Green

London-based Norwegian designer and illustrator Amy Hunting created the Patchwork furniture series from waste wood and offcuts collected from factories. More »

Swedish automotive design graduate Jon Rådbrink presented a concept for a catamaran-shaped car at the Royal College of Art graduation show in London last month. More »

The interior of Barrio North, a bar by London architects Anarchitect, features back-to-front tiles and a cannibalised caravan. More »

Mexican design collective NEL have designed Global Warming Rug for Spanish textiles brand Nanimarquina. More »

Public Farm One by Work Architecture Company is an urban farming project, shown outside the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Centre in New York last month. More »

New Designers 08: here are some more pictures of Oliver Bishop-Young’s SkipWaste project, which suggests new uses for dumpsters. More »

Charles Barclay Architects have completed the Kielder Observatory in Northumberland, UK. More »

New Designers 08: Goldsmiths University graduate Oliver Bishop-Young presented two projects about skips at New Designers in London earlier this month. More »

New Designers 08: At New Designers in London last week Andrew Ross exhibited a collection of objects made of waste cow bones, which he collected from an abattoir. More »

Czech designer Jan Čtvrtník has won the Climate Competition organised by Droog with a vase based on Alvar Aalto’s famous design, but modified to express the effects of global warming. More »

X–Architects of Dubai have designed an urban complex called Xeritown that aims to be a more sustainable mode of development than recent projects in the emirate. More »

Designer Constantinos Economides has sent a few photos of his Rocking Plaftorms - a range of rockers made of found chairs mounted on curved wooden platforms. More »

Spanish/Mexican architects Cadaval & Solà-Morales designed an exhibition of works by artist Susana Solano at Fundación ICO in Madrid, made almost entirely of recycled materials. More »

Following requests from readers of our earlier story, we have now got hold of the full set of images in the Flooded London series by Squint/Opera. More »

Around 20 international artists and designers have created habitats for threatened British species from recycled materials for a charity auction to be held in London later this month. Above: Michael Young. Below: Peter Marigold. More »







