In her graduate thesis project at The Netherland’s Design Academy of Eindhoven, Wendy Legro asks “can design help us reconnect with our biorhythms?” In the modern world, we’ve lost the pleasure of watching things grow and change—and inside our homes, artificial light is always competing with natural light.
Legro’s ‘Morning Flower’ design aims to reintroduce the sun’s natural source of light back into our lives. The light is composed of a delicate structure that flowers, depending on lighting conditions. When it’s bright outside, the lamp shrinks up, allowing sunlight to stream past. When it grows dark, the lamp eventually blooms in a snowflake pattern, revealing the LED’s inside.
A pretty handy bookmarklet that turns webpages into wireframes.
a GOOD article by Dylan C. Lathrop
A preview clip from the documentary, Growing Cities, a film about two young men’s journey across America to learn about urban agriculture and how it is revitalizing cities one animal, vegetable, and chicken at a time.
Edible City explores issues of food justice, security, and sovereignty through a comprehensive view of urban farming in the Bay Area – a grassroots effort that sees people responding to climate change, rising food costs and gas prices, and increasing health concerns by strengthening connections to the food they eat and the communities they grow in.
“A kind of taste pack for oatmeal. This package contains the right amount of oatmeal with added sugar and salt. You break your BREAK FAST pack over a bowl, add water and cook in the microwave. Then you can tentatively serve with cold milk. The idea is to target a new audience that otherwise would not eat oatmeal, but also to those who are usually in a hurry in the morning and tend to skip today’s most important meal, breakfast. Break it fast and have a BREAK FAST!”
Designed by Niklas Hessman, Sweden
(Source: lovelypackage.com)
French graphic designer & visual artist Anne-Sophie Poirier, who’s working under the name Sasufi, has designed the fitout for the Slowpoke Espresso Café in Melbourne, Australia. The eyecatcher is a twelve metre-long wall made out of timber offcuts coming from local furniture makers. The budget for re-designing the bar was very small so Poirier used a lot of secondhand and recycled material. The tables for example are made of recycled timber floors and most decoration comes from various fleamarkets. The goal was to give the place a homely feel to go along with the quality organic food and coffee that’s being served.
(Source: huhmagazine.co.uk)
Painting Reality
500 liters of waterbased environmentally-friendly paint on asphalt spread by 2000 cars.
2010 Rosenthaler Platz, Berlin
