10 Unique Bookshelves

May 9, 2012 by  
Filed under all, furniture, Lead Story, new

From the Hidden Message Bookshelf to the Bookshelf-annotation. Check these creative and unique bookshelves

Bookwave Hanging Storage

Unique Bookshelves

Designed by Mehtap Obuz, the Bookwave Hanging Storage is a multifunctional bookshelf which can also be used as a curtain or a room divider in contemporary spaces. Made in felt fabric and stainless steel, the modular unit expands to any size to meet the growing needs of the users. link

Hidden Message Bookshelf

Unique Bookshelves

Designed by Arredamenti Saporiti: it can also contain a hidden message… or not. link

Hanging Bookself

Unique Bookshelves

Hanging Bookself is an innovative storage design for your books from unal&boler studio. This system can’t replace a whole bookcase, but two of three systems of storage like this could be fun to hang somewhere in your home. link

Second and a Half Dimension Shelves

Unique Bookshelves

This project goes by the name “Imeüble” and it’s a shelving system that accesses not just your eyeballs and book-storing hands, it works with your mind to help you store information the same way you learn to associate words to their meanings! The easiest comparison is one the designer uses: when you read the word “cornfield,” you imagine a field full of corn, not the word “cornfield.” In that the shelf appears to be 2D but is actually 3D, this whole system works in the same environment of learning. link

The Brace Case

Unique Bookshelves

Designed by Ward Huting the Brace Case is fully customizable according to individual room requirement and cable length. Visually interesting, yes — but practical? Not so much. Ward Huting’s Brace Case seems like more of an art installation than a practical shelving unit. link

Nurseryworks Tree Bookcase

Unique Bookshelves

The Nurseryworks Tree Bookcase is a unique bookshelf that will be sure to inspire reading in your child. Buy it here

Pin Press BookShelf

Unique Bookshelves

Pin Pres is a kid’s room shelf that makes the act of sorting up the room a playful experience where the shelf adopts its form to the toys, books and other things that are being stored. Its the only shelf that will make your kid actually want to clean up and declutter the room! Pin Pres has won Josep Ros
furniture design competition.link

The Book Tunnel In Prague’s Library

Unique Bookshelves

Not a bookshelf but pretty interesting. This is the famous project Book Tunnel created by Slovak artist, Matej Krén in the Prague Municipal Library. Yes, mirrors are used to create this effect.link

Read The Bookshelf

Unique Bookshelves

This bookshelf is located in an upscale department store NK (Nordiska Kompaniet) in Stockholm Sweden. link

Bookshelf-annotation

Unique Bookshelves

Bookshelf-annotation by Lau Design.link

10 Most Awful Book Titles Ever

April 13, 2012 by  
Filed under all, Lead Story, new, Uncategorized, weird gifts

Meet the 10 Most Awful Book Titles Ever! They will make you go: WTF? But seriously, how on earth could anybody come up with these names, weren’t there better ones to choose from? See for yourself and draw your own opinions.

Kama Pootra

Awful Book Titles

Nope…It’s not the kind of book you are familiar with, these are the different ways in which you can…poop!. Link

DIY Coffins

Awful Book Titles

It isn’t creepy at all to make your own coffin, or to make one for your loved ones long before they die. It is actually very thoughful…in a creepy way, of course. Link

What’s Your Poo Telling You?


Awful Book Titles

Buy this book and read the “hidden message” that lies inside your poo!. Link

Is Not Going To Get Any Better When You Grow Up

Awful Book Titles

The title kinda suggests the following: “Don’t get your hopes up in life, things won’t improve in time “.

Are Women Human?

Awful Book Titles

Many women would feel offended just by reading the title alone!. Link

Ways You Can Play With Your Pussy

Awful Book Titles

Pussy equals a Cat in this context… Still, pretty weird to read about how to play with your own pet cat!. Link

How to Poo At Work

Awful Book Titles

If having a manual of instructions for everything in our lives wasn’t enough, here you also have a manual on how to poop at work! Link

The Missionary Position

Awful Book Titles

Your first reaction when you read this title, I bet it was: “Yep, the position most frequently used”… or something like that! Â link

How To Shit In The Woods

Awful Book Titles

For those people who are on a road trip, and don’t know how to do it, here you have a manual! Link

Who Cares About Elderly People

Awful Book Titles

Talking about being considerate and thoughtful…here’s a title that sends the wrong message! (If you don’t get to read the book that is). Link

11 Creative Bookmarks Designs

September 20, 2010 by  
Filed under all, designs, Lead Story, new, Uncategorized

Even though many people has read books with ebook reader, traditional book still popular, because people love the feeling of touching books and those creative bookmarks.

Help! bookmarks are paperclips with arms used as bookmarks.They appear to look like people that have been stuck between your pages link

Pointing Finger. “It’s just like a highlighter, whether the book is written from left to right or top to bottom, as long as you “point” the finger symbol where you finish, next time you want to read, you can find where you read to right away.link

Green Leafs Bookmark. This bookmarks bring your bookshelf to life while keeping tabs on your favorite passages.link

The Mark bookmark just won the Red Dot Award for best design concept in 2007 so it may be available soon. It’s a bookmark embedded with FOLEDs (flexible organic light emitting diodes) so that you can read in the dark by setting it on your book. The brightness level can be controlled, and the units use very little energy. link | via

Liquid Bookmark. link

Bug Bookmark. link

Night Light Bookmark. link

Dead Mark Squashed Flat Book Mark. The creative bookmark is made like a person throwing down the ground by accident, so it has a terrible name, Dead Mark. Poor guy, he has been squashed flat by your thick book.

Abracadabra Puffy Bookmark. The Abracadabra bookmark aims to make finding where you left off and opening to that page easier. It contains an air filled chamber, half of which is flattened by the weight of the book. Squeezing the exposed side inflates the concealed side and lifts the page just enough for your finger to slip in.link

Jacket + Bookmark. link

DIY: Corner Bookmark.link