Sfumato Candle designed with architectural and painting inspiration from Da Vinci

Sfumato Candle Details

Burning scented candles don’t just light up the surroundings. It offers several benefits, whether for ceremonial or decorative purposes. No doubt candles deliver aesthetic value and scent to set a nice ambiance to an otherwise dull surrounding.

Candles are famous for their soothing effect on the body and soul. They help create a peaceful surrounding, making them suitable for one’s health and sanity. The Sfumato Candle is a product design that makes the candle, a simple object, more beautiful than ever while it helps you destress and relax.

Designer: Kegan McDaniel

Concept Sfumato Candle Design

The Sfumato Candle throws some architectural inspiration into the design. The results are interesting visual elements, as shown by this unique vessel for scents. The Sfumato Candle is made of cast concrete, so this can be one sturdy home decor. The concrete finish reflects the stone, which is often used in architecture.

Sfumato Candle Design Concept

The word “Sfumato” means “to evaporate like smoke.” The designer learned the term from a book about Leonardo Da Vinci. Sfumato was a special technique used by Da Vinci in painting. The artist used it to blur the edges of objects to soften focus. This then gave the illusion of aerial perspective and realism. The designer Kegan McDaniel loved the word and thought it would make a fantastic brand name.

Sfumato Candle Colors Fragrances

The designer worked on different scents for the concept candle. There are three fragrances available: Tuscan Fields, Amalfi Citrus, and Sicilian Sage. These candles also come in different colors depending on the scent: green, yellow, and red. Using the Italian regions for the name of scents is a reference to Leonardo Da Vinci’s home country.

Sfumato Candle

Kegan McDaniel isn’t new on our radar as we’ve seen and enjoyed his previous designs. The ARUS Drone, aka the Dronut, gave us giggles. The Aged & Ore Travel Decanter became an actual product, allowing you to enjoy your favorite cocktails or spirits wherever your travel takes you. His Nike X Crocs footwear concept design made us wish it would go into production even if the pair looked weird to many.

As for candles, there have been plenty of designs that we found interesting. The Spiral Light Candles could burn for 40 hours with its spiral-shaped wick. The Infinite Candle from more than a decade ago was designed to make another candle as it burns. You see, candles are centuries old, but they will never disappear. Candle innovations will be introduced as long as there are people exercising their creativity to make something new and beautiful.

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This Nike X Crocs collaborative concept doesn’t seem so absurd in 2020

One is literally the biggest sports apparel company in the world, and the other is a viral sensation turned into a fashion faux-pas. It’s unlikely that Nike and Crocs would ever collaborate just because it’s perhaps one of the unholiest of unions, but let’s take a second to appreciate this conceptual ‘what-if’ product from the mind of Kegan McDaniel.

Say hello to probably the most bizarre shoe collab in history. This pair of Nike Air-Jordans X Crocs collaborative clogs surely will make you feel a bunch of things, including, hopefully, a second reckoning. While the idea of footwear co-created by Nike, Jordan, and Crocs may sound absurd at first, these clogs honestly don’t look all that bad. I mean hey, I’d wear them… probably.

The shoes come in the distinctive single-piece design that’s archetypal with the Crocs brand, with a silhouette that seems familiar too. Its details, however, borrow influences directly from the Air Jordan 1, with a perforated toebox and that iconic swoosh that wraps around the back of your foot, becoming the heel-strap.

Honestly, the Nike X Crocs footwear are a bit of an acquired taste. They’ll almost definitely evoke a negative reaction at first sight (sort of like looking at the Yeezy flip flops for the first time), but after a while you’ll definitely warm up to the idea them. After all, it’s 2020. Weirder things have happened.

Designer: Kegan McDaniel

This design is purely a conceptual piece of work and isn’t affiliated with the Nike, Air Jordans, or the Crocs brand in any way.

Someone invented this travel-safe decanter to carry your spirits with you on holidays!

I’m assuming there’s a big enough niche for people who like carrying their preferred poison with them wherever they go. I won’t lie, I’ve tried carrying bottles around on flights and they’re an intensely stressful experience. Thankfully I’ve never been the recipient of shoddy cargo-handling and my bottles have always come out intact, but that luck doesn’t extend to everyone. If a bottle is breakable, chances are it will break, so it’s best you be prepared with a product like the Travel Decanter, a glass decanter housed in a secure, double-walled low-tolerance stainless steel casing, designed specifically to withstand the physical toll of traveling.

The Travel Decanter was built for two things. Travel, and taste-preservation. A specially-crafted hand-blown decanter holds 500ml of whatever you pour into it, be it a special spirit, or a cocktail of choice. Unlike metal or polymer-based containers, the glass decanter doesn’t alter the taste of the drink within. The result is a truly well-preserved libation that doesn’t have any plastic-y taste or metallic notes. A wide neck on the decanter allows you to easily pour drinks into it, and even add a few ice-cubes of your own, while a stainless steel stopper with a silicone seal ensures your liquids are preserved in a spill-proof, air-tight environment. The decanter then slides into a double-walled stainless steel outer casing that keeps your drink chilled as well as protected from accidental bumps and spills courtesy the butter-fingers that handle our luggage at the airport. The stainless-steel casing screws together to stay securely shut, and opens at the middle to transform into two tumblers to drink from. In fact, there’s even 2oz indicator inside the glass so you know how much to pour, and a subtle design at the base of each tumbler around the rim, for easy gripping. When assembled, the Travel Decanter measures a mere 8.5 inches in height and 3.5 inches in width, slipping easily into suitcases, or even in the bottle-pouch of backpacks.

Calling the Travel Decanter a thermos or a flask would be like calling an iPad a computer. You’d be right in a strictly literal sense, but you’d also lose a lot in translation, because in many ways, the Travel Decanter is a very new category. Its job is preservation no doubt, but for a specific liquid and a scenario that surely demands a product (I don’t have statistics on how many bottles of alcohol break inside suitcases but I imagine it’s enough to be a headache). Ultimately the Travel Decanter helps you carry your favorite spirits with you, especially on business trips where you’d much rather sip on your own alcohol than rely on those incredibly expensive hotel room minibars, or on road-trips and picnics outside the city.

Designer: Kegan McDaniel

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The Travel Decanter: Preserve Your Whiskey, Cocktails, and Wine

A 500 ml hand blown decanter, encased in 2 stainless steel double wall tumblers – designed to preserve your spirits during travel.

The Travel Decanter Drop Test

The double-wall stainless steel shell not only insulates remarkably, it provides impact and shock resistance. Above is a real-life video dropping the Travel Decanter directly onto concrete. It demonstrates the durability, and protection it provides to the borosilicate glass decanter.

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Introducing, the Dronut!

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This design gave me the giggles! Policemen love donuts, so it only makes sense that this police drone follow the same form. Designer Kegan McDaniel calls it the ARUS drone but I’m calling dibs on the term “dronut” right now!

But seriously, it’s designed for release during emergency situations as a first response unit that can provide immediate surveillance before ground units can get to the scene. This helps law enforcement and emergency crews properly staff scenarios that differ from one to the next. As an eye in the sky, it also helps deter crime and provides helpful valuable documentation and evidence.

Designer: Kegan McDaniel

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