* Basa Fish? No thanks.
Posted on January 23rd, 2009 by alessio.
* Isave
Posted on October 27th, 2008 by alessio.
Apply Isave on a faucet or on your shower and it will tell you how many litres of water you are consuming.
Isave it is easy to install and it doesn’t require external energy as long as it uses an internal turbine which activates when the water pressurise it.
Designer: Reamon Yu
* Jarst – Mini composter
Posted on October 27th, 2008 by alessio.
Make your own compost!
Put your organic waste inside Jarst and after 5-6 months, when the compost is ready, it will be released through a diaphram.
Designer: Leonardo Fortino & Andrea Bartolucci
* Junktion Studio
Posted on October 24th, 2008 by alessio.
Great examples of Re-use by Junktion studio, Tel Aviv
‘gas clock’, made from old stove parts
’suitcase closet’, suitcase, wooden shelves
‘kitchen lamp’, cooking pot, flexible metal pipes, teapots
* Lost & Found’s Upcycled Furniture
Posted on October 24th, 2008 by alessio.
* Flytipped Furniture
Posted on October 23rd, 2008 by alessio.
Alexena Cayless gives new life to old found furniture evoking their past life through imprint pictures.
You can see other great works on Farm Design website, a british design collective formed by Giles Miller, Guy Brown, Sebastian Hejna and Alexena Cayless
* D.I.Y. – Tubench
Posted on October 23rd, 2008 by alessio.
Tubench surely is a curious and fun outdoor piece of furniture. Not too easy to do it yourself though.
* Hal 9000
Posted on October 23rd, 2008 by alessio.
* Terra Grass Chair
Posted on October 23rd, 2008 by alessio.
Grow your own chair in the garden.
Cheap, easy to use, sustainable and definitely uncommon.
Assemble the cardboard frame, fill it with soil and seed it with grass.
In a couple weeks you can enjoy a soft and green seat.
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* Ezio Manzini
Posted on October 16th, 2008 by alessio.
It took several days thinking about the topic of the first post of my blog.
In the end I decided to “dedicate” it to my first (and actually one of the best I’ve had) professor, Ezio Manzini.
If you are keen on sustainable design probably you’ll already know his blog, otherwise: Ezio Manzini’s Blog.
Here an excerpt from his latest post:
“Being a designer means being an optimist: given the problems, all the problems even the most difficult, all we can do is to presume there is a possibility of solving them, not because we cannot see the difficulties (designers must also be realists), but because we have no alternative. To be designers we must make proposals, and we cannot but base these on such opportunities as we come across.
It seems to me that, faced with a world drifting rapidly towards catastrophe, we need this designer realism-optimism more then ever. We have to see the problems, but also to think that in spite of everything, it is possible to solve them; we must get down to finding solutions. Maybe this is why we are all here today.”
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