Environ-Mentally
Roots
Mut design “emotional design studio” presented its new work during the design week in Milan. Between their projects, I’d like to mention Roots, a modular structure, produced in wood and porcelain, that allows the composition of a biombo like screen or just a mini vertical garden.
Satura
Within the ”Plus Edition 2011″ of the swiss Ruckstuhl we wish to point out Satura by Alfredo Häberli a delicate yet functional modular rug, a composition of natural colours and geometrical cuts, made out of 100% pure new wool (wool felt).
Magis
In these difficult times for the industry Magis, and its inspiring stand, shone during the design week in Milan. Showing new products, proposing new ideas and even materials. Featured here are a couple of “Cyborgs” by Marcel Wanders, like the original ones, these chairs are the combination of both artificial and natural systems. Zartan by [...]
Green pockets
This project is obviously one of the winners in our Bucolic Empowerment category, these simple and beautiful plant pot/tiles by Maruja Fuentes not only allow you to bring nature into your home, they are also made of recycled materials, and can be placed in different configurations according to your vertical garden design.
Light games
When the “Salone del Mobile” arrives everyone knows “novelties” are on their way, the odd thing is that “novelties” never come alone, (despite the secrecy of the companies and the early rise of trends) when you see a “new object” there is always a twin sister around and some cousins, spy cases or trend sharing? [...]
Every bag counts
Campaigns like “one less plastic bag a day” on Facebook, talk about the daily awareness, we are all getting, on the state of our natural resources. Daily life without harming the environment results in a difficult task nowadays, using: our cars, hot water, wrappings, cling-film, fashion, nappies, takeaways, all those simple and practical friends from [...]
Bucolic Empowerment
“the agricultural community will become the planet’s new elite, dominating our essential needs and inspiring years of farmer styles. After all, the farmers of the future will clothe us, house us, feed us, fuel us and hopefully even heal us. Ultimately they will be able to engineer design and grow furniture in a symbiosis of [...]
Enhanced Architecture
I found this video looking through the June issue Wallpaper magazine, all about the “made in China”. Apart from the exceptional engineering and architectural work, what caught my attention was the sober use of colour, made visible just from some angles, not just adorning and communicating, but expressing all the richness of the Chinese culture. [...]
Artek and UPM ProFi
When I first came across “UPM ProFi” two years ago, in the Triennale museum of Milan, there wasn’t something really captivating about it. Artek’s pavilion, in the middle of the gardens, was built out of these bricks, made in a new composite material, recycled, water resistant (See the last picture on this entry, of one I still have on my [...]
360 Paper Water Bottle
Environ-mentally friendly world, this is the direction, a paper bottle, well, not just paper, it’s a sort of tetrapack. Anyway, it shows how people awareness is growing, and companies start to really care about the future generations. Designed by Brandimage, 2008
