Italian designers Riccardo Nannini, Domenico Orefice and Emanuele Pizzolorusso created this more than clever prototype of recycling bin. 50 disposable and biodegradable pleated- recycled paper containers, nested inside one another. Once the top paper-bag layer gets full the only think you do is to pull it up and throw it away! Then, just start…
Life is the name of this paper made water bottle. Life has been made out of recycled paper. The design of the bottle is very simple. You would only find a double stitch that provides rigidity to the bottle and a green cotton cord wrapped with paper that allows people to hang Life on their…
This is a Sky Planter from Fire Escape Farms, a hanging plant system! Sky Planter is made from ceramic with stainless wire and comes in two sizes. It is perfect for urban planting, especially for apartments and other small places. A locking disc holds the soil and plant in place, and an innovative reservoir system conserves…
Brooklyn designer Danielle Trofe has invented a self-irrigating planter system that does the watering for you! Live screen is a vertical, modular and movable structure.Pod-like planters hang off of tapered poles that hide electric, gravity-driven watering pumps. The pumps are also set on a timer that activates the water flow at intervals that coincide to the plants’ hydration…
Finnish based artist Jonna Pohjalainen, definitely draw some attention with this large scale art installation. Pohjalainen aim is to raise society’s awareness of the environmental issues; aspen logs were turned into colored pencils as a way to express the complexity of resources and energy that go into transforming lumber into simple everyday products, many of which…
Alexi is turning 3 and we found this re-designed bike as a gift inspiration for his birthday! Italian manufacturer Abici just launched their Velocino. It is originaly comming from bikes of the 30s and 40s. This mini bike was firstly inspired by Mussolini; he wanted to offer Italians a compact, light and handy vehicle that people could…
Did you know that you can make vessels out of flour? Design firm Formafantasia did. Simplicity and beauty are exemplified in these vessels made out of 70% flour, 20% agricultural waste, and 10% natural limestone. Vegetables, spices and roots are used to create the different hues in the bowls, vases and lamps. The materials are either…
‘Matières à Chaud’ or else radiators in the way 5.5 designers for saazs interpet them. Is a series of 12 unique pieces that should be considered more than just objects that provide heat to the interior environment. As designboom claims, ‘matières à chaud’ should be seen as a landscape in which artificial materials create a certain ambient heat!…
Oil recycling in Barcelona, has its own pot! And its name is Olipot! In 2010 the recycling centers, called ‘Green Points’, collected 195.136 liters of used kitchen oil from households, which only counts for 2,5% of the total oil used in one year by Barcelonians. In order to make recycling oil easier, Barcelona City Council…
A new file format, a new free software supporting this kind of format, was presented by the German chapetr of WWF to the public. This green file format is a kind of pdf that allows you to save a document as a file that literally cannot be printed out. The software is a free download, and is…
