Dutch designer Pepe Heykoop has worked with people from one of Mumbai's poorest areas to transform traditional water carriers into leathery vases. More »
Green
Matka Vases
Green Climate Fund Headquarters by LAVA
Germany, one of six countries bidding to host the United Nations' Green Climate Fund, have selected Laboratory for Visionary Architecture (LAVA) to design a sustainable HQ in Bonn if their bid is successful. More »
Designed in Hackney: East London Furniture
Designed in Hackney: our pick of design talent in the London borough of Hackney today is East London Furniture, a company that makes all its products from scrap materials found in the local area surrounding its shop on Hoxton Street. More »
Maizy by Spalvieri / Del Ciotto
Milan designers Spalvieri / Del Ciotto have created a range of calculators, clocks, torches and radios that are made of corn starch. More »
OLPC XO-3 by fuseproject
San Francisco studio fuseproject have unveiled the OLPC XO-3, a tablet computer for the next generation of the One Laptop Per Child project to distribute robust, cheap, self-powered computers for education in the developing world. More »
The Sea Chair by Alexander Groves,
Azusa Murakami and Kieren Jones
What if plastic polluting the seas could be harvested by a retired fishing trawler, then transformed into chairs by an onboard factory? More »
WasteLandscape by Elise Morin
and Clémence Eliard
An undulating landscape made of 65,000 discarded CDs carpets the floor of the Centquatre art space, housed in a former funeral home in Paris. More »
From Here For Here by Ariane Prin
Show RCA 2011: Royal College of Art graduate Ariane Prin uses waste from college workshops as the raw material for her on-site pencil factory More »
The Solar Sinter
by Markus Kayser
Show RCA 2011: German designer Markus Kayser has built a 3D-printing machine that uses sunlight and sand to make glass objects in the desert. More »
SafetyNet by Dan Watson
Royal College of Art student Dan Watson has designed a trawling net that filters young and endangered fish from the catch. More »
Catalytic Clothing
by Helen Storey and Tony Ryan
This movie by Adam Mufti features supermodel Erin O'Connor wearing a dress that incorporates a catalytic converter. This is the first part of a collaboration between designer Helen Storey and chemist Tony Ryan to create clothes that filter pollution from the air. Music is by Radiohead.
O’ Mighty Green by STAR Strategies + Architecture
Rotterdam studio STAR Strategies + Architecture have photoshopped green walls over images of iconic buildings to poke fun at the way architects believe cladding a building in plants makes it sustainable. More »
Competition: five copies of Urban Orchard
to be won
Competition: we have teamed up with The Architecture Foundation in London to give away five copies of their book Union Street Urban Orchard, which charts the transformation of a disused London plot into a public garden. More »
Talamanca Cocoa by fuseproject
San Francisco designers fuseproject have designed packaging and a grating tool for hardened pure cacao, which is farmed among the natural ecosystem of the Costa Rican rainforest. More »
Da Morto A Orto by Peter Bottazzi
and Denise Bonapace
Milan 2011: Designers Peter Bottazzi and Denish Bonapace presented this exhibition of recycled furniture used as planters, in Milan earlier this month. More »