- from blog.arcademi.com
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Social enterprise + renewable resources = Bambike
- from bambike.com
Bryan McClelland has created the BamBike, a bicycle made out of bamboo, made by local artisans in the Phillipines.
Rapidly-regenerating bamboo crops are one of the best renewable resources in the world. They’re getting ready to ship internationally this year, so start saving now, and get ready to see a new kind of fixie appearing on your block…
Dohyung Kim & Sewon Oh’s 1 Litre Faucet #design cuts #waste, increases awareness of #water use
- from design you trust
Now here’s a great idea: a design that limits the amount of water released in one blast, to make you more conscious of how much water you need, and how much you waste. Can you believe a tap dispenses 6 litres of water in 30 seconds? A classy design that will change the way you think about water use every day.
It’s so perfect for a drought-afflicted country like Australia that it should be standard in every new development.
Best of London #fashion week: Jenny Postle patching it together at Central St. Martins
- from style.com
Ezri Tarazi’s sandbag sofa reflects the conflict “kalab (close to home)” in Israel
- from designboom
Cute video from Osborn Handcrafted founder (who is just as wacky as his shoes)
Osborn Handcrafted – Aaron Jumps! from chris keener & goldenbear on Vimeo.
I’ve got a black and white pair of these shoes (in the crazy Guatemalan print towards the end) and I get tons of compliments every time I wear them… nice to see the founder is as nutty as his prints are!
Mike Daisey on Apple: “It is irresponsible not to consider the circumstances in which a beautiful thing is designed. That is part of the design itself.”
“There are no personal electronics that are made in a humane fashion, by any of the major manufacturers, or any of the minor ones. There’s nothing I could recommend people switch their buying decisions to today. Everything we need to do begins with changing the circumstances under which the things are made, so we can finally get to the point where the companies realise the public are awake enough to even care about something like a sweatshop-free label on electronics.”
- from Techcrunch
A colourful approach to Kafka
- from creativereview.co.uk
“I suppose what some find most relevant and compelling in Kafka,” writes Mendelsund on Jacket Mechanical, “is his ability to inspire in them that paradoxical feeling that great literature always aspires to arouse in readers – the feeling of the universality of their own alienation. Kafka is the ne plus ultra of alienation – alienation being arguably the defining emotional condition of the twentieth century.
"Recyclicity": Dutch House Built From Salvaged Billboards and Umbrellas
Unlike most projects that start with a design, Villa Welpeloo started with a heap of scrap materials sourced locally at factories and warehouses. The team also used Google Earth to find abandoned buildings and lots near the building plot in Enschede, The Netherlands that may contain useful materials. As a result, the home’s framing comes courtesy of steel taken from abandoned machinery in a textile mill. The exterior is clad with boards salvaged from 600 cable reels that were first heat-treated by a process called Plato to weatherize them. The cladding’s clean lines do not betray the humble origins of these materials.
Inside is a treasure trove of interesting reuse — advertising signs are transformed into cabinets that reveal their origin when a drawer is opened. The architects asked for people in the town to drop off their broken umbrellas, whose spokes were transformed into low-voltage lighting.
- from inhabitat.com
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