Hi guys! Here are some bottle design collections for your inspirations. Water bottle or any drink bottle should not be boring even for tap water in my ideal world! Lol… Anyway, wish you guys a great weekend and Happy Chinese New Year. Enjoy looking at these bottles for now… Cheers!

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Original photo : Shot using iPhone 3G (lupa nak bawak my DSLR)
Location : BB Park, Bukit Bintang, Kuala Lumpur.
Date : 13 Februaty 2010.

You may learn more about this hybrid city car designed by Italian Design House, Italdesign-Giugiaro for Proton at Paultan.org.

And by the way, you may cast your vote if you like this design to be the future of Proton Design Direction here. Enjoy!

Note : This post will be updated on daily basis (with teaser photos) until Italdesign Giugiaro finally fully reveal this car.

More updates from Paultan:

• The car is a creative collaboration with Italdesign Giugiaro.
• The concept car will have 5 doors and will seat 4.
• It is 3,550 mm in length, which is approximately a good half a meter longer than the Toyota iQ but shorter than the Proton Savvy.
• The four seats will be independently adjustable and slideable.
• Seat hip-points will be the same height as that typical of an SUV, allowing easier entry and exit. This will probably also mean a high-ish seating position.
• The car will use a series hybrid drive. A combustion engine will be mounted at the front and will be used only to recharge lithium ion batteries.
• The lithium ion batteries will drive the motor that moves the car.
• It uses a special chassis with a raise floor that allows installation of the regular combustion engine at the front and batteries in the rear.

Hope to get more news in few weeks time as March is getting closer each day (4th-14th of March). Darn, I’m pretty excited to see how significant changes in Proton’s design language and hope it comes with new technology too! All the best to you Proton!

Well, what a surprise! I was there myself today at the Mobile Fair at The Sphere, Bangsar South just because a friend of mine have called me earlier whether to buy or not the 3Gs iPhone which only cost like RM1k! Luckily, he was smart enough to hold his purchase until I got there myself and check.

To my surprise, they have many version of iPhones like Mini iPhone(?), Red Color iPhone, cheap fake looking 3G iPhone and the 3Gs iPhone itself! And all these products were promoted like brand new Apple’s products! And it is so sad to witness many buyers bought these phones as they have no clue they just bought fake products!

The funny part is, the sales person tried to convince me that he is selling original iPhone 3Gs with good price (after 70% off ). So he showed me the differences between 3G iPhone model from China that he called ‘the fake one’  (selling at just RM299) and iPhone 3Gs ‘Original’ from S’pore (selling at RM1k). Please take note that, the 3Gs iPhone was priced at RM1.5k before discount!

At a glance, you can’t really tell the differences. But if you look at it carefully, you will find that there are many flaws to the product such as:

1. Screen resolutions is not as good and as sharp as the original iPhones even though not that noticeable as the cheaper one.
2. Touch screen is slow and not responsive and sensitive unlike original. But not too bad.
3. The behavior of short cut ’silent button’ at side of iPhone is different from Original. To change to silent mode/normal mode : the button slides up/down vertically unlike the original is horizontally.
4. The packaging is good, almost like original, even comes with believable manual book!
5. User interface (U.I) – 80% almost like as the original iPhone. But, the font is thinner and the design is not as detailed and as nice as iPhone has.

And the list goes on and on. Off course, having an iPhone 3G myself, gives me advantages to know all these things. But let me tell you how to know whether it is fake or not in merely just in 10 seconds.

Just do this following as shown below before you decide to buy;

1. At home screen; Choose ‘Settings‘
2. Then choose ‘General‘
3. After that choose ‘About‘
4. Finally look for ‘Version‘ (The iPhone Operating System no.)
5. The OS version should reads; 3.xx (latest is 3.13) NOT like random alphabets and numbers such as XXYAZ-ZN1773-HYWGG!!! Lol…

I immediately walk out from the counter and gave this funny look at the sales person as he realized I got him cheating and trying to sell fake iPhone 3Gs to me!

The best part is, before I busted his ass, he even dare asking me to trade my 3G iPhone for his fake 3Gs iPhone! And yet, still need to top up few hundreds! WTF! My 3G iPhone obviously has 10 times more value than his stupid fake 3Gs iPhone!

So guys, be careful whenever you go to this kind of fair. Make sure you don’t end up buying fake product unless you want a cheap alternative to original iPhone.

Watch this video from MacMedics about fake 3Gs iPhone! Educate yourself to be a responsible buyer… Cheers!

Merry X-Mas! Ho..ho..ho… I just did another 12 more badges this time. Go and grab them now. To download, please click here or here. Enjoy!

Note :You may find more badges from my two previous postings here and here.

Extraverage™ is the portfolio of Karoly Kiralyfalvi also known as Drez, a creative dude from Budapest, Hungary. He is only 26 years but he is amazingly talented. Mad skills in vector drawing and typography. Anyway, for iPhone lovers out there, Drez has created some great iPhone Wallpapers available for download from his site, and you may download them here.

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful…

Merry Christmas to all my Christians frens and wish you all a festive and joyful celebrations with your loved ones! Merry X-Mas! Ho..Ho.. Ho!

So finally yesterday, I reached at Sony Style (The Curves, Mutiara Damansara) just right 15 minutes before their closing time and quickly pursued a sales person to get me a bronze colour of A330; a limited edition which the body and the lens are all in bronze colour! Interesting eh for DSLR which always comes in black?

The most exciting part is, due to Christmas is just over the corner; Sony is having blast promotions/sales for all ranges of their product, Alpha included. With only RM2899.00, the A330 comes with plenty of accessories which easily cost you another thousand ringgit! The only drawbacks was, I had to buy my own memory card and I bought the 8GB Memory Stick PRO-HG Duo for RM219.00 only. This PRO-HG Duo memory card has 20 times faster transfer rate over the normal memory card. Which I think will give you extra advantage if you like to transfer big sizes photo files to your pc.

Anyway, I walked out from the store with one big smile and one big hole in my wallet and carried not one but two paper bags that has A330 DSLR camera, 1 Alpha camera bag, 1 Alpha accessories bag, 1 Portrait Lens, 1 Standard Lens, 1 external flash, 1 Alpha Flusk, 1 Alpha Pen, 1 Alpha wrist band and some other cool stuff.

I think, this coming few days, I will sleep on the manuals for sure and start browsing to refresh my knowledge about shutter speed, aperture and all that jazz…

You may view more photos of A330 after the jump. Enjoy!

Fipper was the first logo ever I’ve designed based on animal shape. Fipper actually is a footwear product; like a flip flop and their target buyers are like teenagers and young adults. Hence, the logo must have some fun, playful and cute design elements to it so will look more appealing to them.

I will do a special posting about this fipper logo including the design process, behind the concept and few samples of logo design implementation. For now, please enjoy these animal logo design that I’ve compiled from logo pond – a super great website for logo inspirations.

More animal logo after the jump. Tell me which one is your favourite!

Enjoy!

This HealthDrive contains a software that can be used to assess and track wellness for individuals and their family members. It also serves as a convenient way to store and organise medical records. In an emergency situation, the holder’s critical medical information such as medication, allergies and next of kin are available.

To read more about this company and their amazing product, please visit HealthierCompany website that was designed by creative and very very talented friend of mine, Yunus Ismail. I must say, the website looks really great and neat. Good job Yunus!

By the way, kudos to Genseq’s team for winning the Best of e-Health of 2009 award recently. Keep up the good work guys…

Personally, I think HealthierCompany has the best Health Risk Assessment service on the net! Do check them out y’all! More artworks after the jump. Enjoy!

Above pic : Packaging Design was aspired by Apple’s Ipod Shuffle box design*

Items that comes together with the box; a reference manual and a measuring tape*

*Please take note that, all artworks shown in this post was a design exercise. To view the final product, please do visit their website.