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Cardboard DIY

Posted on September 17, 2009 | Leave a comment

Just when we thought Ikea had pretty much perfected the art of the stylish economy flat pack, along come a few sheets of cardboard and blow them out of the water.

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Vulcano® microwave cardboard is a very light material, easy to be transported and glued, and it’s got a certain chic appeal to it as well. It can be printed, decorated and have things pinned to it, and you won’t break your back moving it around.

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What’s more, it’s environmentally friendly, so you’ll be doing your bit for the planet at the same time. Pretty perfect all round then.

(source: MobiliCartone at notcot.com)

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Supercar goes electric

Posted on September 17, 2009 | Leave a comment

We think this just could be the start of something, and about time too. Electric cars have always been seen as weak, ugly, slow and generally a little unattractive, but Audi looks like it might just be providing the change. Audi’s R8 has always been a gas-guzzling, smog emitting monster, but it is undergoing radical conversion, to become the new Audi e-Tron.

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The Audi e-Tron has the shell of an R8, but is an all-electric, green conscious machine, with not a hint of carbon emissions in sight. And it’s a little bit pretty, too. Could this be a real electric supercar range?

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It’s to be revealed at he Frankfurt Motor Show, where we’ll all see what it can do. If its performance matches its looks, then this will be something to talk about.

(source: The Coolist)

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Taxius Animalus

Posted on September 15, 2009 | Leave a comment

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This is not a UFO is it in fact a taxi, and the one oddest examples of which we have ever seen. Called the “Taxius Animalus” is an all-electric taxi with a six-wheel track designed to navigate off road terrain. Would have been perfect for Bestival, especially with it’s UFO theme this year.

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As Tree Hugger pointed out (source) it looks like a “cross between a tank and a rickshaw” – strange but brilliant. Can wait to see what the final vehicle design looks like after this compelling first stage sketches.

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Air Miles Plates

Posted on September 15, 2009 | Leave a comment

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These stylish air miles plates are part of the vibe over at the Go Slow restaurant in New York. Really cleverly they make it impossible to enjoy your meal without thinking about the issues around food air miles. If that is a good thing I or not I am sure is down to personal preference – but either way it is a super piece of design.

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The “Go Slow Café” offers a different kind of “slow food,” in which elderly people of New York (volunteers!) prepare and serve food slowly, with attention and care. Its aim is to accentuate ordinary aspects of dining and eating for “a renewed appreciation of details and processes.”

Read more on this over at Eat Me Daily (source).

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Donor Credit Card

Posted on September 14, 2009 | Leave a comment

You’ll also find this image over in our think tank section but it is so good we just had to share it here too!

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Backpack Advertising

Posted on September 10, 2009 | Leave a comment

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This is a really clever use of unusual advertising space – the back of children’s backpacks. It is part of a campaign which aims to raise awareness about preventable injuries and to challenge the belief that most people hold that serious injuries only happen to other people (source / read more).

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Electric Car

Posted on September 10, 2009 | Leave a comment

Surreal video from They Might Be Giants – it is most certainly a grower:

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Vintage advertising

Posted on September 4, 2009 | Leave a comment

It’s Friday so what better excuse to post a trio of some seriously 1980′s advertising, some of which we find strangely scary:

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Rubbish islands

Posted on September 3, 2009 | Leave a comment

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We wish this was a myth but sadly it’s existence has been confirmed as true:

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, also described as the Eastern Garbage Patch or the Pacific Trash Vortex, is a collection of marine debris floating in the central North Pacific Ocean. It’s massive – like twice the size of Texas – and really sad.

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Read more about what this mass of marine debris, and what you can do to help, over at Current TV:

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Icy climate change

Posted on September 2, 2009 | Leave a comment

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Ice Sculptures Mark 100 Days Until Copenhagen Climate Summit 100! These child-sized ice sculptures sit in Beijing’s Temple of Earth to represent the 1 billion lives that will be lost in Asia due to water shortages caused by climate change (via Inhabit).

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Clearly it is not an enitrely new idea with these ice sculptures below set up by Oxfam outside the UNFCCC conference in Poznan, 2008.

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