today’s AP story about the falseness of e-waste recycling is a little late, nevertheless it points out the important fact the electronics can’t really be recycled (much like other products), rather they’re burned and hacked apart to salvage what little precious metals they contain. the most important point of the article is that recycling of […]
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blogjects
last friday i was invited by tom klinkowstein to talk about ‘living objects’ at pratt in an event called ‘it’s alive! (experience design)‘ together with irene pereyra and anthony townsend. the event looked at what the life of a designer would be like in 2030. here are some images from the poster that was prepared […]
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artificial tusks
in the late nineteenth century billiard balls were the fourth most important use of ivory, after knife handles, piano keys and combs, but they required the largest and highest quality tusks. nearly 50 tons of ivory were made into billiard balls each year for the european and american markets. consumption had exhausted supplies almost entirely, […]
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future fashion
anyone considering submitting to this year’s seamless fashion show might want to watch this compilation of projects from last summer’s siggraph unravel show of future fashions. this is my latest edit of all the projects i was able to grab as well as interviews with a number of designers.
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MANUFACTU(RED)
product(RED) has received an amazing amount of positive press for a for-profit company that allows major brands to widely advertise as being ethical while distributing tiny amounts of profit to a charity that provides AIDS drugs to Africa. one notable critic is buylesscrap.org, who argue that shopping is not the answer and that direct giving […]
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green-washing bottles
today i forgot my water bottle and ended up buying one with my lunch, only to discover that poland springs had responded to the fury over bottled water in its own way: by using a new ‘eco-shape’ bottle, made from the same PETG as before, but containing ‘up to 30% less’ of the material. here […]
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lego electronics
bug labs did it! they are making electronic blocks that you can plug together to make any device you want. yesterday they finally released images of their products, which include a docking base, GPS unit, touch LCD screen, camera/webcam and motion detector – all tied together with an open SDK. although not yet available for […]
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free chairs! (as in beer, not speech)
tom dixon had a chair grab in trafalgar square where hundreds of his polystyrene chairs were available for anyone to take home. but then, to make money, he coated eight of the same chairs in copper and has them on sale for an unnamed price at moss. i like this new application of the open […]
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