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Parfois Chair
2009-01-25 12:15:00 The Parfois Chair is a multifunctional, modular peace of furniture. It can be used as a chair, desk, closet and can be put together to create environments. The concept was developed by Parfois, a collective of young designers. » <a href='http://www.parfois.be'>original news</a>
X-Ray Lamp
2009-01-25 12:15:00 In a World* where nothing seems to go unnoticed, where everything has to be controlled, taped, clarified, formalized, and than even more depersonalized, there are still possibilities to show where you are really made from. (meaning full pause) Swedish Company Sture Pallarp can turn your X-ray photo's into a lamp! In this way people can see your true self! Sture Pallarp X-Ray lamp (2009) Superused: X-rays photo's http://sturepallarp.se/ *) 'In a world' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_LaFontai ne + http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=7QPMvj_xejg » <a href='1'>original news</a> More About: Lamp
restructured again
2009-01-25 06:23:00 For the foundation bkvb 2012 architects redesigned an object that was made from window frames for the restructure exposition for the fourth time. The frames were now used to create a sound insulated meeting room. In this room the special committee judges requests for subsidies within 20 minutes. The proposed art, architecture and design projects can be presented on an integrated plasma screen or exposed on the 4 m2 turning Wall that functions as the entrance. The two windows to the Amsterdam canal were closed by piling up 20 years of catalogues and dead stock publications. This not only symbolizes the 20 year anniversary of the foundation but also improves the acoustics off the room. Graphic design studio thonik added the colored surfaces, flooring and monitors with registrations off talking heads presenting their plans... The restructure installation will be taken apart in spring 2009 and is for rent at 2012 architects. see former restructure expo : http://www.flickr.com/photos/...
miette design
2009-01-23 20:55:00 Spirograph beauty invasion and other diverse jewelry designs. » <a href='http://www.miette.fr'>original news</a> More About: Design
45 iPod Cases
2009-01-23 00:57:00 "Digital meets analog" is the tag-line for 45 iPod Cases . The number 45, comes from the 45rpm of records and it carries through to their posters, URL, available quantity and prices. The makers have developed two cases either for the iPod Classic or the 4th generation iPod Nano. For the first a 7 inch record was used, because the gap matches the click wheel of the iPod classic. The latter is made from a cassette tape. The cases are launched in 2007 but there are still some cassette cases available. One could even make it oneself. Be sure to digitize the music, to be played upon the Apple MP3 player, before remolding it into a slip case. Contexture Design: Trevor Coghill, Nathan Lee 45 iPod Cases (2007) Superused: Cassette and 7" Vinyl record (45 rpm) Vancouver, BC, Canada http://www.45ipodcases.com » <a href='1'>original news</a> More About: Ipod
MP3 Grenade
2009-01-23 00:56:00 Obama Orders Secret Prisons and Detention Camps Closed.* Yes he Can. A good step, but the 44th President will not dismantle his army. If he did, he could turn the weaponry into gadgets! That would than be a slight deviation of turning weapons into ploughs. A certain Matt of NYC Resistor figured it out. To much Shock and Awe of his colleagues he ordered 4 decommissioned training grenades and turned 1 into a MP3 player. When the explosives are removed, the hand grenade is nothing more than a small container, but with an appearance that makes 'great conversations on airports'. For Matt it was a childhood dream project. But the grenade turned out to be lethal, the first MP3 player died because of solder-work. The second one stayed alive. The final result was functional mp3 player embedded in an old hand grenade, with an interface that works. The grenade is now loaded with fine mp3 tunes. Matt MP3 Grenade player (2009) Superused: Decommissioned training grenade and a new Sansa ...
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2009-01-22 12:43:00 Recycling wasted steam and heat goes possible with Osmos By Rajni While cooking, usually all the steam and heat is wasted, right? Ever thought this could be recycled? Well, Osmos by jonathan banton does it and that too without asking for any compromise with style!What's different? Osmos absorbs and retains all wasted steam and heat thereby recycling it into greenery like herbs, garnish, cress, grass or anything of your choice. After the food is cooked you can place it on a dining table as a thought provoking tableware piece, whilst providing fresh healthy nibbles. We all are heading towards a time when saving energy and water, educating our children on natural products will be key worldwide cultural themes and Osmos is definitely an effective supporter name of design : osmos design by : jonathan banton from uk » <a href='http://www.instablogs.com/outer_per malink.php?p=recycling-wasted-steam-and-h eat-goes-possible-with-osmos'>original news</a>
Waste Paper Furniture
2009-01-21 23:31:00 Designer Jens Praet makes furniture from shredded paper. He compressed it with resin into a mold, and out comes a new piece of furniture. I'm not sure how eco-friendly that resin is, or how much paper it uses (I'm guessing a lot, which keeps it out of a landfill), but the material technique sure is neat, and strong! Via Core77. » <a href='http://blog.makezine.com/archive/20 08/05/waste_paper_furniture.html'>orig inal news</a> More About: Furniture , Paper , Waste
Gumnetic Bin
2009-01-19 10:48:00 This bin is actually made from recycled chewing gum! Anna Bullus first gathered used chewing gum to develop a new material with bio resin. With the new plastic, gained from the chewing gum she made this special Gumnetic Bin. The Bubble Gum Bin Collects raw material, which is used to make more bins. People throw their used chewing gum in these bins collecting more and more raw material. With all the gathered new material Anna Bullus is now developing this new material for commercial production. » <a href='http://www.annabullusdesign.com/'&g t;original news</a>
BAR / BORDER
2009-01-19 00:58:00 For this installation, the old canteen at the Deliplein in Rotterdam was re-commissioned as part-restaurant/part-social experiment. Recycled kitchen counter tops placed over cleverly hidden beer crates divided a large space in two: one side for food, the other for drinks. Partygoers collaborated, trading food, drink and conversation over this divider... that then became a uniter. Grens als bindmiddel (border as connector) Client: GP04 / Fonds BKVB en Stimuleringsfonds voor Architectuur Program: Temporary Restaurant - 250 m2 BVO Location: Deliplein Katendrecht, Rotterdam Ready: 11 December 2004 Project Team: Hans Vermeulen, Martine de Wit, Hedwig Heinsman, Arja Boon, Diana Kuip, Roel Spits » <a href='http://www.dusdus.nl/projecten.php? taal=&categorieid=interieur&proje ctid=bar&beeldid=1'>original news</a>
Prora-Cookie
2009-01-19 00:57:00 Can buildings with a dark past be re-envisioned through something as harmless as a cookie? Three architects thought so, creating a temporary bakery within the 4 kilometer-long walls of the former-Nazi Hotel Prora in Rugen, Germany. The austere, geometric pattern of this building's façade was transcribed onto the sides of shortbread. A once domineering edifice, laden with past sins, became the subject of a sinful snack. All the elements of a working bakery were created using materials already on-site. Broken bricks formed the walls of a new baking oven... massive pot lids transformed into oven doors... wrought iron gates became oven grills. In the process, new purpose breathed life (and the mouth-watering aroma of cookies) into a forgotten relic. After completing their project the architects gave their design to a local bakery. The Prora-cookie was born. KOEKJES1 Project: Prora All Inclusive Location: KDF-Bad Prora, Rugen, Germany Ready: Augustus 2003 Project team: Hans V... More About: Cookie
Take-Out Design
2009-01-18 01:34:00 After living in China for several years and witnessing, on a large scale, the wasteful habit of disposable chopsticks, artist Bryan Parks decided he had to do something about it. So, he set to work designing functional, sculptural folding pieces handmade from recycled, sanitized bamboo chopsticks. Symmetrical and simple, this large folding basket holds everything from fruits to bread to decorative items, and then can be folded up to the size of a fan for easy storage and transportation. Before becoming baskets, the chopsticks are boiled in black tea to give them a medium brown color. Handmade in the Yunnan Province of southwest China. $28.00 ITEM NUMBER: 17577 MATERIALS: bamboo NOTE: Hand wash recommended. Fine to use soap and water. SIZE: Opened: 14" L x 12" W x 4" Hba » <a href='http://www.uncommongoods.com/item/i tem.jsp?source=featured&itemId=17577' >original news</a> More About: Design
Re/Lightwater
2009-01-12 00:46:00 Lamp with recycled plastic bottles, from an old lamp Ikea http://romantorre.wordpress.com/2008/12/1 3/011relightwater/ » <a href='1'>original news</a>
Catch Of The Day
2009-01-09 12:26:00 Surf's Up! But with less fun, fun, fun in the dirty oceans and on the beaches of today. To bring some attention to this ocean pollution, and to show how very disgusting this stuff really is, the Surfrider Foundation teamed up with advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi LA and created 'Catch of the Day'. Trash was collected from the beaches around the U.S. and than packaged like sea food and left on display at various farmer's markets, complete with tag stickers. The campaign is site-specific and gives consumers an actual insight on consumption behaviour. Hopefully, creating awareness, to realise that trash isn't someone else's problem. Click here to see all Catches Of The Day: http://shapeandcolour.wordpress.com/2009/ 01/07/surfrider-foundation-catch-of-the-d ay/ Saatchi & Saatchi LA and Surfrider Foundation(2008) Catch Of The Day Superused: Beachtrash Los Angeles, USA http://www.surfrider.org » <a href='1'>original news</a>
oliebollen biodiesel
2009-01-06 12:18:00 The dutch traditional oliebol that everyone eats at new years eve is generally fried in liters of organic oil. A reuse company in holland collects the oil afterwards and transforms it into biodiesel. (sorry, all info in dutch) http://www.hetgoed.nl/Portals/0/rightpane Images/VetGOED%20poster.pdf » <a href='http://zoomin.tv/videoplayer/index. cfm?id=305243&mode=normal&quality =3&pid=agn'>original news</a> More About: Biodiesel
Helmet Lamp
2009-01-05 13:32:00 Unfortunately I destroyed my Smila Blomma from IKEA, due to mistreatment: I let the bulb come to close to the plastic. After removing the Blomma the construction of the lamp is as such suitable that I could turn it easily into a (echo machine on) Construction Helmet Lamp (echo machine off). It needed just 1 screw, and I can still use the helmet as an helmet. One can even go really nerdish and turn it into an autarkic lamp by adding a solar panel or a small windmill onto the helmet. During working day at the construction site the solar panel or windmill will charge a battery, at night the helmet can be put on the Smila Blomma construction next to for instance the wardrobe section of your house. Here it than functions as a 'Honey, I'm home' lamp. John Bosma Construction Helmet Lamp (2009) Superused: 1 (broken) Smila Blomma, 1 screw and 1 construction helmet. Rotterdam, The Netherlands http://www.flickr.com/photos/15262666@N05 /3159405673/ Smila Blomma: http://www.ikea.com/nl/nl/...
Coffee Diesel
2009-01-05 13:32:00 'America is addicted to oil', said George Bush*. Whilst he said America, it could very well be said for almost the whole world. Large part of the people on this planet are also addicted to coffee. Now the latter addiction can help the first one. Researchers from the University of Nevada, USA, have discovered that diesel can be made from coffee grounds (koffiedik). The discovery was done by accident. Mano Misra, a professor of engineering who conducted the research with Narasimharao Kondamudi and Susanta K. Mohapatra, said that he realized coffee beans contained a significant amount of oil. "I made a coffee one night but forgot to drink it," he said. "The next morning I saw a layer of oil floating on it." The team went to Starbucks and collected 50 pounds of the black stuff. Analysis showed that even the grounds contained about 10 to 15 percent oil by weight. The researchers then used standard chemistry techniques to extract the oil and conve... More About: Coffee , Diesel
old fridge as furniture
2008-12-26 20:25:00 The Shanghai-based design team Y-TOWN is surprising. Their recent Recycled Project includes lots of reuse of e-waste, clothing, poster and even old refrigerators. The refrigerator makeover project is a nation-wide search and effort supported by renowned manufacturer Bosch. Final products (a radio, a cloths rack, a dressing table, a bookshelf an organizer & various handbags!)are not for sale, but exhibited or auctioned. This project is currently in their website (in english & chinese): www.y-town.cn » <a href='1'>original news</a> More About: Furniture , Fridge
everybody need one pad
2008-12-23 19:15:00 "....I retrieved some paper from the printing company's container... I found sheets in the drawers whose colours and lines the machine deformed... the unrecognizable motifs and the useless motifs seemed to me like prints ...." !!! At the waste take a good look to find new opportunities for new products, recognize something new » <a href='1'>original news</a>
doublewood shelf
2008-12-23 19:14:00 "Our doublewood shelf product endeavors to find the odd-shaped left-over pieces that normally get thrown out, and turn them into beautiful, practical products, reducing the impact on US landfills, reusing hard wood product and recycling sheet steel. We chose not to send the shelf to the exhibition because we wanted to stress the importance of using local materials and avoid unnecessary ecological footprint of the transport." !!! Jobsite waste from construction is a real problem in the US. More than 130 million tons of debris from construction sites is dumped in U.S. landfills each year. designer : M:OME , www.mome.org project : Redesign your mind , www.redesignyourmind.org concept : od-do architects, www.od-do.com » <a href='1'>original news</a> More About: Shelf
"s etno" gillet
2008-12-23 19:12:00 By redesigning a traditional item of clothing and making it closer to modern esthetics, not wanting to strictly define it's present use, we now have a contemporary piece that stemmed from the pattern of "jelek" (gillet). designer : SESTRES project : Redesign your mind , www.redesignyourmind.org concept : od-do architects, www.od-do.com » <a href='1'>original news</a>
totem book shelf
2008-12-23 15:45:00 "Totem is a bookshelf made out of packaging Styrofoam. Packaging material for single use, such as form-pressed packaging Styrofoam for packaging technical equipment possesses a fascinating aesthetic value, and only a new function is needed to emphasize it. " !!! Styrofoam is widely used as a material for thermal isolation and for packaging, particularly in transport. In nature it degrades only after several hundred years, and is virtually not recycled because the recycling is not profitable. The use of Styrofoam for single use packaging of food and drinks is forbidden in many countries. designer : KAKO.KO , www.kako-ko.com project : Redesign your mind , www.redesignyourmind.org concept : od-do architects, www.od-do.com » <a href='1'>original news</a> More About: Book , Shelf
vest from old gobelins
2008-12-23 15:45:00 "I've made this vest from Gobelins. My mother and I have bought them, mostly in the Zemun flea market. Gobelins usually hang on walls, in a frame, and when we get bored by them, they end in a basement, shed, in the garbage, and, in the best event, on markets for second hand goods. For me it is a good opportunity to acquire a new practical object. Merging them in a new picture I have sawn a comfortable vest. / The cross stitch of a boy was found at the Zemun flea market 5 months ago, and the same style cross stitch representing a girl 2 weeks ago at the Novi Beograd flea market. / " designer : SENJA project : Redesign your mind , www.redesignyourmind.org concept : od-do architects, www.od-do.com » <a href='1'>original news</a> More About: Vest
stainless steel jewelery
2008-12-23 15:45:00 "I find material for this type of jewellery at the wastes which collect stainless steel deriving from the old industrial machines which were made out of that material. I use pipes, shims and prochrom flah. Other material is the manure which I derive from the old damaged figurines that I buy at the flee markets.." designer : MIHO project : Redesign your mind , www.redesignyourmind.org concept : od-do architects, www.od-do.com » <a href='http://www.redesignyourmind.org'> ;original news</a> More About: Steel , Jewelery , Stainless Steel
Hanger T(H)REE
2008-12-23 15:45:00 The main goal is to simplify concept of product in all its segments, but in the same time to reach the quality of the global result. The used material is waste of production. The stable construction is reached by standard technology and with few operations. The function of this independent hanger is promoted with the solution of its good sculptural hanging on the wall during time when it is out of use. designer : JELENA MATIC project : Redesign your mind , www.redesignyourmind.org concept : od-do architects, www.od-do.com » <a href='1'>original news</a>
75% - 25% chair
2008-12-23 15:44:00 "We made a chair that should function as a small stool with low and twisted back. The chair is supposed to be used as for casual sitting at coffee shops. It is a blend of wood / most represented natural material in production, which is decreasing / and recycled plastic / the most represented artificial material with increasing waste /" !!! "On one hand we have the ecological demand not to use plastic in the production, but to use wood, and on the other, we have to make sure that the wood consumption makes as little damage as possible to the forest. The two demands are in conflict... Both are justifiable, but there must be some balance ..." - Woods management. Projected wood terrain of Serbia is 42 percent, while today it is less than 30 percent. designer : od-do architects, www.od-do.com project : Redesign your mind , www.redesignyourmind.org concept : od-do architects, www.od-do.com » <a href='1'>original news</... More About: Chair
wallpaper unlimited
2008-12-23 15:34:00 Bags are made of wallpapers and cables collected from building warehouse. They present an attempt to make a new object from materials that have ended the conventional life-cycle in a way that it has a new form while still keeping remembrance of the previous identity. Save nature and memories. designer : TANJA TODOROVIC project : Redesign your mind , www.redesignyourmind.org concept : od-do architects, www.od-do.com » <a href='1'>original news</a> More About: Wallpaper , Unlimited
Dog house for small dogs
2008-12-23 15:34:00 TASA can be easily constructed, mounting and dismounting again. It consists of 6 elements - 6 OBS boards / boards made of wooden rest /. It is designed in way that it can be easily assembled by fitting the parts. The board elements are interlocked and therefore it is impossible for TASA to disassemble during use. When dismantled, the boards are easily stored and are suitable for transport. designer : JOVANA BOGDANOVIC project : Redesign your mind , www.redesignyourmind.org concept : od-do architects, www.od-do.com » <a href='1'>original news</a> More About: House , Dogs , Small
wunder baum
2008-12-23 15:34:00 These Christmas tree decorations are made of veneer waste from a furniture factory. The dimensions of the decorations are approximately 70x70 mm and 110x110 mm. Different types of veneer are made of different kinds of wood: oak, beech, fir, cashew, venge.... !!! The total value of a forest, including the ecological and protective function of the forest, is up to ten times higher then the market value of wood. designer : POLIGON & JELENA PREKAJSKI, www.poligon. project : Redesign your mind , www.redesignyourmind.org concept : od-do architects, www.od-do.com » <a href='1'>original news</a>
dutch waste adresses!
More articles from this author:2008-12-19 21:13:00 a database of waste collectors, producers, recycling plants in the netherlands! » <a href='http://www.afvalonline.nl/adresseng ids/'>original news</a> More About: Dutch , Waste 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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