November 14, 2009 @ 3:16 pm
Harc Lee thought up this brilliant naked aluminum Coca-Cola can in order to reduce energy use in the manufacturing process. Because the can uses an imprinted Coca-Cola logo rather than a colored logo dying process, companies who make use of this can potentially get rid of toxic paint processes which harm the environment.
Whether you believe the environmental claims or not, I think making aluminum cans like this is awesome. I would love for a beverage company to do this.
September 14, 2009 @ 11:06 pm
This is pretty, isn’t it? It was made in 2006 by Stuart McFarlane using anodized aluminum. The pieces store safely in drawers on each side of the chess board and each piece has a neoprene base to prevent scratching on the chess board. I want one!
August 18, 2009 @ 12:19 pm
cw&t (consisting of design duo Che-Wei Wang and Taylor Levy) created this beautiful and simple stem for bicycles using a solid block of aluminum. It fits on a 1-1/8″ tube diameter and sells for $89. [via]
The neat and nice thing about this design is that cw&t have released the specifications under a Creative Commons license. So if you have your own metal mill you can download the spec sheet and build your own. Cool!
July 4, 2009 @ 10:48 am
This wooden ice cream scoop is quite elegant. A good alternative to the Zeroll aluminum scoop
Price: $16.
November 13, 2008 @ 3:07 am
The Dieline recently named the newly redesigned Coca-Cola aluminum bottles as the Platinum award winner in their beverage design category. From the product images above and below, you can see that the bottles are sleek, simple and bold. The bottles, designed by Turner Duckworth, remain instantly recognizable as Coca-Cola products while still being very fresh on the eyes.
I had opportunity to come across these bottles for the very first time tonight and I was so impressed by how beautiful they look as shelf items. I should have bought a bottle just to keep. I might go out and search for a bottle tomorrow.
November 9, 2008 @ 10:54 pm
As I was writing the entry for the Bible I recently received as a gift from my brother, I was having a look at the other Bibles available from Crossway and I saw this BattleZone Bible available for $29.99. The Bible is fully encased in a brushed-aluminum casing ensuring that the contents are well protected from the elements and any other stupidity that it may encounter.
If you don’t like the brushed aluminum look above, you can buy the BattleZone weathered metal Bible
