Topic “design”
SITTING COKE
The almighty coke can. Influenced everything from the art movement to advertising genius. Here's another reason why we love it so much. Emeco makes it into a chair using 111 bottles and combined pigment and glass fiber into it for sturdiness. The Coke chair. Welcome to the future.
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SAVED BY DROOG
The slickest and smartest curated pieces have been snapped up by the design super agency DROOG. Many bankrupted companies products were snapped up through liquidation sales. Saved by Droog at the Milan Furniture Fair features 5135 items reworked into the latest. Featuring wallets, matches, spoons, pots, cola glasses, handkerchiefs and more. All are ready for purchase on their site along with 19 Limited edition's. Even the works of Maison Martin Margiela, Atelier Ted Van Noten, Studio Makkink and Stefan Sagmeister have been resurrected by Droog. We say this is one of the best!
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CHOP SEAT
Just like the SIT PROJECT we previously blogged about, these street installations by Arno Piraud caught our attention. Trees that were diseased and cut down gave way to mini seats in the city. His Cityscape project proposal highlight the use of design amongst urban spaces, we like it very much.
(via itsnicethat)
Sculpted waste
Thinking creatively with clothing waste - Derick Melander transforms them into pieces of art through his sculptures as shown here. According to Derick, New Yorkers create 3,615 pounds of textile waste every 5 mins. Here's to making good use of that.
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paper bags
Saskia Diez comes up with these recyclable paper bags, literally. Water safe and tear safe. In fact, design goodness too.
Plastiki
12,000 plastic bottles have been put together and now are on sail across the Pacific.
Plastiki is an upcycled plastic boat that started it's journey in San Fransisco and now makes it's way across the ocean to Australia. Stopping off at islands along the way, the crew on board look to learn and highlight environmental issues facing the Pacific islands with a mission to open eyes to re-thinking waste and it's possibilities as a resource.
High on cradle-to-cradle thinking, Plastiki's founder David de Rothschild was alarmed by the garbage patch story and got inspired to create an expedition to push understanding on the waste we produce and the innovation that is necessary to close the cycle.
Follow their journey here.
SUNSET SHIPPED
Prefab shipping containers angled to the sunset opposite the Harbor in Incheon, South Korea. Absolute perfection.
(via inhabitat)
TRIPPED OUT PENCILS
Acid trippin' pencils on your body. Loving these accessories by Maria Christina Belucci.
(via haute nature)
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