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Post tags: Art, Design, eco design, eco-art, Fulbright Canada, Garth Britzman, green design, lincoln, Pop Culture, Recycled Materials, sustainable design, university of nebraska
Scottish designer Peter Ananin has created a way to bring a little more of the outside world into our everyday lives by creating personal miniature rural worlds dubbed MyBioPod. MyBioPod provides people with green fingers, a scientific streak or city dwellers with an innovative way to feel a little more connected to the natural world, as nature and technology are combined into a single device to study small ecosystems.
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Post tags: bio, Design, eco design, ecosystem study, Eden Project, environmental design, green design, mybiopod, Nature, peter ananin, Scotland, sustainable design, sustainable learning, Technology
Read the rest of The Beer Moth is a Sweet Room in a Refurbished Fire Truck in Scotland
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Post tags: adaptive reuse, Canopy & Stars, Design, eco design, eco-tourism, eco-travel, green design, Inshriach House, Recycled Materials, refurbished fire truck, sustainable design, The Beer Moth
Read the rest of Superstudio Designers Shine Bright at the Milan Furniture Fair
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Post tags: "green furniture", 2012 milan design week, 2012 Milan Furniture Fair, Design, Exhibition, Fair, Fuori Salone, Fuori Salone 2012, green lighting, ilide, italy, Milan Design Fair, Milan Design Week, Milan I Saloni, new designers, Superstudio, Superstudio Piu, sustainable furnishings
Read the rest of Prefab Mirror Mongayt Has a Pixelated Facade that Reflects Nature in Moscow
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Post tags: "energy efficiency", Berlaskoni, Daylighting, Design, eco design, green design, locally sourced materials, Mirror Mongayt, mirrors, Moscow, pixelated, prefab construction, Recycled Materials, russia, sustainable design
Would you like a ‘throne’ of your own, or perhaps a fluffy picnic space? Lichtbed is an experimental project by architecture practice 51n4e and textile designers Chevalier-Masson and Julie Vandenbroucke. The oversized daybed that explores social relations and the boundaries between openness and privacy allowing sitters to chose the size of their own personal space.
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If you are a scientist, designer, filmmaker, or any kind of environmentally-conscious creative person who is tired of zipped-up and dull sustainability science, then Earth 2 Hub might be the solution you’ve been looking for. A groundbreaking digital media platform conceived by some of the brightest, most forward-thinking people on the planet, Earth 2 Hub encourages the discussion and implementation of cutting-edge scientific and technological innovation by engaging with the global community through social media, cloud technologies, and smart technology. No idea is too far-reaching as long as it is grounded in the highest standards. The time to envision bold solutions to our environmental woes is now, and Earth 2 Hub is leading the way with thousands of fans around the world. Hit the jump to for a peek at the Earth 2.0 Initialization video to get a better sense of what these folks are working to achieve.
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Post tags: apps, Art, clean tech, Design, digital media, Earth 2 Hub, Earth 2.0, eco design, Film, future cities, green design, innovation, London, media platform, rio 20, social media, Sustainable 2050 Conference, sustainable design, Technology, UK, WWW
More than 300 million students across the globe sit in classrooms that weren’t constructed to withstand an earthquake, leaving them susceptible to serious injury and even death if the earth were to start shaking. Designed by Arthur Brutter and Ido Bruno for dated schools in earthquake-prone areas, the Earthquake-Proof Table takes an age-old safety drill and turns it up a few notches by transforming a simple school desk into a safe refuge that can take on a ton of falling bricks!
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![LATE Architects, Krakow, Poland, typology, design, green design, sustainable design, green renovation, eco-design, Kompany, paint, tape, minimalist design, _AFxTT[…]](http://inhabitat.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2012/04/AFxTT-LATE-Architecture-1-75x75.jpg "AFxTT by LATE Architects")
![LATE Architects, Krakow, Poland, typology, design, green design, sustainable design, green renovation, eco-design, Kompany, paint, tape, minimalist design, _AFxTT[…]](http://inhabitat.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2012/04/AFxTT-LATE-Architecture-2-75x75.jpg "AFxTT by LATE Architects")
![LATE Architects, Krakow, Poland, typology, design, green design, sustainable design, green renovation, eco-design, Kompany, paint, tape, minimalist design, _AFxTT[…]](http://inhabitat.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2012/04/AFxTT-LATE-Architecture-3-75x75.jpg "AFxTT by LATE Architects")
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Tom Dixon‘s new Fin Light is a beautiful, new collection of lamps that reveal the British designer’s admiration for designer-engineers like Buckminster Fuller. As the feature of his ‘Luminosity’ showcase at the MOST festival, happening at the upcoming Milan Design Week, the Fin Light collection is equal parts elegance and engineering.
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Read the rest of James Corner Field Operations Wins Competition To Redesign Chicago’s Navy Pier
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Ever dreamt of having your own backyard office shed where you could escape for the day? So have we. To help you with your home office fantasies, we’ve rounded up some of the best small house companies, ranging from modern to traditional, prefab to custom built
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Best Small Home Designers & Builders
Dzineblog put together a a fantastic Round-Up of User Interface Design Resources . (via @ loopdiloop )
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UI Design Resources
Fabulous Galapagos Art Space in DUMBO presents two great events for ideas and design. On 4/13, AIGA/NY presents Patrick Borelli’s one-man multimedia show “You Should Judge A Book By Its Cover”, in which he dissects thirty of the oddest book covers you’ve ever seen. Joining Borelli’s cover-shredding onstage will be McSweeneys writer and Moth Story Slam host Dan Kennedy, Cat News creator and comedienne Julie Klausner and book cover designer Evan Gaffney.
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I am delighted to be one of the speakers at the upcoming PSFK Conference New York , this coming friday, April 9 2010. PSFK will bring together a large crowd of likeminds to learn and share new ideas that will help us make tomorrow better
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PSFK Conference New York 2010
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