Örnsbergsauktionen – a platform for unique items and projects
In a time when large scale production no longer takes place within the borders the city and has decreased within the country, designers tend to form small but strong units based on specific knowledge within materials, traditions and areas of application. Örnsbergsauktionen wants to create a platform for the unique items and projects that form the...
Aesthetic sustainability
Aesthetic sustainability is about rethinking sustainability. About moving away from decomposition and recreation and towards recycling and minimal consumption. Away from viewing products as having a life cycle (birth and death) and towards anti-consumption (or at least minimal consumption) and products that last a lifetime. The ultimate sustainability must be buying a few, good things...
Cast away animals by Nina Tolstrup
A while ago designer Nina Tolstrup from Studiomama started a “pallet project” which was all about producing your own piece of furniture using discarded pallets. The essence was centered around sustanability and questioned our attitude concerning waste. As fun extention to the pallet project Nina started to make “off cut animals” from all these bits and...
The City 2.0 winner of TED prize 2012
The TED Prize is awarded annually to an exceptional individual which receive $100,000. However, for the first time the prize is being awarded to an idea – City 2.0 – the kind of important idea our planet’s future depends on. It’s a challenge for everyone in the TED Community to be part of radical collaboration on one...
EzyStove: Revolutionary wood-burning stove for developing countries
In many parts of Africa people are spending hours to find wood for the day. Trees are important providers of food, shelter, housing, medicine, and energy. 74% of the rural households and 40% of the urban households rely on wood as fuel for cooking. The cutting ofa trees has reached alarming situations of deforestation resulting...
ARIRANG
ARIRANG is continuously being reinterpreted with various world-class musicians; European Jazz Trio, Inger Marie Gundersen, The Real Group, Yuhki Kuramoto, Youn Sun Nah and many other artists. ARIRANG is arguably Korea’s most beloved and best-known folk song that beautifully expresses Korean sentiment. They have an ancient and honorable memory with ARIRANG. Regardless of their ideology, culture, and...
Street design by Jeremy Edwards
Street design which is as free as it is generous, free then like free software, as if the pieces of vernacular design rejected in the street were a huge domain of formal code to manipulate, break, reconfigure and from it generate new forms. The Meuble Libre exhibition at the Naço Galerie in Paris will present works...
Online vintage boutique with digital memories
The brand new online second hand & vintage boutique heritable moments lets the sellers hand down personal memories attached to their belongings through digital labels. As a classic local brand being born in one of the most trend-crazed cities in the world, heritable moments’ primary mission is to add special meaning to outdated industrial products and give them...
Promoting conscious consumerism with style
Pure Magazine is an illustrated album comming out twice a year. It is distributed among a closed circle of readers. The publication focuses on Finnish design, promotes conscious consumerism and living in harmony with the nature. The newest issue of Pure Magazine has a cover design by Yulia Brodskaya – an artist and illustrator known...
Enlightened Waste at London Design Festival
As part of the 2011 London Design festival, Marion Friedmann Gallery presents Enlightened Waste, the first UK exhibition to showcase the work of French-Mexican designer Thierry Jeannot and Austrian artist Gisela Stiegler. Both Thierry Jeannot and Gisela Stiegler use waste packaging material to create enchanting light sculptures. The exhibition will be conceived as a magnificent...
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