Mono-use disposable plate
UFO (Unidentified Feeding Object) is a mono-use disposable plate designed by Andrea Ruggiero for InDisposed – an exhibition which invited designers to address notions of disposability in everyday products. Lightweight and rigid, UFO is designed to to be used at picnics, garden parties, beach parties or barbeques and disposed of by launching it into the bushes...
Reusable bag by Claesson Koivisto Rune
Plastic bags are made from fossil-based petrochemicals. And then they’re thrown away. At best, in to the trash, but for some reason also in to the oceans. This leads to the death of tens of thousands of seabirds every year. But the obvious solution is not spelled Paper Bag, as one might believe. Just the...
RE/DO at Milan Design Week
RE/DO installation was born from the collaboration between Milan based architecture practice Piuarch and PSLAB Beirut which since 2004 explores new ideas pertaining to light designing and building site specific light solutions. The installation took place at Piuarch studio in Brera area during Milan Design Week in the context of Fuori Salone 2009 (21-27 April). The...
Design For A Living World
There is a nice group exhibition opening tonight at the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York. The show is called ‘Design For A Living World‘, a project of the Nature Conservancy, showcasing the work of 10 designers including Stephen Burks, Hella Jongerius, Yves Behar, Ted Muehling and Isaac Mizrahi that explores our connection to the...
Earth Hour tonight
Don’t forget to take part of the world wide Earth Hour campaign and turn off your light 8.30pm local time this evening. We need the world to take action on Global Warming. Earth Hour 2009 aims to reach more than one billion people in 1000 cities around the world; Sydney, Beijing, London, Los Angeles, Copenhagen and Malmö among others. You...
Post visual pollution
As you probably already know, the city of São Paulo, Brazil, has put an end to all outdoor billboards, neon signs and other means of outdoor advertising. This is old news, since the ban has been on since January 2007, now a little more than two years ago. Surely, you should be able to sell...
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