Are Students from Your Community Participating in the Design Challenge?
by: Biomimicry 3.8, 2014-01-23 22:07:09 UTC

Last September we issued a challenge to students around the world: Help solve a local or global transportation challenge using biomimicry. Thus far, 135 teams from 67 schools in 20 countries around the world have registered. Is a school from your community represented in the Challenge? You can find out by clicking on the map below. Each marker represents a different school.

If there’s no pin on the map where you live, we encourage you to share information with colleagues, friends, or family who are university-level educators or students to inspire them to register for the competition. Here are some resources to help you spread the word:

• On Twitter or Facebook? Try posting this: Compete for cash prizes with uni students around globe: register for #Biomimicry Student Dsgn Challenge. http://bit.ly/11HJKRg #BSDC2014

• Want to post a flyer about the Design Challenge around your school? Download this one.

• Like to email the information? Try using this language as a guide:

Inspired by nature? The Biomimicry 3.8 Institute wants you to turn inspiration into action by registering for their 2013-2014 Biomimicry Student Design Challenge. Learn biomimicry and apply your new skills to solve a challenge both global and local in nature: transportation needs. The environmental, social, and economic impacts of transportation have increased along with growing mobility demands for people and freight. Can biomimicry help address the deeper needs around transportation? The Institute wants to find out! Register a team today to access biomimicry resources and help solve one of the world’s biggest challenges.
Participating teams have the chance to be featured in Treehugger, receive mentoring from biomimicry experts, and win cash prizes. Visit biomimicrydesignchallenge.com for details and to register.

The registration deadline for the Biomimicry Student Design Challenge is February 7, only weeks away.Please help play a part in introducing the next generation of innovators to biomimicry by spreading the word!

 

Better Lives: Ageism in Fashion
by: Centre for Sustainable Fashion, 2014-01-30 13:17:03 UTC

As part of LCF’s initiative to use the discipline of fashion to drive change, build a sustainable future and improve the way we live, the 2014 Better Lives Lecture series will focus on ‘Looking Ahead …isms in Fashion’. The first lecture in the series is Ageism in Fashion with a panel including Prof Paul Matts and Dr Ros Jennings. The event will be held at London College of Fashion, 20 John Princes Street, W1G 0BJ.

The Dapper Dustpan
by: Yanko Design, 2014-01-29 08:01:18 UTC

When you think of a dustpan and broom, chances are you imagine a flimsy, plastic, unsightly object that you hide as far back in the closet as possible! The Alfred, however, is one you can be proud of! No, it doesn’t light up… or cheer you on… in fact, there’s really no new functionality at all. But it is durable, made of quality material, and just plain nice to look at.

Designer: Tom Chludil

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(The Dapper Dustpan was originally posted on Yanko Design)

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Chairish Launches a New App That Makes Finding and Selling Pre-Loved Furniture Easier
by: Inhabitat , 2014-01-29 15:30:28 UTC

Last year we reported on the launch of Chairish, an awesome new website that connects designer furniture enthusiasts with one another to create a hub for shopping and selling exceptional pre-owned home furnishings. Now we’re happy to announce that Chairish has just released a brand new app for iPhone users that makes it even easier for design aficionados to buy, sell, and ogle all the fabulous, one-of-a-kind furnishings and decor for sale on their site!

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Gironde Extendible Table by Mediodesign
by: design milk, 2014-01-24 15:00:18 UTC

Barcelona-based designer and architect Juan Pablo Quintero designed a custom, extendable table for Mediodesign. Focusing on geometry and functionality, the Gironde Extendible Table is built much like a house would be, with a structural system that ensures the stability of the design.

The design is composed of four triangular pieces that are hidden below the central square tabletop that flip out for extra space. One of the doubled up legs swivels out to support the extended leaf.

The table is made from finished plywood birch that’s covered in Formica® with a heat-resistant ceramic tile inlaid in the center to place hot pots when it’s time to eat.

Photos by Xavier González.

A Three-Legged Chair That Neatly Folds Flat
by: design milk, 2014-01-24 19:00:19 UTC

With a few simple movements, Sedia3 (or Chair3 – sedia is Italian for chair), by DORODESIGN, transforms from a three-dimensional chair to something that is almost two-dimensional. The modern chair sits on three legs and requires no tools to flatten or build it.

Made of wood (except one metallic pivot pin), the space-saving chair’s seat surface is lifted from the rear and pushed towards the front to release the legs and the central crosspieces.

Once flat, the chair can even be hung on the wall for storage by the built-in hook that’s cut into the spine.

Pieke Bergmans' blown-plastic VAPOR lighting "grows like a plant or animal"
by: Dezeen, 2014-01-28 17:56:33 UTC

Dezeen and MINI World Tour: Amsterdam designer Pieke Bergmans explains that she used a process similar to glass blowing to create the plastic lighting she exhibited during Dutch Design Week 2013 in Eindhoven. (more...)

Famous modernist chair shapes merged into a bar stool by Eugeni Quitllet
by: Dezeen, 2014-01-29 16:05:30 UTC

Maison&Objet 2014: Catalan designer Eugeni Quitllet has taken the silhouettes of famous modernist chairs and amalgamated them into the back of this bar stool. (more...)

Sustainable Brands San Diego 2014
by: Sustainable Design News, 2014-01-14 20:36:15 UTC
The 2014 Sustainable Brands conference, with a theme of "Reimagine, Redesign, Regenerate," will be held on June 2-5 in San Diego, CA.

PepsiCo, Unilever Launch Sustainable Agricultural Tool
by: Environmental Leader, 2014-01-23 16:10:27 UTC
PepsiCo, Unilever, Heineken and other members of the Cool Farm Institute have launched an online tool to help farmers assess and improve the environmental and economic performance of their businesses. The carbon-management tool is free for individual farmers; use by supply chain businesses requires a use or membership fee. In addition to launching the new […]