The design requires no filling material due to the structure of the felt material. However, collecting newspapers makes the news roll more comfortable and provides an incentive to reuse rather than recycle. The product is lightweight (without newspapers) and multi functional, with use as a mat, screen, stool and cushion, using 100% natural wool.
Designer: Andrew Millar
To teach humility towards the environment, the Lighthouse lamp doubles as an atrium nurturing a small plant. The humidity inside the Lighthouse is quite dense diffusing the light beautifully. However, touching it will clear the mirkiness to reveal your plant living in perfect isolation.
Designer: Lya Tkach
Why of why can’t something like this be on the market now? I’m so tired of hauling my dirty clothes to a laundry mat, paying a dollar per load, and then standing guard in case some impatient nunny decides to excavate, leaving my clothes a sopping mess on a table.
Designer: Reed Crawford
Caroline’s winning conceptual submission is a public art piece that encourages biophilia and, in effect, promotes energy saving technology while providing sunlight to sun-deprived underground subways. By using fiber optic technology and patented sunlight collection panels, she plans to introduce sunlight to one of the most frequently enclosed urban environments: The Subway.
Designer: Caroline Pham [ Via: TreeHugger ]
The vast majority of existing training shoes end up in landfill sites as they cannot be recycled due to the adhesives used in their construction. ‘Think’ is a modular trainer concept that uses mechanical locks instead of adhesives or cements. This means that each part of the trainer can be removed, recovered and recycled.
Designer: Ben Chappell
The filter scarf is a discreet yet a highly effective gasmask that ensures a good quality of breathing air, wherever you are. It has two functions – detect and protect. A small electronic sensor reacts to air pollutants and warns the wearer. The scarf itself is lined with a carbon filter that absorbs the hazardous substances in the air.
Designer: Carl Hagerling
Sunbrella is like a regular beach umbrella, except that it is a source of energy and also an outlet to power small appliances. Because of these alternate uses, the Sunbrella can be beneficial to multiple users. The 6 foot diameter solar panel that uses Photovoltaics can produce a peak output of 282 watts.
Designer: Greg Freer
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