Biodegradable Footwear
For those looking to put a little eco-friendliness in their step, the OneMoment shoe by Figtree Factory Studios offers comfort and modern style in this…
Sustainable Design
Pandora-ish
Imagine a waste bin (you heard me). Take that bin and fill it with compostable products like grass cuttings, tea bags, & cardboard (just do…
Home Farming Can Look So Trendy!
You can mistake Éva as a modern decorative piece for restaurants, but it’s a trendy, hi-tech composter. It blends in beautifully with any interior and…
Pedestal Lamp
L.OOD is a pedestal lamp, a concept based on creating open forms and functions from a single refined object. It’s an assemblage of recycled things like…
Very Green Oil
The very muck that invades our pond and swimming pool is a goldmine! Actually, make that an oil well. I’m talking about algae and the…
Gone With The Wind
Have you ever opened a window and said to yourself, “damn Gina, it’s windy.” Harness that energy with the AERO E. Energy is converted from…
American Classics Reimagined
In their vernacular forms the country cabin and beach house are most often envisioned as rough and woody as well as shingled and white-washed, respectively….
Analog Cooling of Interior Spaces
How would you like to be able to cool your house (assuming you live in a part of the world where it gets hot enough…
Olde New Bike
This is a bicycle project whose aim is to create a cycle with a retro style mixed with a slightly more contemporary cafe racer model….
Turnstile Power
We pass through rotating gates at many checkpoints like train stations and amusement parks and we never give it a thought but there is a…
Take Whats There and Make Energy
One of the greatest things you can do as an industrial designer with earth-saving aspirations is to find a source of free or nearly-free energy….
Spring + Gear + Motor = Energy
It’s completely brilliant! Can you take this idea apart? This is a portable spring driven power generator design concept by designer Satoshi Yanagisawa, one that…
A Coconut Home for the iPad
The coconut tree perhaps is the most giving tree in all of nature. What I mean is that every part of the tree is used…
Auto Freedom for Brazil and Beyond
By now, since I and we have mentioned it so often due to its massive spread of influence over the world of industrial design, we…
Water Weighs All
Instead of using all that precious and energy-wasting metal in the construction of a scale, why not use water? That’s what the designer of this…
The Water Vapor Project
This year’s IIDA has some pretty interesting entries. For example the Water Vapor Project is an attempt to hydrate the parched desert landscape of Africa….