2009 Archive

  • Many hands make art work
    Design News • 6 Nov 09
    Twenty artists have collaborated to create a life-size painting of a Percheron to benefit the Cart Horse Protection Association. >
  • Index: to improve life
    Design News • 6 Nov 09
    Boasting the largest purse of any design competition INDEX: 2009 shared 500 000 euros between five category winners. >
  • Reflect your creativity
    Design News • 4 Nov 09
    Illustrator Joshua Davis has applied his algorithms to his new Reflect iPhone application. >
  • Family furniture
    Design News • 3 Nov 09
    Ilse Crawford launches her newest range, Seating for Eating. >
  • Respect cheap design
    Design News • 2 Nov 09
    Renowned Catalan designer Martí Guixé makes three new additions to his ongoing series of “statement chairs”. >
  • Extreme gardening
    Design News • 1 Nov 09
    The Sahara Forest Project proposes to reverse desertification and turn arid regions into resources of food, fresh water and clean energy. >
  • Cement garden
    Design News • 1 Nov 09
    CMG Landscape Architecture’s Crack Gardens transform existing concrete slabs through hostile takeover. >
  • Farm with a view
    Design News • 1 Nov 09
    Growing food inside apartments is a challenge, but within reach with Britta Riley and Rebecca Bray's Window Farms. >
  • Channel O lucky packet
    Design News • 1 Nov 09
    The new magazine Coco Joe has been conceived as a brand extension for Channel O by Peet Pienaar and design studio The President. >
  • Readymade oasis
    Design News • 1 Nov 09
    Evan Gant’s RainDrops system allows people to adapt standard plastic bottles to an existing gutter system to collect rainwater. >
  • Suburban spread
    Design News • 1 Nov 09
    Farmadelphia by the Front Studio, proposes to transform the urban environment by introducing bucolic farmlands into the city’s urban fabric. >
  • Flower power
    Design News • 1 Nov 09
    Comprising 15 solar panelled sunflowers, the Electric Garden in Austin, Texas, is literally what its name says. >
  • Food miles
    Design News • 1 Nov 09
    WHYBIN/TBWA Sydney has crafted 12 countries’ flags from food typical of the country. >
  • Molecular meat
    Design News • 1 Nov 09
    Cocoon by Rickard Hederstierna is a response to the world’s growing population and its desire to consume meat and fish. >
  • Powerplant tomatoes
    Design News • 1 Nov 09
    A collaboration between Great Northern Hydroponics and GE Energy has resulted in a massive greenhouse cogeneration plant. >
  • Communal pods
    Design News • 1 Nov 09
    The Eco-pod proposes to stimulate the economy and ecology of downtown Boston through the installation of a temporary vertical algae... >
  • Functional food
    Design News • 1 Nov 09
    Pharmland is a proposal by Nord Architects to redirect 20% of Denmark’s agricultural land to grow medicine instead of food. >
  • Victimless meat
    Design News • 1 Nov 09
    Marije Vogelzang’s Faked Meat started as a reaction to meat substitutes. >
  • Filterbrella by Andrew Leinonen.
    Singing in the rain
    Design News • 1 Nov 09
    The Filterbrella by Andrew Leinonen provides protection while collecting and filtering rainwater to make it safe to drink. >
  • Lawn attack
    Design News • 1 Nov 09
    The Edible Estates project proposes the replacement of the domestic front lawn with a highly productive edible landscape. >
  • Ornamental pastures
    Design News • 1 Nov 09
    Hafsteinn Júlíusson’s Growing Jewellery is a clash of jewellery and gardening, couture and organism. >
  • Mushrooms on the run
    Design News • 1 Nov 09
    Agata Jaworska’s In Transit proposes growing mushrooms in the packaging while they are being transported. >
  • Body pharming
    Design News • 1 Nov 09
    Michael Burton’s design projects predict a future scenario where people grow and produce clinical and pharmaceutical products on the body. >
  • Barrel o’ rain
    Design News • 1 Nov 09
    Designed to look like a giant water drop, Bas van der Veer’s A Drop of Water collects rainwater by filling a watering can and rain barrel. >

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