Australian student designer Robert Dumaresq recently took Gold at the Australian International Design Awards, Dyson Student Category for his 'Switch Commuter Bike'.
Number of comments: 1 Duracell has hatched an interesting campaign in New York's Times Square which offers a chance to participate in some crowd-sourced power generation.
Dubai's Vertical Village is an extravagant work of sustainable design, using solar energy to power a combination of residential, hotel and entertainment spaces.
Number of comments: 3 Using only discarded materials found within a one block radius of their office, Antoine Morris and David Long built "The Mobile Office" - a self contained work/live environment.
Actions Speak Loudest: Keeping Our Promise for a Better World, a new book by Robert McKinnon inspires us to keep a generational promise to leave the world a better place than we inherited.
Number of comments: 1 Refinity dresses consist of interlocking parts which can be added or taken away from a garment, allowing users to alter it's design on demand.
Number of comments: 1 Based on a foundation of fresh produce, international culinary techniques and solid nutritional value, Food Secret is trying to position itself as London’s health conscious take-away of choice.
Number of comments: 1 Similar to Adrian Kondratowicz'S InDisposed, Greenz.jp points us to another urban beautification project using garbage bags as the medium.
How does one uncover a simple insight in a consumer and business world of complexity? A recently published yellow paper for Account Planner and Brand and Marketing professionals at large offers some inspiring examples.
In partnership with Nissan, PSFK held an event on October 20 2009 to discuss the future of Pure Living in Tokyo. Piers Fawkes, founder of PSFK, moderated a conversation with a panel of Japan-based experts and covered topics that included sustainability, design, urban planning, technology and zero-emission mobility.
Number of comments: 1 In partnership with Nissan, PSFK held an event on October 20 2009 to discuss the future of Pure Living in Tokyo. Piers Fawkes, founder of PSFK, moderated a conversation with an international panel of experts and covered topics that included sustainability, design, urban planning, technology and zero-emission mobility.
Number of comments: 1 We will be publishing video from the Good Ideas Salon and also one-one-one interviews with the panelists throughout next week. In the meantime, here's a selection of the images from the first talk by Marc Alt, Mark Dytham and Peter Rojas; the second talk with Rie Azuma, Danny Choo and [...]
Number of comments: 2 Volkswagen believes that injecting a healthy dose of fun into the often mundane tasks in our daily lives, such as choosing the stairs or remembering to recycle, is the best method for positive influencing our behaviors.
Number of comments: 1 Swiss scientific illustrator Cornelia Hesse-Honegger travels to post and near-nuclear sites like Chernobyl, documenting the bizarre 'morphologically disturbed' insects that have survived the fallout.
Number of comments: 1 Czech firm A1 Architects recently explored the small living paradigm at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague last month, creating a whimsical exhibition called "The Small House."
Number of comments: 1 Solar Roadways is a series of structurally-engineered solar panels that can be driven on, replacing all current asphalt roads, including driveways and parking lots. The panels would collect and store solar energy to be used for our homes and businesses.
Number of comments: 8 I recently presented at the Future Trends conference in Miami. My presentation was called 'Good Ideas in 2010' and it is the first part of a project to deliver a book later this month with the same title.
The Energy Belt designed by Massimo Iosa Ghini is a solar powered monorail proposed as a sustainable transportation solution, connecting the Italian city of Bologna with the city's international airport.
Number of comments: 1 Each year during Tokyo Design Week, DesignTide Tokyo features top design innovations from a variety of fields. With today marking the end of the five-day event, we've highlighted three projects below that we find particularly inspirational.
Number of comments: 1 William Stranger's "Second Life" uses reclaimed wood from a local LA bowling alley to create a number of different works including a coffee table, a bench and a diptych.
Next week, PSFK will be hosting Good Ideas Salon, Brooklyn. We'll be enjoying local fare, and featuring a panel of guest speakers discussing small batch culture and local entrepreneurship.
Number of comments: 1 The Felt Wine Rack is a perfect example of the return simple materials as designers and consumers alike warm to the aesthetic, environmental and economic benefits of products made from natural elements.
To offset the disruptive irrigation effects brought on by global warming, the small village of Stakmo, India has been developing a method for creating their own artificial glaciers.
Number of comments: 1 Korean designer Yong-jin Kim merges the power socket with a traditional switch, a solution that replaces the act of removing a plug with a simple twist designed to cut off the flow of electricity.
