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Winners Selected in LifeEdited Competition To Design New York Apartment
Can you crowdsource design? Can you run an international ideas competition online, with over 300 submissions, commenting, inviting change, watching schemes evolve, and then judge it? Evidently yes, because Graham Hill and the LifeEdited team at Jovoto
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LifeEdited Winners To Be Announced at Noon EST!
Throughout the past few months, the LifeEdited contest has inspired hundreds of designers, artists and other creative thinkers to imagine what it would take to make a 420sf (~39 m2) New York
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Floating Kitchen Might Feel At Home In A LifeEdited
Leslie at KBCulture likes the Harmonie from French kitchen manufacturer Arthur Bonnet; so do I. It would do well in a LifeEdited.
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Time To Vote For Your Favourite LifeEdited Project
I have been consistently blown away by the quality of the submissions for the LifeEdited project. It is now the review period where readers can vote for their favourite project. There is so much to chose from, even dpet's homage to Daniel Libeskind
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What Does It Take To Live in 300 Square Feet? It Takes A Town
Ben Brown of PlaceMakers has been talking about living in smaller spaces and cottage neighbourhoods for years, but recently got to practice what he preaches, living for three months in the original 308 square foot Katrina
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Gig is "Four-Track Furniture" For Small Spaces
I am really beginning to look forward to the Interior Design Show in Toronto in two weeks; all kinds of interesting stuff is coming in over the transom. Designer Davide Tonizzo shows his new Gig, transformers that he calls "four-track furniture." He
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LifeEdited: So Many Great Ideas, So Little Time Left
We're crowdsourcing design at the LifeEdited project, a contest to design some or all of Graham Hill's 420 square foot apartment in New York. As the clock runs out, (just a few days left to enter) I have to say that the ideas submitted so far are
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Transformer Furniture: The Amazing Oven Lounge
We keep looking for great ideas for Graham Hill's LifeEdited project, for different ways to live and work in small spaces. Andy's oven lounge might be the perfect thing; Graham doesn't cook a lot, so why take up so much space
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Crowdsourcing Creativity and Community at IDS2011
Crowdsourcing, or "tapping talent from the crowd" is a controversial subject in the design community. Some think it to be evil, a way of getting a lot of ideas for free. One critic ranted that
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Transformer Furniture Goes Mainstream in New York Times
A decade ago in Toronto, Julia West Home introduced a line of tables, beds and even spinning bookcases that served multiple functions and took up less space. I designed some of them (see them here), convinced that this was
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Camp In Your Kitchen With The Pila Kitchenset
When writing LifeEdited: What We Can Learn From Camping Equipment, I asked "Why do camping equipment designers make pots and pans that all stack together and take up the space of only the largest pots, while a regular pot
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Elegant Bike Storage Shelf From Knife & Saw
Images credit: Knife and Saw Designboom shows this bike shelf from Chris Brigham, a graphic designer gone 3D and now making furniture under the name Knife and Saw. . Living in San Francisco and visiting friends in New York, he "noticed that there is a
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How To Make Your Space Feel Larger: Glass Bathrooms
images credit aat+makoto yokomizo architects TreeHugger founder Graham Hill is trying to radically reduce his footprint and live happily with less space, less stuff and less waste on less money, but with more design. He calls it "LifeEdited." You can
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Pocket Shelter Built From Scrap For 72 Bucks
TreeHugger founder Graham Hill is trying to radically reduce his footprint and live happily with less space, less stuff and less waste on less money, but with more design. He calls it "LifeEdited." You can help: Enter the
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How Much Insulation Can You Put Into An Old Building?
Image credit Lloyd Alter, after John Straube TreeHugger founder Graham Hill is trying to radically reduce his footprint and live happily with less space, less stuff and less waste on less money, but with more design. He calls it "LifeEdited." You can
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Small New York Apartment to Receive Radical Revamp with LifeEdited Competition (Slideshow)
TreeHugger founder Graham Hill is trying to radically reduce his footprint and live happily with less space, less stuff and less waste on less money, but with more design. He calls it "LifeEdited." You can help:
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And One Of The Biggest Influences On A Generation Of Designers is: TRON
After they graciously promoted LifeEdited, we learned from DesignSpotter that the Disney movie TRON "influenced whole generations of later-on designers, architects, technicians and developers worldwide." So they are having their own competition.
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Tiny Transformer Apartment Has Moving Walls, Dropping Beds and More
TreeHugger founder Graham Hill is trying to radically reduce his footprint and live happily with less space, less stuff and less waste on less money, but with more design. He calls it "LifeEdited." You can help: Enter the design competition and win up
