Read the rest of CZWG Incorporates Rain Harvesting Technology into Maggie’s Centre in Nottingham

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Mini Moderns is known for their textiles and wallpaper, and they just added to their offerings by launching a line of environmentally responsible paint made from left-over unwanted paint. The range was developed in partnership with Newlife Paints, an award-winning eco paint manufacturer that specializes in reprocessing waste water-based paint to create premium grade emulsion paint. The product is rescued and then carefully mixed into a range of colors perfectly compliment Mini Moderns‘s existing products.

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Read the rest of Decorex Paints the Town Green with Showcase of Eco-Furnishings at London Design Festival

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The Building Baskets exhibition during the London Design Festival showcased a two-year design collaboration between the Design and Business Schools at Kingston University and the Lupane Women’s Center – a basket weaving enterprise that uses craft to empower women. The students worked with 26 highly skilled craftswomen, who used the students’ projects as a starting point and were then given time and space in a workshop environment to explore their own ideas, creativity and identity. The resulting prototypes make up the exhibition.

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The One Piece of Lamp, by Korean designer Kiseung Lee of Studio Inbetween, was one of the outstanding eco-designs showcased at this year’s 100% Design International Pavilion. It is a multi-purpose interior lamp made from a single slice of aviation plywood panel (aka PVC, PET or carbon paper). Here the material is cut in such a way that makes it extendable and flexible. It is created without waste, and it is incredibly lightweight and can be flat-packed for low-emission transportation. Studio Inbetween is a design studio founded in 2010 by Kiseung Lee, which is currently operating in Helsinki, Finland. The agency aims to “discover new possibilities from geometric features with different perspectives and a wide spectrum of methods.”

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Folkform has created a colorful line of limited edition cabinets that combine Masonite produced in 1929 (when hardboard was first produced on a large scale) with the final few sheets produced by Sweden’s last Masonite manufacturer in 2011 (before the machines were shipped off to Thailand). Dubbed Masonite:Memoriam, the collection designed exclusively for Swedish brand Svenskt Tenn captures both the newness and the oldness of this material.

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Read the rest of Colorful Shipping Container Restaurants Pop Up in Southbank during the London Design Festival

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Jerszy Seymour‘s ‘Amateur Masters’ colorful chairs are made from polycaprolactone wax – a strong and 100% biodegradable material. They are part of the NgispeN collection, which was developed under the art direction of Richard Hutten. All the designs were inspired by the idea of ‘playing with tradition.’

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The idea for the Kurk Lamp was conceived when designer Craig Foster started taking other desk lights apart. He discovered a huge amount of unnecessary parts, fixtures and glue being used, and was surprised to find that the average lamp consisted of over 30 parts! What devised as an alternative was a simple flat-pack design that employs cork to create a cool new eco-lighting solution with a unique aesthetic. Speaking about the lamp, Foster said, “The aim of Kurk was to use the minimum amount of parts, without compromising on the personality and character of the product.”

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Cashmere brand Oyuna worked with designer Peter Marigold to create an interpretation of the traditional Mongolian ger tent-house (or yurt) in an installation for the new exhibition space located at 4 Cromwell Place. The construction, fitted within a grand, double-fronted house opposite the V&A Museum, was part of renowned curator Jane Withers’ show for London’s Design Festival.

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Read the rest of 100% Design’s International Pavilion Showcases Eco Designs from Around the World at the London Design Festival

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Read the rest of SuperBrands Showcases Elegant Eco-Design at London Design Festival

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Read the rest of Victoria & Albert Museum Lights Up With Sustainable Design During the London Design Festival

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No matter how much we build, plants always seems to find a way to sprout up through the cracks of human civilization. Inspired by the constrast between the natural world and human culture, Riccardo Belli, a student at the Academy of Fine Arts & Design at Maastricht, created Grow, a unique ceramic tile that includes a suitable habitat for living plants, and that encourages living things to thrive within the built environment.

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Denis Drouet’s colorful ‘Order in Chaos’ table aims to encourage play between children and adults. Children can hide under the table (as they love to do) and pull the strings, which creates a pattern on the table’s surface above. Drouet showcased his project at the Milan Furniture Fair as part of HDK‘s Play in Progress exhibition, which was based on the idea that play is a fundamental human activity that is vital to creativity.

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Alternative Playground may simply look like colorful and cushy blobs piled up in a corner, but this new project by Griet Boucique explores the potential of the trash dump as a play environment. Considering material usage, its impact on the earth, and how different textiles can affect the way a child engages in play, Alternative Landscapes asks us to re-consider what makes a playground enjoyable and what does not.

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Last week Pinwu became the first Chinese design team to win a Salone Satellite Design Report Award. Zhang Lei, Christoph John and Jovana Bogdanovic’s winning collection is made from natural and traditional materials such as sustainable bamboo paper, interpreted with a modern aesthetic.

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Cardboard becomes a sleek and modern material choice with NBT Studio‘s AmbiHive, an ambient wall light and high-tech speaker all-in-one. Made from sustainable Inverted Corrugated Board (ICB), the AmbiHive uses premium vibrating sound technology attached to the underside of the “acoustically vibrating” cardboard. Low-energy LEDs light up in synch with the sounds for an ambient and dynamic effect. The design is also completely customizable online.

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Read the rest of NBT Studio’s Ambihive is a LED Lamp and Sound System Packed Into a Single Cardboard Wall Fixture

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Read the rest of Green Design Takes Center Stage at Ventura Lambrate in Milan

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Read the rest of RCA Students Look Towards Sustainability to Design a Green ‘Paradise’ at the Milan Furniture Fair

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