in 1961 john habraken designed the WOrld BOttle: a new beer bottle for heineken that upcycles into a building material, turning an often-disposed and hard-to-recycle product into an empowering tool for do-it-yourself home building.
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green gadgets
some of the problems i had trying to find out the environmental impact of consumer electronics are 1) different guides exist that rely on different standards 2) the companies make misleading declarations and seem to be actively removing information about their processes and 3) few alternatives exist – all electronics are made of the same […]
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creation story
natalie jeremijenko started a wiki called how stuff is made to tell the story of how various products are made, from wine bottles and american flags to colombian flowers (above). the anemic collection requires people to submit manufacturing processes to wikipedia, providing that the manufacturers are proud enough to reveal their standards.
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blight sight
object orange is a guerrilla art project that paints abandaned homes in the detroit area bright orange to highlight the blight – a kind of urban highlighter. so far four of the eleven painted homes have been demolished. some beautiful images are with one of the artists, paul kotula documentary on youtube via wooster
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compact disc = expansive life cycle
the epa published this poster to show the complex processes involved in the production of compact discs – a process that’s especially costly when compared with the environmental cost of downloading music digitally via treehugger
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open products
the makers’ bill of rights rests on the simple premise of making products easy to operate and modify by using commonly available parts and designing them to be replaced or modified. it could stand as the beginning of an open-source industrial design philosophy. among its many advantages are that open products can last longer, and […]
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augmented trashcan
flotsam by eric paulos is an augmented trash can that projects its contents onto the street. part of this ‘research’ is a stalk-ography of users and passersby.
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wealth worries
chances are, if you’re reading this blog you are among the richest people in the world – find out at globalrichlist via information aesthetics
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