Tag: Crafts - Page 5
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Handmade Online Marketplace Etsy Raises $20 Million Financing
Handmade is becoming big business -- reeeally big. Etsy -- the online marketplace for handmade items -- announced earlier this week that it has raised $20 million in venture capital financing and has now tripled its valuation at $300 million (not
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Cork Furniture and Cardboard Bars by Marina68 (Photos)
At TreeHugger we like cork, that warm material that can be harvested without chopping down trees, is fully renewable and biodegradable and can be shaped into many funky objects apart from stoppers to keep the wine in the bottles. The designers at
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Inspiration: Accessories Made With Fallen Leaves and Dry Straws
We've been seen plants and natural elements integrate to pretty much everything lately: chairs, fashion accessories, you name it. And although they're probably more concept than real sustainable solutions for products, they show
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Feed Your Kids to a Shark-Shaped Sleeping Bag
For anyone who's ever wished they could experience the joy and comfort of being eaten by a stuffed shark, one designer has created a menacing-looking sleeping bag that will make short work of the sandman. Dubbed the ChumBuddy,
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ICFF Preview: Hottest New Furniture Designs From A to Z
TreeHugger is off to the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) this week to find the best in green design. Last year we noted that not everything we show on TreeHugger is deep green, but everything has some kernel of an idea that is interesting
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Milan Furniture Fair 2010: "Eruption" Blanket Predicted Volcano Woes in 2005
I can't get over this blanket by Icelandic knitting factory Vík Prjónsdóttir shown at the Milan Furniture Fair last week. Yes, they
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Milan Furniture Fair 2010: Design Academy Eindhoven is asking questions!
One of the shows that stood out this year at the Milan Furniture Fair was the Design Academy Eindhoven's Question exhibition at the up and coming district Ventura Lambrate. With
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Milan Furniture Fair 2010: Live Bio-resin Performance by Breaded Escalope (Video)
There are plenty of cocktail parties at the Furniture Fair in Milan, but this one was quite different. All the way out in Zona Bovisa we visited the show Meet My Project and were greeted at a bar that served fresh... bioresin products! The 3 designers
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Customizable Recycled Notebooks from Scout Books
Even with Steve Jobs laying claim to the word "Pad" and smartphones taking the place of the pocket notebook, there is still plenty of room for transferring thoughts to cellulose with an ink-filled pen or wooden pencil. People got a kick out of our
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Milan Furniture Fair 2010: Autarchy by Studio Formafantasma
For a real touch of Italy, go and visit the installation "Autarchy" by Studio Formafantasma at this week's Furniture Fair in Milan. The project celebrates an autonomous way of producing goods, using bio-materials. It is a
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La Pell - How green is this local leather design project?
Leather might not seem the most treehugger-liked material, but like with any material, it depends how you use it, where it comes from and what processes it has undergone. A few craftsmen
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Become a Rich Person with a Seed Safe by Martà Guixé
Alessi has just launched a new product by Spanish designer Martí Guixé; the Seed Safe. It is a beautiful jar, dedicated to collect the seeds from vegetables and fruits we eat so that they can be planted instead of thrown away or composted. Guixé, who
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Sheila Kennedy and the Portable Light Project
Not your typical architecture firm, Sheila Kennedy and her cohorts at KVA MATx are stripping apart the built environment and reassembling it with an eye for flexibility. Her vision: a world of distributed power in which solar potential is woven into the
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Angels, Reindeers, Pigs and Christmas Trees; sustainable wood decoration by Lovi
more images below Matteria, good design+smart materials online store, suggest a spicy Christmas this year, without forgetting the environment. Apart from the gorgeous cork advent candle holder, the cosy Finnish red felt slippers, and giftbags to spoil
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Green Holiday Gift Guide: The DIY'er (Slideshow)
Handmade gifts come with a meaning all their own, whether you're packaging up a tin of your grandmother's famous holiday cookies or making a collage of photos from your parents' wedding day. And if you're giving to someone who has a knack for hands-on
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Green Holiday Gift Guide: The WeeHugger (Slideshow)
Give your kids that same awestruck wonder you remember as a tot--without investing in plastic toys that break within days, leaving behind a pile of landfill-ready junk and the feeling you would have been better off just giving the wrapping paper. From
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Green Holiday Gift Guide: The Pop Culture Fan (Slideshow)
You may not be keeping up with the pop culture phenomenons of blood-sucking vampires, high school glee clubs, and Dan Brown novels, but chances are good that someone on your list is. Stuck on what to buy? Satisfy that craving for all things cultural
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Green Gift Guide: The DIY'er
When challenged to make enough gifts for everyone at the holidays, the DIY'er thrives. If you can't match the sentiment of a hand-knitted scarf or intricately embroidered blanket, help your hands-on friends finesse their craft with these ideas, from canni
