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From The Shooting Range

By Katherine • Dec 28th, 2008 • Category: Design Ethics, Industrial Design, Product Design, Recent Posts, Sustainable Design

These little personalities are part of Rachel Pfeffer’s Bullet Buddies collection. Each Bullet Buddy is unique labored over until it obtains its own form and expression.



Solar Sailing Super-Yachts

By Katherine • Nov 6th, 2008 • Category: Design Ethics, Engineering, Industrial Design, Recent Posts, Sustainable Design, Transportation Design

Super-yachts owned by super-billionaires aren’t usually thought of as being environmentally friendly. They are, first and foremost, symbols of in-your-face wealth, (and, in some cases, possibly signs of having to compensate for something.) But a new interest in making sea transportation energy efficient has been emerging.
CNN’s article,  “Solar sails could turn super-yachts green”, points out [...]



Fashionable Fitness: Stella McCartney’s New Adidas Line

By Katherine • Sep 19th, 2008 • Category: Apparel, Design Ethics, Designers, Fashion, International, Recent Posts, Sustainable Design

Stella McCartney opened up the gym for London fashion week, complete with Olympians, to display her new collection of Adidas sportswear. Her winter collection for 2008 is currently available at Adidas, but her sustainable spring 2009 collection debuted this week in London. And what better way to show off sportswear than seeing it in action [...]



Sustainable Design, Going Green the Old Fashioned Way

By Chris Prince • Sep 5th, 2008 • Category: Architecture, Furniture Design, Industrial Design, Interior Design, Product Design, Recent Posts, Sculpture, Sustainable Design, Traditional Art

Recently I have been in the mood to buy a bike, not anything fancy mind you, but a good plain old fashioned bicycle. However, knowing myself, I would use it for the first few days, and if the bike gets lucky maybe even a week before I forget about it or just consider it too [...]



Sustainable Cardboard Toilet?

By Megalongcat • Aug 20th, 2008 • Category: Design Ethics, Product Design, Recent Posts, Sustainable Design

I am definitely not a tree hugger in any shape or manner.  Perhaps my girlfriend is; which would explain her love for animals and plants above human life, but that’s the closest you’ll catch me to the eco-love business that’s been floating around.  I should also say that I understand the sheer importance of sustainability [...]



The Water Cube: Bubble Wrap Can Be Sustainable

By Katherine • Aug 13th, 2008 • Category: Architecture, Design Ethics, International, Recent Posts, Sustainable Design

China, especially when looking at its major cities, isn’t exactly the model student when it comes to taking care of the environment (though China isn’t really entirely to blame). Recent construction for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games meant increased air pollution for the residents of Beijing especially, but when the dust settled, an interest in [...]



Zero Energy: The GreenPIX Wall

By Megalongcat • Aug 7th, 2008 • Category: Architecture, Design Ethics, Ethical Design, Sustainable Design

Quick Facts:

The Media Wall will provide the city of Beijing with its first venue dedicated to digital media art
Features largest color LED display in the world.
First photovoltaic system with glass curtain
Greenpix behaves like an organic system, absorbing solar energy during the day and then generating light from the same power that evening

Completely aside the fact [...]



Demand Responsible Action by Architects.

By Megalongcat • Jul 25th, 2008 • Category: Design Ethics, Ethical Design

My father, an amazing designer though we never talk about the subject together, regularly subscribes to Metropolis magazine: a magazine dedicated to all forms of architecture design from interior design to environmental design. For the longest time I didn’t even bother to read the stacks upon stacks of magazines until one day I decided to [...]