Royal College of Art graduate Fabien Cappello has created a collection of furniture from unwanted Christmas trees. More »
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July 2nd, 2009
July 2nd, 2009
Frank Gehry is one of 14 architects to have designed duplexes for Make it Right, the charity founded by actor Brad Pitt to develop new housing typologies for a hurricane-devastated district of New Orleans. More »
July 1st, 2009
Cape Town designers Animal Farm have produced an “organic lounger” made from woven branches that hangs in a tree and is reached by a rope ladder. More »
June 26th, 2009
Finnish architects C-Laboratory have completed a timber house on a cherry farm in the mountains of northern Taiwan. More »
June 25th, 2009
Dezeenwire: Sears Tower in Chicago is to undergo a $350 million green refit to “reduce the tower’s electricity use by 80% and save 24 million gallons of water a year”. The Guardian
June 24th, 2009
French designer Benjamin Graindorge has designed a garden that floats on the surface of a fishtank and uses fish waste as fertiliser. More »
June 19th, 2009
June 11th, 2009
DMY Berlin 09: Latvian designers Merci Design presented a range of children’s furniture made of recycled paper pulp at DMY Youngsters in Berlin last week. More »
June 5th, 2009
More recycled work from Swiss designer Anne-Cécile Rappa: Najah, Lazara and Ilham are a series of lights made of found objects sheathed in knitted plastic bags. More »
June 5th, 2009
DMY Berlin 09: Viennese designers Mischer’Traxler have created a solar-powered machine that makes furniture, with the shape and colour of each product determined by the amount of sunlight available during manufacture. More »
June 4th, 2009
Industrial designer Anne-Cécile Rappa has designed Bent, a pouf made of recycled polypropylene bags knitted together. More »
May 29th, 2009
Industrial designer Karin Ehrnberger and interaction designer Loove Broms of the Interactive Institute in Sweden have designed a series of household objects highlighting energy consumption in daily activities. More »
May 17th, 2009
Ten designers including Ted Muehling (above), Yves Béhar (below), Stephen Burks and Maya Lin have created objects for Design for a Living World, an exhibition of products using sustainable materials from around the world that opened at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York this week. More »
May 7th, 2009
Wattcher is a product that monitors domestic electricity use, designed by Marcel Wanders for Dutch company Innovaders. More »
April 24th, 2009
Barcelona-based H Arquitectes have completed School Gym 704 in Barberà del Vallès, Spain. More »
April 11th, 2009
March 29th, 2009
British designer Karen Ryan has sent a series of images showing the development of her latest project, called In The Woods. More »
March 16th, 2009
Designer Anders Wilhelmson, in collaboration with Camilla Wirseen and Peter Thuvander, has developed the Peepoo bag - a single-use, disposable toilet bag intended to improve sanitary conditions in developing nations. More »
March 10th, 2009
March 2nd, 2009
