1:12 pm in design competitions, food, Food & Health, michael pollan by TreeHugger
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News21
The UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism's
News21 program and
Good Magazine have shortlisted the three finalists in a competition to
design a better food label. They "asked for designs that were informative, instructive and memorable." Their first prize winner, Renee Walker, (with the wonderful website address
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11:22 am in architects, design competitions, recycled, recycled building material by TreeHugger
Images credit HplusF
After World War II,
Bucky Fuller's Dymaxion House was seen as an alternative product for the factories and workers who were no longer building airplanes; it used much of the same materials and technologies.
Perhaps architects Craig Hodgetts and HsinMing Fung of
HplusF were thinking of Bucky when they developed this design for turning Hummers into housing. The architects are quoted in
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8:07 am in architecture for humanity, Design & Architecture, design competitions, green roofs, shipping container architecture by TreeHugger
Images Credit Aphid iODEA on the
Open Architecture Network
I am late to the party on this one, already seen on
Inhabitat and
Gizmag, because it has taken me some time to figure out how it actually works. It's called the eCORRE, for Environmental Center of Regenerative Research & Education, designed by
APHIDoIDEA, "an open_collaborative_th...
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9:05 am in bikes, Design & Architecture, design competitions, designers, united states by TreeHugger
Photos: Popup Design
Whether they
rotate vertically,
loop and twist or
arch, the concept of bike racks as fixtures of public art is here to stay. In an effort to promote bike-friendliness in Roanoke, VA, the city is getting its very own piece of intriguing cycling art in the form of a giant wooden comb. This whimsical piece was created by ...
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7:24 pm in awards, Design & Architecture, design competitions, designers, furniture by TreeHugger
Play: Bike Shelf by Chris Brigham for Knife & Saw. Photos by RCruger
Yves Behar's
Jambox wireless speaker, a Public lightweight bike, prefab playhouse kit, paper tables, a Coke bottle chair, and 20 other product designs got
Dwell magazine's stamp of approval for its first-ever
Modern World Awards, presented at its
Dwell on Design conference last weekend. It's about tim...
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8:51 am in Design & Architecture, design competitions, new orleans, passive house by TreeHugger
Images Credit Sustainable TO
The
Passivhaus (now called Passive House in North America) standard is usually thought of as a response to temperate or cold conditions, given its German origin. Certainly its annual heating energy limits are not going to mean a lot in New Orleans, where
ArchDaily and
Design by Many ran a competition to design a Passive House. But there...
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image credit News21
The UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism's News21 program and Good Magazine have shortlisted the three finalists in a competition to design a better food label. They "asked for designs that were informative, instructive and memorable." Their first prize winner, Renee Walker, (with the wonderful website address Read the full story on TreeHugger
Photo: B. Alter
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Just what we needed dept.: a spinning bagel toaster! All images credit Electrolux
For the last nine years the big European appliance company, Electrolux, has run design competitions for industrial design students that have yielded remarkable results. Since we love designs that take up less space or are suitable for a more mobile style of living, this year the challenge was particularly exciting:
