Tag: Flat Pack - Page 3
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10 Chic Ways to Flat-Pack Your Holiday with Christmas Trees, Ornaments, and More
The carbon footprint of the holidays adds up fast -- presents, food, travel -- to make one scary number. But these chic, flat-pack alternatives to traditional holiday decorations -- including design-savvy original trees and gorgeous wreaths and ornaments
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Eco Reminders; Wall Stickers with a Poetic Message Help You Get Rid of Bad Habits (Photos)
Stickers can be fun, but how eco-friendly is this new craze for decorating walls? We have found two brands that claim their vinyls to be eco-chic, and some even come with decorative eco-reminders; very clever! Hu2 in the UK has just
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Posh New Shop In Mexico City Features Clever Sustainable Design
Open only a few days ago, Pirwi is a new store in Mexico City that features work by a group of 12 Mexican designers led by Emiliano Godoy (long-time feature at TreeHugger) and Alejandro Castro.
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Less is More: How a few sticks create elegant coat racks (Photos)
Inspired by Japanese Kimonos, the coat racks by the German company Noi are sculpture-like structures made from minimum amount of materials. The different wooden objects are all sticks; no need for screws, glue or other fasteners to hold them up. They
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Valencia Design Week 2010: NUDE, Young Designers Show They Care (Photos)
We visited Nude at Habitat Valencia (part of Valencia Design Week) and found some refreshing new ideas that are also a little less harmful to the environment. These are the three young
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Valencia Design Week 2010: The Three Little Pigs, a Cardboard Fable (Photos)
Here's a fun installation by Spanish design studio Sanserif Creatius, called The Three Little Pigs. It is a fable about the value of the materials with which we design. Exposed in the
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Neat Wood Mat Folds Into A Stool, Disappears In The Floor When Done
Another product from Colombian studio DosUno Design (whose Rubix transformer furniture set we reviewed yesterday), Deckstool is a simple wood mat that folds into a stool. Apart from being perfect for small spaces,
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London Design Festival 2010: Buzzispace, Cosy Recycled Space Dividers for Home and Office
As people's ways of working change, so do the places we work at. Teleworking, more collaborative work, easier communication and increased flexibility are demanding a change in the furniture of our workspaces and offices. But
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London Design Festival: Chairs are Us
There is something so elemental and fascinating about chairs. Travelling around the London Design Festival, one sees the endless interest that they hold for new designers.
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London Design Festival 2010: Julika Welge's Growing & Repairable Felt Carpet
Here is an interesting idea for a rug made of pieces of felt. We stumbled upon Julika Welge's Growing Carpet at this year's Designersblock at the London Design Festival, where the bright colours and the rich texture first
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You Can Sit 12 Different Ways On The Loop Transformer Chair
Imagine what Mel Brooks could do with this; instead of The Twelve Chairs, he just gets one transformer chair that can work twelve different ways. DesignBoom shows Boaz Mendel's Loop Chair can be reassembled as a bar stool, a
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Flatpack Never Looked Better Than Joe Doucet's Screwtop Table
Louis Sullivan said "Form Follows Function" and designer Joe Doucet listened. He has designed a flatpack table that proudly shows how it is put together. Core77 writes that it "wears its joinery method on its sleeve, so to speak."
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Zaishu Stool: Eco-Friendly Flat-Pack Furniture As Social Art Project
Designed with economy of materials, transportation and assemblage in mind, we're big fans of flat-pack furniture that's done well, especially when it's got a bit of pizzazz to it. The Zaishu Stool by Australian design duo
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My Space: Popup Room for Kids to Play With Their Friendsters
Kids get to have all the fun. Designer Liya Mairson has designed My Space "specifically for small urban apartments which lack the space for a play room....in its closed mode [it] takes minimal space and can be stored behind a door or under a single
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IKEA Kitchen Of The Future Looks Pretty Much Like The Present
They just don't do kitchens of the future like they used to. IKEA in the UK commissioned a study by The Future Laboratory, who claim "is recognised internationally for its innovative approach to trend forecasting, consumer insight and brand strategy."
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A Modular, Expandable Compost Bin That Can Grow Plants and Store Tools, Too
Domestic compost bins come in many shapes and sizes, for indoor and outdoor use, tumbling or not, to help you turn organic waste into delicious hummus for garden and pot plants. However, if until now you haven't come across your desired shape or size,
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Malafor: Design More With Less
These Polish designer, who we discovered at this year's Milan furniture fair, and who's colourful tree trunk stools have been featured previously, know how to create more with less. Dematerialisation is one way of designing eco-friendlier objects- it
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Flatpack Smackdown: KitKat Vs. D. E. Sellers
Fast Company shows us an advertising campaign from New Zealand where Kit Kat asks: "In the Kiwi summer of 2010, large crowds gathered at outdoor events and concerts. But how could we capture the imagination of this captive audience,
