German lighting maestro Ingo Maurer's poetic, gently humorous lighting designs are ideal for children's bedrooms because — as design classics — they will also furnish a teenager's and grown-up's room.
It is interesting to see something as serious as reckless driving under the influence of alcohol can be reduced to a humorous hashtag designed to drum up business, but those are the times in which we live.
Using a 2 (message sidedness: one-sided vs. two-sided) x 2 (humor: humorous vs. non-humorous message framing) between-subjects design (N=167), we tested the persuasiveness of the advertisement.
Gilad has set up an e-commerce site, designfenzider.com, which sells his humorous yet functional design pieces, such as the Box Lamp (a metal frame that resembles a cardboard box with an open top that emanates light), and Void stool (a T-shaped stool with a hollow center where one can store books, magazines, etc).
12) Meathead-designed humorous aprons, clothing, mugs Yours Truly hoisted a few brews one day and created a bevy of goofy apron, apparel, and gizmo designs for the barbecue (and wine) lovers.
Despite some inspired costume design, a humorous talking bird, a gaggle of cute puppies, and the formidable Ms. Close, this slapdash sequel hardly lives up to its predecessor of a few years ago, much less to the animated original.
While the shipping container design is humorous to look at, the rugged apparatus has natural functionality.
"As with my past work I've placed some humorous elements in the design basically to say, 'don't stress, we are all only human.' I'd like contemplation from the viewer on which of these addictions they may have, which I hope will lead to understanding".
Even the designs of Rei Kawakubo and Yohji Yamamoto, while not humorous, were intentionally absurd: Kawakubo's designed a "lace" sweater with a pattern of holes created by loosening screws in knitting machines.
