Tag: Flat Pack - Page 4
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Yves Behar's Fuseproject Creates Crystal Chandeliers With Just One Crystal
Images: fuseproject You sort of have to adore a person who thinks he can do any and everything. Yves Behar is that sort of fellow. Fuseproject, Behar's San Francisco-based design studio, has given birth to the Jawbone Bluetooth headset, the One Laptop
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Milan Furniture Fair 2010: The Green Preview (Slideshow)
Bored of your furniture? What if you could just sit in it to give it a fresh, new shape? That's the idea behind Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka's Memory chair, made of crumbled recycled
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Cardboard Furniture is Durable and Recyclable and Everywhere
Cardboard is popping up everywhere. A strong and durable material, it is made from recycled paperboard and is itself recyclable when you get bored. It is long lasting, can be assembled easily, comes in a flat-pack and some say is
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Recycled Juice Boxes Become Biomorphic Lamp
Images: Loxolop Inspired by origami and biomorphism, Dutch artist Ebére Groenouwe created the Loxolop hanging lamp. Made of waste paper from a juice-carton factory (which means it's readily recyclable), the Loxolop ships in a tidy little package, its two
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No Glues, No Screws: Ecolok Flatpak Furniture
Images: Ecolok Furnishings We have a thing for flatpak. Whether it's a house, a toy, or a piece of furniture, flatpak typically obfuscates any number of the more harmful processes of manufacturing, and also lends itself to modularity, making things
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World Record Set for (Paper) Plane Flight
It's a world flight record even though it only lasted 26.1 seconds. Not your usual record, because it's origami, and it was achieved by the president of the Japan Origami Plane Association. Takuo Toda just missed matching his
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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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Simple and funky cardboard bench by Proyecto Cartoon
Found at the latest edition of the Casa FOA interior design exhibition, these cool looking benches are made entirely from industrially discarded cardboard (left out for imperfections or errors at factories) and a small piece of
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Artecnica Brings Flatpack Design to Life, Including a Reusable Bag You Haven't Seen Yet
From canvas carryalls to candy-wrapper shoppers, when it comes to reusable bags, we're suffering from a massive case of seen-that-schlepped-that. Then Artecnica swooped in out of left field with its StretchBag, an inspired
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Just Roll it Up: The Curly Lamp from Fuz
(Image: Fuz) The intersection of beauty, functionality, and energy efficiency is what makes lamp design so fun. At TreeHugger we like us some lamps: eerie alien lamps, flat-pack lamps, lamps from reused materials, lamps that are their own packaging, ink
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IKEA Admits Sustainability a 'Never-Ending Job' (Part I)
The news: When IKEA launches its massive glossy 2010 catalog next week, an in-house ad spread nestled at the back also announces the company's latest effort at either massive PR or a new era in showcasing
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Instant Table, Just Add Cohda Legs!
Sometimes an idea is so simple that you can't understand how it wasn't invented before. Like these good looking table legs by Cohda design.
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MICROFACTORY Fabricates Downloadable Design On Your Desk
Image via DK Ahn Rather than ship an object to your door or local store, imagine downloading the underlying info, procuring the materials locally, and then letting a machine build it. Maybe even on your kitchen table. This technology is not ready to
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Packaging Design at Its Best (Slideshow)
As noted in the previous slideshow about packaging design at its worst, designing and implementing packaging can go horribly, horribly wrong. Thankfully, there's a greener side to the equation, where fewer, greener materials meet with clever design --
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16 Revolutionary Green Ideas From the Milan Furniture Fair (Slideshow)
The best thing about the world's biggest contemporary furniture fair, Salone Internazionale del Mobile, which wrapped up last week in Milan, is arguably not the fair itself, but SaloneSatellite, highlighting young talent, and all of
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10 of the Best Green Designs Launching at Milan's Mega Furniture Fair (slideshow)
It's that time of the year again: when the design movers and shakers pack their bags and head to the world's biggest contemporary furniture fair, Salone Internazionale del Mobile. Now in its 48th edition, the 2009 fair will run April 22-27 in Milan--and
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Open House: Small Trailer Fans Out To Make Big Spaces
So many great ideas for small space design come out of trailers and boats. Here is another: a trailer that folds out like a fan, a series of flatpack elements that turn a tiny trailer into a multiroom dwelling, where the walls can move according to the
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Waste Needs a Basket - So Chuck It
About a decade ago I received a Muji waste basket as a birthday gift from a shall-be-unnamed family relative. My first thought was, "So-and-so is giving me a trashcan as a gift? AND it's unassembled?" In typical Muji fashion, the
