New trends, accessories with wood trim

New trends, accessories with wood trim

Wood, wood, wood! Will want to warm materials, will be an impetus (fake) ecological, is a normal rotation after a period of supremacy of cold materials and plastic, but it seems this year are forcing many furnishings and accessories made of wood or decorated with streaks and bark. Network are depopulating these pillows... 

A Drop of Water-watering tank for rainwater

A Drop of Water-watering tank for rainwater

A water tank with integrated watering: that the draft submitted by the young designer Bas van der Veer with A Drop of Water. The idea is to use easily and without waste collecting rainwater to irrigate their orchards and gardens. A valid alternative to tap water, which unlike the rain charges and above requires a certain... 

Paper House, kiosks design in London

August 9, 2010 Filed Under: Design, Eco design Tags: , , ,
Paper House, kiosks design in London

Municipalities of London’s Royal Kensington and Chelsea decided to give a new face to some corners of their streets. To replace the old shrines in fact, considered ugly and anonymous, the two districts have asked Heatherwick Studio, known design studio, to create new ones. Paper House were born then, structures of... 

Eco-shower with plants that filter water

Eco-shower with plants that filter water

Saving water for the shower that already used purification through the use of plants. This concept developed by Jun Yasumoto, Vincent Vandenbrouk Olivier Pigasse and The Alban Henry to reduce the waste of water in the bathroom. All using very little energy and producing oxygen through the growth of the green. The dirty... 

The tableware pop-up Katinka Versendaal

The tableware pop-up Katinka Versendaal

Stems from an ironic contradiction, this series of articles in paper Katinka Versendaal, a young designer from Belgium, graduated from the Design Academy Eindhoven. On the one hand the nature of the accessories that are created to be shown on the other hand, the form that will pop up ‘hiding’. Inspired by Escher,... 

Save Food From The Fridge, when the design does without the refrigerator

Save Food From The Fridge, when the design does without the refrigerator

Save Food From The Fridge, Jihyun Ryou graduate project of the Design Academy Eindhoven, call into question our assumptions about food storage in the refrigerator. Based on proven scientific theories (which is not dissimilar from the old popular knowledge), Ryou has designed a number of experimental prototypes of handouts... 

Chrome Hotel by Sanjay Puri Architect property

Chrome Hotel by Sanjay Puri Architect property

The new Chrome Hotel, designed by Sanjay Puri, is a structure that combines aesthetics original (reminiscent of Swiss cheese full of holes) with the need to curb energy waste. Presents an unusual facade, characterized by holes that allow natural light to penetrate, but keeping the cost of air-conditioning to a minimum. The... 

Fantasy Creatures by Slamp

Fantasy Creatures by Slamp

Slamp launches a new line of lamps that look like sea creatures as to be baptized with the name of the Creatures. The project, signed by designer Nigel Coates, is innovative and not only in design: the lamps are in fact implemented using Olpaflex, biodegradable plastic mixed with polycarbonate. This innovative material...