Yes, it is true. Yes, it is UP’s house. Yes, it is real and it reached an altitude of 10.000 feet, UP in the air, before it’s gently landing… Everything started on March 5th, east of LA, when National Geographic Channel launched this real-life version of the UP balloon-lofted house from an air field to break the world record for the largest flight…
indoor plant turned pendant lighting…..it brights your day! (via re-nest.com & emmas designblogg)
We all have bought things that we do not necessarily ever need or like anymore, they don’t fit us, they are out of fashion or are spoiled, torn, damaged. And this is were yiuco comes; Don’t throw it, Yiuco It!! we say! Our motto urges to think a second time before trashing something as “useless”….
‘Horsey’ by eungi kim from korea is one of the shortlisted design entries from more than 3000 participants in recent designboom’s competition, ‘seoul cycle design competition 2010’, organized in collaboration with seoul design foundation. Is an attachable bicycle ornament/accessory which makes one’s bicycle look horsey! It includes wooden ornaments (horsey shape body), metal parts, and screws. Just imaging seing…
The Argentine National Institute for Industrial Technology (INTI) is taking an interesting alternative approach in natural dyes for textiles: they’re experimenting with the extraction of pigments from agricultural waste and its conservation in dust form.They’ve already tested 20 different materials, and are very excited about peanut shells. The experiments are being carried away by the Chemical Department…
“Why does our bicycle need to be connected to light poles by chains like a criminal in prison? Inspired by nature, the design of this cable wire lock is a mimicry of ivy.” These are the actual words of the “Ivy’s” designer Sono Mocci from Italy. Mocci has been sortlisted at designboom competition, ‘seoul cycle…
What is the case when one European country is banning fur from the catwalk and another wears it? Have a look!
Pit Industry is a small hand-blown glasshouse for your window-sill. Drop the seeds or pits through the chimney, and the sun and some water will make it grow. Frederike Top designed this together with Jana Flohr for Tuttobene. What a lovely post for new year’s beginning!
After “walk more drive less”, Shanghai is communicating ….chopstics. Made out of various materials like porcelain, steel, plastic and bamboo, chopsticks of the disposable wooden variety have long been the most used utensil in China’s restaurants. Some 25 million trees are required to feed the country’s annual chopstick need, which means that at this rate…
Devastating fires that burned 5,000 hectares of forest in the area haven’t kept Haifa, Israel’s third-largest city, from being able to put up a massive Christmas tree in the center of town. While the holiday project was planned by Israeli designer Hadas Itzcovitch and her father, artist Ernest Itzcovitch, well in advance of the tragic Carmel fire,…
