Category — Design

Japanese industrial designer Naoto Fukasawa created these eye-catching juice containers.

The design imitates the texture, skin, and color of the fruit juices within the containers to create this clever and innovative packaging design.

The banana boxes have already made their way onto store shelves and we hope the others will too!

Via LostAtEMinor

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Moscow-based designer Arthur Schreiber has created this cool concept for a vodka bottle inspired by Samurai.

Vodka Samurai by Arthur Schreiber

Via Liquirious

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One of the latest by the previously posted Mu Pan. Its an origamu paper sculpture of a Japanese Army bike!

More on Mu Pan’s Flickr account

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This gorgeous piece of art is a purchasable Sushi-Ushi sushi tray by designer Vikki Smyth. She makes food presentation and table-top sets for high end hotels.

You can get either a 36-inch version for $330, a 25-inch version for $230 or a 20-inch version for $180. Save some dollars for the sushi eh?

Order Sushi-Ushi sushi tray on Vikki Smyth’s website

Via Gizmodo

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We posted a photo of some Hello Kitty nails back in June 07, and wow, that’s currently the more popular post with over 414,000 views! Here’s the photo again…

There’s also lots of comments asking for where you can get it done. Well, I’m not sure whether it will help since I think alot of the commenters are in North America, but you can get these Hello Kitty nails done in Hong Kong.

I saw them recently in a New Territories town Tai Po, in a small, local nail boutique. Which means they’re probably available all around Hong Kong, since beauty is pretty big there. Here’s a poster showing the nails - sorry for the fuzzy camera phone pic..

OneInchPunch is currently traveling around Hong Kong and East-Asia.

Follow our experiences in the blog MangoVine.net.

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These supercool model Chubu Mechatrobots by Kazushi Kobayashi are from an alternate reality 1950s where robots are the most popular transport system. I can imagine the tube crush would be a little more fun with these!

Via The Awesomer

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Chengdu/China born Jordy Fu hand makes these amazing, intricate cloud lamps. She explains that the idea for the lamps emerged from paper models which were created for her architectural projects at London’s Royal College of Art.

Read more on Yatzer and Dezeen

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The package design for Yaoki Japanese brand won two prestigious awards: LIA 2007 (Silver in “Alcoholic drinks”) and Red Dot Award 2007 (Communivation design/Packaging design).

“The name “Yaoki” is derived from a Japanese old proverb “Nana korobi yaoki“. It means “Stand up on the eighth attempt after falling seven times” and epitomises the spirit of “Never give up!” The special shape of the bottle reflects this concept.

Shaped like a roly-poly Daruma doll it will stand up again and again even if it almost falls over. The arita-yaki material is remarkable too: a porcelain made in one of the most famous potteries in the world.

More on Popsop

Via Golgo 73

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