Beautiful seven red wine glasses to depict each of the deadly sins – Greed, Envy, Lust, Gluttony, Wrath, Sloth and Pride. Hand made by genius designer Kacper Hamilton based in London, each glass sin is revealed through the ritual of drinking. The limited edition sets can be ordered and comes in a mahogany, velvet and brass case. If you love these wine glasses check out Marta Dahlig fantasy art of the seven deadly sins as well.

More of the seven deadly sins wine glasses with 8 more pics after the jump.

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Portuguese group Studio Verissimo has designed and created this amazing chandelier out of hundreds of recycled coffee stirrers collected from various cafes. It created quite a stir at the recent Touch/New York exhibition during New York Design Week. The eye catching chandelier is called ‘Spoon’ apparently derived from the plastic stirrers. Great effort to show the innovative ways that we can come up with to reuse throw away materials.

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Transparent House is a 3D visualization or architectural rendering studio that have created a design concept to apply patterns into the concrete floors either when pouring or afterwards when the concrete has set in. These floral designs are a great way to enhance the ambience of any room.

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This cool looking tea house is entirely made out of paper and cardboard. Created by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban, it is part of a sale of Japanese art and design held by auctioneer Philips de Pury and Company. Constructed using square paper tubes, the tea house is designed for indoor use and houses a table and four stools. It also features a waiting area with a bench for tea ceremony practice.

The paper constructions aim to address the current trend of unattainable design of high-tech and instead uses low tech, adaptable and recyclable materials. It will be offered for sale at an estimate of £20,000-30,000.

7 more pics of the paper tea house by Shigeru Ban after the jump.

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Orestad College, the new Danish school is the school designed for the future with its big mall look and great interior design. It offers fields of study in science, social science and human science. Each student gets a free laptop and the school is installed with wireless available everywhere. The school is very well furnished and the orange pillows in the hallway looks very comforting for a good relaxation.

Check out 5 more pics of the school of the future after the jump.

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One of a kind door chain that protects your home against unauthorized entry. The person would have to solve the maze in order to open the door. A novel artistic idea but it won’t guard perfectly against a forced entry and would be cumbersome to open for an emergency.

Cast:

Art Director – Artemy Lebedev
Designer – Oleg Morev
Industrial Designer – Konstantin Chirkov
Modeler – Alexey Zalata
Visualizator – Dmitry Dolgih
Manager – Vera Dorofeyeva

2 more pics of the Defendius door chain after the jump.

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Cool gadget designed by Tom Lawton that uses wind powered outdoor light. The wind blows from any direction the Firewinder spins and creates cool visual effect. The Firewinder was in development for six years and currently the gadget is patented and available for preorder.

6 more pics and 1 videoclip of the Firewinder in action after the jump.

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Frankie Flood designed a number of pizza cutters based on high tech designed which was inspired by chopper motorcycles. The artist statement ‘My work investigates one of a kind objects and their role in a world based on mechanical reproduction. Industry has removed the aura from objects and stripped them of their individuality. My pizza cutters seek to demolish the sterile conformity of mass produced objects and represent the stylistic and flamboyant embellishment of groups who live on the fringe of popular culture.’

4 more pics of the ultra high tech designed pizza cutters by Frankie Flood after the jump.

Source: Gadgettastic

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A series of exquisite women purse designed Kathleen Dustin becomes wearable art. Why purses? Because a figurine or sculpture just sits collecting dust but purses are functional, enhances your life and is wonderful to carry beautiful things around you says Kathleen.

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The Newspaper House is an art project where members of the public are encouraged to participate in dropping newspapers as well as helping by rolling them into sticks to build this public installation of a house made out of newspapers. It is funded by Unltd, the Arts Council England and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. An interesting and great collaborative effort to strengthen ties with people.

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The winner for the City of the Future contest for architects sponsored by The History Channel goes to IwamotoScott Architecture for conjuring these great futuristic hallucinations of San Francisco that runs by geothermal power. The envisioned city called Hydro-Net extracts heat and water from deep underground.

Check out 9 more pics of the futuristic city Hydro-Net by IwamotoScott Architecture after the jump.

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Heerim Architects a Korean firm has secured two projects in Azerbaijan that reinvents the traditional into lunar inspired skyscrapers. These two will be on opposite extremes and acts as gateway markers. The Hotel Full Moon is a disc with round edges and a hole in one of the top corners and the counterpoint would be Hotel Crescent that will resemble the curving arc of a crescent moon.

4 more photos of the Full Moon Rising project after the jump.

Source: Skyscraper News

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One of a kind fish tank design that defies the laws of gravity. The pull of gravity would have made it very difficult for the water to stay up and overflown the tank. It would also be a nightmare to clean up those clear pipes when the water gets bleaker. Well the fish does seem to be happier with their bigger space though.

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A novel idea to stop those speeders and it would definitely be fun to watch those expressions when they hit on the brakes to realize that there’s a pothole on the road and found nothing but stickers in the end.

2 more pics of the creative speed limit device after the jump.

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Weird design of a modified motorbike using a sketon framework that would scare the hell out of people on a dark street. Cool or lame, I would choose the latter as it looks silly to ride a bike like this just to grab attention. 3 more pics of the skeleton bike after the jump. Source: Pause At Work

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