall instead. In my opinion, by promoting a brand through the usage of a bus stop is an effective way indeed.