The Hip-to-be-Square Hair Dryer

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Inspired by the world renowned street style brand Off-White, the HIFIVE hair dryer is a fashion-forward take on a common appliance. Users will find the same signature Off-White diagonal line pattern and an overall shape that’s more squarish and technical than traditionally round units.

It’s something entirely new, however, it maintains a cylindrical handle and half-nozzle for familiarity and ergonomics. Unlike other entirely round units, its top section sports a completely flat surface on which it rests. It’s a simple stabilizing solution that should have been adopted by other designs a long time ago to keep dryers from wobbling around! With a folding handle and compact collapsed form, it’s also easy to store or carry in a suitcase.

Designers: Joongho Choi & Hyunmook Lim

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Provides better stability when it is put down or stored.

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The GoGo Gadget Smartwatch Strap!

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Love your smartwatch but hate that it needs juicing?! You need an innovative charging strap like this one designed for the Samsung Gear S3. The comfy strap not only secures it to your wrist, but it also doubles as a convenient charger for your device! You’ll never have to carry around an extra cable and you’ll never be without what you need to plug your device in and charge. In a variety of playful colors, they’re also interchangeable and customizable to your taste or outfit!

Designer: Hyunmook Lim, Garim Kim, Yuna Nam

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For Picture-Perfect Toast!

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If you look at a camera’s proportions, they’re really similar to the proportions of a toaster, sans the lens of course. Using that observation to their advantage, designers Hyunmook Lim and PDF Design decided to pull an old switcheroo on Leica’s product portfolio by introducing a Leica toaster. Even without the latge circular lens, the toaster looks strangely camera-ish, and definitely Leica-ish. The flat geometric surfaces along with the choice of color and finish make it fit well into the German camera-maker’s portfolio. The simple circular red logo on the side acts like a perfect punctuation to complete the design’s visual grammar.

Designers: Hyunmook Lim & PDF Design.

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What if a Coffee brand made Hairdryers?

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For men?? It seems to be hairdryer week here at Yanko, but I’m not complaining! Let’s focus on the title again. It seems absurd for Nescafe Dolce Gusto (a coffee machine series) to suddenly make hairdryers, and that too exclusively for men. This, however, is a clever exercise practiced by designers who try to channel a brand’s ‘visual semantics’ into their products (Visual semantics is all about those visual elements that make a product belong to a brand. You could instantly recognize a Nivea product even if Nivea weren’t written on it).

The Nescafe Dolce Gusto hairdryer does its job of channeling the brand’s design language into a product that seems unthinkable in relation to the brand. That’s the challenge. With its bold Black vs Metallic color palette (and a signature hint of red), the concept hairdryer captures the brand colors really well. Even the usage of spherical elements in the design seems to echo with Dolce Gusto’s style… and what better way to end it than with a few delicious looking color variants?!

Designers: Hyunmook Lim & PDF Haus.

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Effortless Camping Tent

The biggest killjoy of camping is the pitching of the tents. Making this experience more effortless and easy is the Camping Doughnut. It not only fosters community living whilst promoting individual space, it’s also easier to setup than most tents. The design offers you the flexibility of configuring it according to your needs. Happy camping people!

Designers: Sungha Lim, Hyunmook Lim & Han Kim

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