[breyn-i-keyn] Brainstorming on a Higher Level
Photo credit: Milan Italy
Jonah Lehrer, author of the new book called “How We Decide,” had an interesting piece in the Boston Globe describing how the city affects the brain. Unfortunately, Lehrer tells us, being in an urban environment damages our basic mental processes. A few minutes spent on a crowded city street apparently reduces the […]
While having coffee with another design blogger, we discussed the future of design in the new economy. I suggested that furniture might follow food: people will want to look the designer in the eye to ensure that they are getting something built to last that is fair value and made from local materials. We know […]
When you’re buying a new electronics products there’s lots to consider. A few years ago there was practically zero information if you wanted to make an environmentally sounder choice. The huge problems caused by the dumping of old electronics in places like Ghana was only just starting to be recognized. Fast forward to 2009 and […]
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With Stair P*rn on hiatus I have to work for a living and find lovely renovations like this one, designed by b-arch in Florence. While I cannot tell if the stair is made from recycled material, just about everything else in the loft is. …
Efficiency. Image credit:Nature.com
Projections from the International Energy Agency show global energy demand growing by close to 30 percent by 2020, setting the stage for massive growth in the carbon dioxide emissions that are warming our planet. But as my colleagues and I at the Earth Policy Institute demonstrate, by dramatically ramping up energy efficiency […]
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TerraCycle’s Urban Pots are made from 100% e-waste. Using items like crushed computers and fax machines that would otherwise be destined for landfills, the organization gives them new life as a planter.
Read on for a video on how the pots are made. …
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It’s like Lucy in Peanuts, except John Morefield offers architecture, not psychiatry, for a nickel. (sometimes, particularly in residential architecture, they are hard to tell apart). The young architect set up a booth at a farmers market in Seattle and is dispensing advice for a nickel a pop. (Five cents more than […]
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Here it comes, a 46 bed year round hotel to be anchored next to the famous Salt & Sill Restaurant in Gothenberg, Sweden. …
Here is a look that should do well in America: Stockholm designer Katarina Hall designs “Save”- furniture inspired by abandoned houses and boarded up doors and windows. …
Austrian designer Chris Precht squeezes an entire apartment into a 3 meter (10 foot) cube.
The project explores the creative potential of the material world on the one hand and a study of living in a compressed space on the other hand.
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