via ffffound.com
Design makes a tremendous impact on the produced world in terms of usability, resources, understanding, and priorities. What we produce, how we serve customers and other stakeholders, and even how we understand how the world works is all affected by the design of models and solutions. Designers have an unprecedented opportunity to use their skills to make meaningful, sustainable change in the world–if they know how to focus their skills, time, and agendas. In Design is the Problem: The Future of Design Must be Sustainable, Nathan Shedroff examines how the endemic culture of design often creates unsustainable solutions, and shows how designers can bake sustainability into their design processes in order to produce more sustainable solutions.
- Nathan Shedroff [via Core77]
Archive for the ‘Junk’ Category
Design is the problem: food for thought
Thursday, January 8th, 2009
I’m all for polka-dots but this is disturbing
Wednesday, December 17th, 2008
There’s a lot of “i” sounding things that come before this $349USD chair, but eye catching is not one of them. Ey Karumba! Ey ey ey! My EYES hurt. Don’t let the shag rug fool you. Those books are props full of empty pages. Via Cult of Mac
4 of the hottest Karl Lagerfeld cases
Friday, November 21st, 2008-
- Fendi iPod briefcase
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- Fendi iPod holder
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- 6 bottle case of Dom Perignon
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- Louis Vuitton iPod trunk system
I think I know what I want for Christmas. 1, 2, 3 AND 4. Oh yeah. Ghetto fabulous ovah here.
This week in design
Sunday, November 9th, 2008
- Photo c/o Annie Mole
If I were to have a studio outside the home, this set up would definitely be the place. The Village Underground are offices that rent for around £30/wk in Shoreditch featuring artists, loads of designers, producers, and more. You know their old Underground Carriages, by sight, and they were pulled up from the Jubilee Line.
- View Annie Mole’s Flickr slideshow on the Tube Offices
- More deets via TreeHugger.com & here again.
I’d also love a shipping container like these. Recycling and reusing doesn’t fall to far from the tree for me. My mom was called “the garbage queen” for picking out organic waste for her floral designs. I’d pick these types of housing over Millennium Water and a $100M disaster of my dollars any day.
This week in design
National Portrait Gallery has been cancelled. In the most latest edition of the Harper government arts cuts, the proposed “risky” $100M National Portrait Gallery had been cancelled blaming the economic “slow-down”. But we were told that Canada is unaffected so I don’t understand the logic!?
The World Economic Forum – Summit on the Global Agenda submits a design manifesto. Fitting that the Summit was held in Dubai, which is facing an environmental sewage disaster. “The GAC on Demographic Shifts was especially interested in the development of design-led solutions to problems of ageing. Similar requests were made by the GACs on terrorism, global governance, water security, future of entertainment and HIV/AIDS, among others.”
Tokyo Design Festival 2008 wrapped up.
Photo c/o Wii
Boys can do yoga too… and a video game at the same time! Wii Fit does it all for you.
Aw! Isn’t this cute? It would make me camp in a heart beat.
Low speed electric cars are now legal on non-major thoroughfares in VanCity. At $16G’s a pop, the Smart Car still has ZENN beat but I think that Mini will have us all blown away with 0-60mph in 4 seconds. Blah blah blah… read all about it on TreeHugger.com, of course!
XXXXL jeans will make XS backpacks: Peru
Saturday, November 1st, 2008
LIMA, Peru – A waste of time, money and resources? This 7.5 tonne pair of jeans was made in hopes of winning the Guinness World Book of Records title of largest pair of jeans. [Reuters] Macha Picchu aside, we might think that this is a very odd and strange thing for Peru to do but they are actually a country of professional seamstresses and tailors.
There is a plus side to this grotesque consumerist pair of jeans because it will be cut up and made into backpacks for area school children. It’s not clear if they will be provided to the 20% impoverished population of children or to the extremely wealthy.
Electric blankets save your heat bill
Saturday, October 18th, 2008Those of you who live is an antique or retro home, this tip is for you. Direct from TreeHugger, a excellent report on how an electric blanket can save you 10% per year off your heating bill. Read more…
Andy Warhol Lexington Avenue
Wednesday, October 15th, 2008
Courtesy Bond No. 9 New Yort
My two favorite things: Andy Warhol and Lexington Avenue.
An authentic reproduction of Warhol’s fantasy shoe collage dances across the bottle in rich, saturated colors. The fragrance itself is an unapologetically seductive floral woody chypre and a harmony of contemporary gourmand notes: blue cypress, roasted almonds, pink peony, crème brulée and sandalwood.
$195 USD for 100ml. Available at Holt Renfrew.