When any designer goes that one extra step to make their product, building, or creation stand out, people will notice. It can be something so simple that will still surprise people who come across it or it can be something extravagant that is meant to stand out. Either way, we should give a round of an applause for all designers that go that extra step. Here are 50 design examples that demonstrate how creative designers can be to go that extra step.
1. Tulips within a Tulip
This landscaper made sure that these tulips were presented in the most beautiful and unique way possible. The landscaper created the flower tulips to be formed and gardened into one giant tulip formation. What a beautiful idea.
2. More Space Needed
Libraries have always been a quiet place for anyone to read, research, study, or make use of their computers. Today it is more common for students to have their own laptops that the bring to the library. To accommodate these students, this community college library created their computer space to let people put the computer screen into the table, so they could use their own laptop and have more space. The extra plugs do not hurt either.
3. Kid’s Choice
Chick-Fil-A has made it possible for kids to choose their own meals without having to crane their neck to the menu. How did they do this? They put the kid’s meal menu at their eye level. This will also help with children learning to read!
4. More Pressure
Holding a book open with just your own fingers can get frustrating, especially with big books. This invention might look simple, but avid readers know it is a lifesaver. To have an extra bit of pressure that can push on the center of the pages will keep both pages open to read. Thank you to Francisco Abarca for this design.
5. Coconut Tops
Coconut water is delicious, but it always has a drawback. Opening a coconut can be annoying and time consuming. This vendor made it easier for people to enjoy coconut water, they created a can opening pop top feature that will bring the coconut water to you in seconds.
6. Strolling Together
Most handicapped walkways are on the sides of the building people want to enter. It can be a pain to go an entirely different route to your destination when you should not have to. This building made sure that would not be a problem, they installed their handicapped walkway right into the stairs. Now everyone can come into the building together.
7. We Go Together
Kashi did not only design their packaging with the singular box in mind, they kept in their minds how their product is displayed in a store. So, their designer created their cereal to come together in the store. This will draw more customers attention compared to the other products, smart!
8. Here’s Your Mail
If you ever are a visitor at the U.S Postal Service Museum remember to look down at your feet too. The museum made sure not only to display their museum collections but to bring the entire museum together. To do this, they designed envelopes into their tile.
9. Find Your Spot
When a train and subway is headed your way, it can be difficult to find which compartment will be the least full. This designer took that problem away for this train. Every compartment is displayed to help guide citizens to where they should go, depending on preference, one you enter a compartment.
10. All in One
One simple product can make everyone’s life easier when it is designed right. This mustard/ketchup dispenser is one of those products. Instead of wasting plastic on two separate products, they have combined a half ketchup, half mustard package that is easily squeezed out together, no more messes!
11. Side View
The beauty of so many hotels are their black out curtains. You can close those curtains and sleep all day and night without realizing the time. Yet, when it is time to walk up, those black out curtains make you get up to find out the time, not in this hotel. This alarm clock was designed with a side view of the time, all you have to do is roll over or even just open your eyes.
12. How Much?
When putting oil on a skillet or pan it is always a guessing game for how much you are actually using. The design of this wok easily solves that problem. The center of the wok includes measurement, so you can pour oil straight onto the pan without needing another measurement tool.
13. Simple but Effective
Most plug sockets have two entries, but many times people cannot use both because one large plug will block the other entry. This designer must have been frustrated about this more than once, because she created a plug that wraps perfectly around another. Why is every plug not designed like this?
14. Microwave Time
Have you ever microwaved a bag of veggies from Steam Fresh? If you have, you might have missed an easier way to tell how long you need to microwave it. Instead of looking at the directions on the back, just look at the microwave time on the front. It gives you the exact time for every product.
15. Just Right
Measurement spoons and cups are easy to overload. You never can get it just right, but you can with this design. This designer put a rod that will go over the top of the measurement and get rid of all the extra ingredients that you do not need.
16. Lock it Up
While bike racks are still a necessity in public places, many individuals ride other forms of transportation too, such as skateboards. Cities should work with designers, such as this one, that create locking stations for all transportation items, genius.
17. No More Cutting
The tags on clothing items are scratchy and annoying. Many people will cut them off just to get comfortable, but then they lose their laundry instructions. One company came up with a simple design to let everyone keep the tag, just one piece of cloth that will separate your skin from the tag.
18. Open Sesame
A gate around a playground will not keep children in and out if the handle is within a child’s reach. One idea that parents can easily get behind is to move playground handles to the height of adults. That way only the adults have control of who is coming and going into the playground.
19. Hidden Image
One beer company wanted to design their coaster to have some pizzazz for their customers. They were able to do this by adding in one more design into the traditional coaster, a secret picture that only appears when it gets wet. So, enjoy the beer and wait to see what appears.
20. Music Note
Most people use their headphones to listen to music and, with this in mind, one company used that train of thought to design a more pleasing package for their product. They designed their packages of headphones to be formed into a music note. A simple way to draw a consumer’s eye over the other products surrounding it.
21. Light it Up
All readers want the perfect reading light to sit next to and snuggle up with a book. This design is perfect for all the readers out there. This book lamp lights up when you open it and will turn off when you shut it. When you do not need the light, it will be a cute home décor piece as a book.
22. Bottom Sink
This design can help the cleanliness of your bathroom and is super functional. Adding a second lower sink to a normal sink gives adults better access to clean their feet, shave their legs or paint your toes. It also gives children an easier sink to use for all their sink needs.
23. Double Paint, Less Time
Painting large items or structures can take up a lot of time, especially to make it perfect. Every painter needs to know about this paint roller design! This design includes a second roller that goes on the side, therefore you are able to paint two areas at the same time, amazing.
24. No Beep, No Problem
For anyone that has tried to eat late at night or early in the morning without waking up the other members of your house, this is the microwave for you! This microwave was designed with a feature that lets anyone turn the beeper volume off or extra loud. There is no reason to wake anyone else up with this microwave.
25. Where’s This Bench?
The designer of this bench must have been a genius because they knew the needs of the people. The bench is solar-powered and has access to Wi-Fi for anyone sitting on it. It also has plugs on the side so people can charge their electronics while they sit as well. These benches need to become the standard worldwide!
26. Show Me Light!
There is no need to search for your AUX plugs in this car because they have designed it with light up AUX plug-ins once it gets dark. This design will help people stay more focused on their driving and not plugging in their phone. This is one design that could save lives.
27. Upside Down
A shower caddy is helpful to keep your shower organized, but it is not helpful once your products are at the very end of the bottle. One designer must have felt that annoyance because this is one shower caddy that has the perfect solution. The shower caddy has two holes on the bottom that lets you easily keep the bottle upside down, to get all the product within.
28. Lost?
The design on the sewer holes in Seattle try their very best to help lost tourists or lost citizens. How, do you ask? They put a simplified map of Seattle on the Sewer hole, helpful design!
29. Desk or Shelf, Your Choice
The design for this home décor item is perfect for individuals in small spaces. This can be a two-level shelf, but when you need a desk, just pull the top shelf down. So many of us live in tight spaces and designs like this are so helpful and keeps your space cutely decorated at the same time.
30. Have you been drinking?
No one should ever drink and drive. Sometimes will have a drink or two and still believe they are okay to drive, but are they really? This bar is making sure that their customers can make sure of this and has put a machine that can test their blood alcohol level, smart bar and smart design.
31. Revive the Pizza
Leftover pizza is never the same as when it was hot and delicious. Many enjoy the taste of leftover pizza but if you want to revive your day-old pizza to its original glory, then follow the instructions that this pizza place designed to give to their customers.
32. Swings For All
Every child should enjoy the fun of a playground, but many with disabilities cannot. This swing set design was created for exactly that reason. This swing’s design is specifically for children in wheelchairs that have never been able to swing before. Every playground should include this swing design.
33. Wheels on the Bus
The wheels on this bus was designed to work with the ad. The design is super creative and a bit funny to watch the eyes roll as it drives. Designs do not need to be functional, sometimes they just have to be fun.
34. Donut Box
The design for this Krispy Kreme kiosk was genius. So many people see the white box with green dots and automatically know it is Krispy Kreme donuts without reading the print. So, to design a kiosk in the version of their box will automatically draw the attention of people that want to eat their yummy donuts.
35. Top and Bottom
The design of these beer cans are making sure to draw the eyes of all customers. They have created their cans to either be the top of their illustration and other cans are the bottoms images. Once those cans are stacked correctly people cannot help but look at them!
36. At Capacity?
Being in a full elevator can cause anxiety for many people. Is it too full? Is it going to break? Well, any riders in these elevators do not have to worry about any of those fears. They have designed a lighted guide in the elevator that shows how close or far away the elevator is in its capacity. Have a smooth ride down and up.
37. Parking Struggles
Everyone has parked their car, gotten out of the car and realized you are not within your own parking spot. One design to never have to get back into your car to readjust your car is super simple that I cannot believe it is not used more. The design just brings the parking spot lines up onto the rails, so people can park and keep checking they are within the lines.
38. Symmetry
Big cities always will have one or more areas on their freeways where all the roads come together. It can be such a mess trying to figure out which way you need to go when there are so many off-ramps, exits and roads. The designer for this cross section of freeways created a symmetrical design that simplifies the freeway madness. For perfectionists, you will really enjoy this design.
39. All in One
Public restrooms can be awkward. A bunch of strangers in one big or small room to use the restroom and wash your hands. It can be awkward to have to reach between people, in a busy restroom, to use a section in the sink area. One design that combats this is creating an all-in-one sink that has a faucet, the soap, and a hand dryer.
40. Slide on Down
Every kid sees the handrails on stairways and imagines sliding down it, but parents will never allow it. The designer for this stairway still had his childhood imagination alive because these stairs comes with two slides on the sides. Kids do not have to imagine the handrails anymore, they can just use the actual slides.
41. Charge Station
This helpful grocery store installed a design into their shopping carts that allows their customers to charge their phones. While this is super kind, it is also helpful for the customers that have their grocery list on their phone but realized their phone died.
42. Hiding Spot
Once a person in a relationship buys an engagement room it can be hard to find the perfect hiding spot until they are ready to propose. This sneaky design should be used by all people hiding their rings. It might look like a camera lens, but it is actually a ring box.
43. Personal Space
This tent design is meant to be used inside. This design is perfect for college dorm roommates who are not that friendly. They can create their own personal tent bubble on their bed and leave the rest of the world behind.
44. Gardening Utensils
One designer went the extra mile to create their own kitchen utensils into mini gardening tools. This design is perfect as gift to all the gardeners in your life. One simple design change creates an entirely different décor look.
45. No More Wet Floors
This shower design has the handle inside of the shower and a rack for your towel. This design will keep your bathroom floor entirely dry as you can stay in the shower until you are completely dry. It is such a simple design that is not used as often as it should.
46. Rent a Charger
Many airports, hotels, theme parks, and libraries are starting to use this great design. For a certain amount of money any person can rent a charger for their device for a period of time. This is super helpful for all and such an easy design to implement.
47. Save for Later
There have been many wasted limes and lemons that were only used once or twice for a drink and then thrown away. Well, you did not have to throw those lemon and limes away anymore with this great design. This design saves partial limes and lemons to be used for later.
48. Look Ma, No Hands
The design of these sinks lets people not have to use their hands to turn the sink on. There is no need to spread germs at this sink, which is awesome. The simplest of ideas can turn into the most useful designs.
49. Grab It
Wearing gloves can make it almost impossible to open door knobs because they are so smooth. All it took was one designer to add a line of grip into handles and, viola, gloved hands can now open those doors. Amazing.
50. Recreate History
Being able to see the historical ruins in countries is important to understand that country’s history. This amazing design is able to show viewers the original design without touching the current ruins. This is an amazing design.
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