Articles

  • 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. >
  • Amusing ourselves to death
    Lookbook • 3 Nov 09
    Stuart McMillen presents a cartoon visualisation of two of the best-known futurist doctrines. >
  • Picture 13
    Stillife
    Lookbook • 3 Nov 09
    Photographer Ross Garrett and stylist Caroline Olavarrieta evoke an austere vision of the future pastoral. >
  • Family furniture
    Design News • 3 Nov 09
    Ilse Crawford launches her newest range, Seating for Eating. >
  • Stillife
    Stillife
    Lookbook • 2 Nov 09
    Photographer Ross Garrett and stylist Caroline Olavarrieta evoke an austere vision of the future pastoral. >
  • Tribal pride
    Lookbook • 2 Nov 09
    Photographer Romi Stern and stylist Kim Warrington create new age tribes on a progressive, urban vision of Africa. >
  • 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. >
  • SMS with fish
    Design News • 1 Nov 09
    Amphibious Architecture is a visual interface that offers a looking glass into the aquatic ecosystem through SMSes. >
  • Earthship
    Design News • 1 Nov 09
    The Science Barge is a prototype sustainable urban farm and environmental education centre afloat the Hudson River in New York. >
  • Robotic aquaculture
    Design News • 1 Nov 09
    The self-sustaining and untethered Oceansphere is powered by a patent-pending hybrid ocean thermal energy conversion system. >
  • 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. >
  • Growth and death
    Design News • 1 Nov 09
    Artist Philip Ross’s work explores humanity’s relationship with plants. >
  • Powerplant tomatoes
    Design News • 1 Nov 09
    A collaboration between Great Northern Hydroponics and GE Energy has resulted in a massive greenhouse cogeneration plant. >
  • Social farmwork
    Design News • 1 Nov 09
    Hyperlocavore.com is a yardsharing social networking site launched by Liz McLellan. >
  • 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. >
  • 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. >
  • Pocketful of posies
    Design News • 1 Nov 09
    Woolly Pockets are soft-sided nests for growing plants. >
  • Petri dish flesh
    Design News • 1 Nov 09
    The Tissue Culture and Art Project by Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr explores the use of tissue technologies as a medium for artistic expression. >
  • 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. >
  • Leapfrog rising sea levels
    Design News • 1 Nov 09
    Lilypad by architect Vincent Callebaut is a floating ecopolis for climate refugees in 2100. >
  • Farm footprint
    Design News • 1 Nov 09
    The Crowd Farm draws energy through a flooring system that responds to human footsteps. >
  • Grown tables
    Design News • 1 Nov 09
    A tree is a product of its specific time and place. >
  • Hard stomach
    Design News • 1 Nov 09
    Julia Lohmann’s work explores the threshold between animal and animal material, probing society’s attitude towards animals. >
  • Food miles
    Design News • 1 Nov 09
    WHYBIN/TBWA Sydney has crafted 12 countries’ flags from food typical of the country. >
  • 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. >

Pages