Fruit-Wall: A Smart Way to Store Your Fruits & Veggies
by: design milk, 2013-09-18 16:00:26 UTC
Traditionally fruit gets stored in a bowl leaving them to get bruised and moldy as you forget about them over time. Now there’s Fruit-Wall, a minimal wall shelf that takes your fruit from the bowl and displays and stores it neatly on the wall. The Fruit-Wall gives you unlimited options and space to lay everything out so not only can your fruit breathe, it can add a beautiful bit of natural color to your kitchen.
The simple shelves give you and your family easy access to healthy fruits and veggies because they’re at eye level and easy to grab. It also makes it easy to see at a glance what you’re out of and might need to stock up on.
As much as I love how handy and functional it is, I must admit I really love the ways you can display your food having all the vibrant colors arranged neatly. It’s like a constantly changing art piece for your kitchen!
Fruit-Wall is currently seeking funds on Kickstarter so check it out!
GREEN ZERO by Studio di Architettura Daniele Menichini
by: design milk, 2013-09-19 17:00:51 UTC
GREEN ZERO by Studio di Architettura Daniele Menichini is a new interpretation of the modular housing suite that can be placed just about anywhere: from the woods to the beach to your own backyard. It’s small, a private retreat that acts as a sanctuary from the everyday for you or for guests that goes beyond the backyard shed: this one has a deck/patio area and a bathroom. Essentially, it’s a modular hotel room.
The prefab exterior is made of wood and features a natural stone foundation, rainwater management system and drainage system that integrates into the aesthetics.
Inside, there’s more than enough room for two. A funky tree-inspired mural acts as a focal point, but can’t compete with that view as you’re laying in bed.
I think my favorite part of this project is the bathroom, with its oversized patterned tiles printed with photography. It just seems like a calm, relaxing space. I could totally vacation here. How long before we see hotels popping up that consist of units such as these?
This particular unit is located in Treviso, Italy.
One Beacon Court by Tara Benet
by: design milk, 2013-09-20 17:00:28 UTC
Located in the One Beacon Court building inside the Bloomsberg Towers sits this modern condo designed by painter and interior designer Tara Benet. With sweeping New York City views framed by large windows, the mostly white interior is flooded with light giving a wide open and airy feel. Benet worked with art advisor Kati Lovaas to fill the space with emerging art that pops against the white walls.
Pairing a calacatta marble dining table with leather chairs from Poliform on top of a neutral rug from ABC Carpet & Home creates a neutral environment for the artwork that’s featured in the dining room. The large green “X” is from Philippe Decrauzat and the iron sculpture that hangs is by Valentin Carron, both of which add visual interest into the space.
The white sofa is accented with dark gray and black pillows providing a nice contrast. The dark wood floors also set the tone for the entire apartment making white the perfect choice for the walls and ceilings.
The massive modular book shelf, also from Poliform, features gray cubbies helping to break up the white.
The living room is complete with the placement of an Arco lamp from Flos.
This painting! The color! I can’t get enough of the fluorescent pink in this painting by Gardar Eide Einarsson that’s paired with a white marble credenza from Cassina.
In the kitchen, a Knoll Saarinen dining table is partnered with Cassina Philippe Starck 245 Caprice chairs.
Up close you see the chairs are upholstered, adding more texture to the room.
Photos by Marili Forastieri.
Clever refrigerator uses waste heat, clay to preserve veggies (Video)
by: TreeHugger Design, 2013-09-17 11:00:00 UTC
Through the process of evaporation, this energy-efficient design combines modern technology with the use of clay to preserve food.
Ocean-inspired lamps made with seaweed (Video)
by: TreeHugger Design, 2013-09-18 11:00:00 UTC
It's not just for eating: check out these lovely lamps created with seaweed.
Volvo’s Scandinavian Design-Inspired Concept Coupe
by: design milk, 2013-09-12 15:00:19 UTC
We all know that Volvo makes some of the safest cars around, but just one glimpse of their new concept car shows us that they’re not a one trick pony. Simply describing this new design as bold is definitely an understatement; it’s more of an indicator of their new direction. Hold on though, because this is just the first of three new concept cars that Volvo has been cooking up.
Thomas Ingenlath, Volvo’s Senior Vice President of Design with the new Concept Coupe
Volvo’s design team took iconic elements from the brand’s 1960’s era cars and fused them with contemporary Scandinavian influences. They kept a clean, clutter-free aesthetic that exudes a confident and strong personality. “Think about the powerful calmness of a lion. He doesn’t have to prowl to radiate respect. Even lying down he shows very clearly what he is capable of,” says Thomas Ingenlath, Senior Vice President of Design at Volvo.
Volvo’s modern interpretation of the floating grill gives nod to the classic Volvo P1800 car.
The interior features a leather instrument panel, hand-carved inlays made of naturally-aged wood, woven carpets by Kasthall, and a gear-leaver made with handcrafted Swedish crystal, a beautiful example of modern Scandinavian design.
On top of all that, Volvo’s Concept Coupe has 2-liter petrol engine that not only has 400 horsepower (with a supercharger), but also pays conscious attention to the environment, as it’s a plug-in hybrid! Volvo makes no compromises. You can have it all.
Eco-Friendly Student Flat by Tengbom Architects
by: design milk, 2013-09-12 17:00:06 UTC
Chances are you’ve experienced dorm life or student housing to some degree and know that it’s sometimes less than desirable. Swedish architecture firm Tengbom Architects aims to change all that with a really cool idea for student housing in the form of a smart student flat. [Remember when we featured another, slightly larger student option in Sweden?] The student flat is not only affordable and environmentally friendly, the design and material choices are incredibly smart. Each individual unit measure 10 square meters (approx. 108 square feet) and is built from cross-laminated wood due to its carbon positive qualities.
In 2014, 22 of these units will be built for students at the University of Lund in Sweden, helping to provide more affordable housing to students. Previous space requirements were 25 square meters but through legal consent, they were able to reduce that to 10 square meters, making the need for truly innovative thinking absolutely imperative.
The compact flat offers a sleeping loft, kitchen, bathroom, and a small garden with a patio. It also looks like there’s a desk area for studying. I love how they used the cross laminated wood throughout but with pops of lime green to balance it out. By using this material, they are able to get the rent reduced by 50%!
I also love all of the curves used instead of right angles.
Despite the small space, they were able to pack the place with plenty of storage options.
This particular flat will be on display until the 8th of December at Virserum Art Museum in Småland, Sweden. The project was done in collaboration with wood manufacturer Martinsons and real estate company AF Bostäder.
Location: Virserums Konsthall Kyrkogatan 34, 570 80 Virserum
Architect: Linda Camara & Pontus Åqvist, Tengbom
Assistant Architect: Lina Rengstedt, Olof Nordenson, Magnus Juhlin
Photos: Bertil Hertzberg
Ripple table by Benjamin Hubert
by: Dezeen, 2013-09-16 12:59:23 UTC
London Design Festival 2013: London designer Benjamin Hubert claims to have created the world's lightest timber table and is showing it off at the Aram Gallery in London this week (+ movie). (more...)
Porsche 918 Spyder plug-in hybrid drive debuts in Frankfurt
by: Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine, 2013-09-11 04:13:39 UTC
Porsche has debuted the long-awaited production model of its
918 Spyder at the 2013 Frankfurt Motor Show (IAA). Billed as the "genetic blueprint for the Porsche sports car of the future," the plug-in hybrid super sports car is designed to strike a balance between performance and efficiency, boasting acceleration of 0 to 100 km/h (0 to 62 mph) in 2.8 seconds and a top speed of 211 mph despite miserly fuel consumption estimated at 3 liters per 100 km (0.8 gallons per 62 miles). ..
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Future Fabrics Expo by The Sustainable Angle
by: Centre for Sustainable Fashion, 2013-09-10 11:07:34 UTC
Future Fabrics Expo 22 – 24 September 2013 www.thesustainableangle.org
For 5 years now the Centre for Sustainable Fashion has approached sustainability from an explorative and collaborative platform, choosing to look at the fashion industry from a multi layered and wide angled perspective. This means examining farther than just our visible and physical decisions (be that use of energy or materials choice for example), and looking in to where our creative ideas and decisions begin to develop, and the reasons behind them, whether we are designing a garment or choosing what we buy and wear. Much of the centre’s work explores humanity and our connections with each other and with nature, and an important part of this is how we choose to use the resources nature has given us.
An area of growing discussion and contention over the past few years has been about the fashion industry’s use of materials, and harmful production processes we have been subjecting our environment to. Although it is by no means enough to simply replace the materials you use, it is still important to consider that this choice is one of many along the supply chain that can have a negative or positive physical impact on our environment, and so is an opportunity for worthwhile exploration as part of a wider decision making process.
That’s where the Future Fabrics Expo by The Sustainable Angle comes in. Since its inception in 2010, the Centre for Sustainable Fashion has supported the not for profit organization in the task of exploring, researching, challenging, examining and constantly assessing alternatives to the overly dominant cotton and polyester fibres that are on the market today. By individually assessing globally sourced fabrics against the environmental criteria that were developed together with CSF, The Sustainable Angle has been able to amass a diverse collection of around 1,000 commercially available, high quality and beautiful fabrics with a reduced environmental impact, sourced from small scale producers, large scale global companies, and artisans around the world.
These fabrics are showcased at the annual Future Fabrics Expo, to enable designers and buyers to physically experience and learn about diverse fabrics that are available on the market, and what they have the option to be asking for. These fabrics range from organic natural fibres, to recycled innovative performance fabrics and regenerated cellulosics, suitable for a wide range of applications, and all of them are individually selected for both their sustainability credentials and their physical qualities.
There have been longstanding misconceptions about the realities of the textiles industry, and sustainable materials in particular, that we at The Sustainable Angle hope our work, and the Future Fabrics Expo especially, will help eradicate. Centre for Sustainable Fashion has been challenging conventional aesthetics for the past 5 years, and The Sustainable Angle has set out to challenge people’s perceptions of the stuff things are made of.
Fabrics are just one part in the journey towards a more responsible way of producing clothes, but by selecting a sustainable fabric that fits well into the overall design concept, which is more responsible, designer-led and takes the end of life of the garment into account at the outset of the design process, we can begin to see how the pieces of the puzzle fit together, and how each element of the supply chain can be adapted and improved.
The 3rd Future Fabrics Expo will take place on 22nd – 24th September 2013 at London Olympia as part of Fashion SVP. It is open to buyers, designers, leaders, learners and decision makers who wish to explore some of the latest innovations in the textiles industry.
Find out more and register to attend here.
Charlotte Turner, The Sustainable Angle and Centre for Sustainable Fashion
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