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Recyclable Paper Laptop
How often do you buy a new computer? After two years? Four? For such complex products, we go through them pretty quick, and that adds up to a lot of ultra harmful e-waste. It’s something computer companies are already striving for, but designer Je Sung Park is taking the idea of a recyclable computer to its furthest limits. His Recyclable Paper Laptop is made from pulp and reprocessed materials, and would be broken down into the…
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A Paradigm Shift: Empowering Uganda through Bio Sand Water Filteration Systems: An Introduction
Let me introduce myself first. I’m a graduate student in Industrial Design from the Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA. I’ve been working on my thesis for quite some time and as the design gets closer to realization, i’m opening up the stage for some discussion, advice, comments or critiques. People who know others or have been in the field can any time shoot me an email or comment and I’ll be more… -
First meeting for the “Create, Don’t Hate” billboard project
Seven designers/design studios connected with seven youth in a speed-dating session to getting to know each other, fast. Five (or so) minutes per person. It went fast and we were able to make the pairings of Designer/Student soon after. The event was held at p:ear in downtown. I’d have to say that, both groups were a little tentative at first but everyone loosened up and had a good time finding out about each other’s work. Maybe… -
The Greatest Guerrilla Art Mystery You’ve Never Heard Of (But May Have Walked Over)
The curious case of the Toynebee Tiles and their continuing legacy The most culturally revered street art is often wrapped in an element of intrigue: Banksy’s quasi-anonymity has garnered as much attention as his artwork. But what happens when that intrigue swells far beyond the bounds of mere mystery and consumes the very message of the art? The biggest guerrilla art movement of our time is older than Banksy, more geographically promiscuous than JR, and has remained unsolved… -
Free Modern Chairs in New York City Shine a Light on Human Behavior
There’s a fascinating social experiment underway on the streets of New York, wherein the modern furniture company BluDot is depositing a series (25, to be exact) of their signature Real Good Chairs around the city, free for the taking. The chairs are equipped with GPS tracking devices so their journeys can be monitored publicly in the spirit of “curb mining,” the act of finding furniture on street corners and taking it into our lives. Learn where new… -
Advertising, Abstracted
The Wooster Collective talks to Ji Lee about turning video billboards into glowing art pieces. Ji Lee is one of New York City’s most prolific street artists. Lee’s day job is in advertising, and his art is a reaction to the prolific and uncreative advertising on our streets. He is most well know for the “Bubble Project,” where he placed empty speech bubbles on outdoor advertisements and allowed the city to fill them in. Here, we’re highlighting… -
World Building in a Crazy World — by Jonathan Harris
An enjoyable collection of thoughts about where the internet is (or could be) going… Original article: Jonathan Harris . World Building in a Crazy World
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re:active billboard project with Design Ignites Change
re:activekicked off our billboard design project with Design Ignites Change here in Portland, OR on Saturday. We are very excited to use the space typically available to corporations (the billboard) and use it for the purpose of getting youth voices out in the world. These are important voices and the chosen theme for the project is “Tolerance”. We feel that it touches everyone in some way and that it is open enough to allow for many approaches… -
Welcome to the (Recently-rebranded) Neighborhood
I just spent a week in New York spitting out the portmanteau poetry of urban branding. SoHo! NoHo! TriBeCa! NoLiTa!—all innocuous neighborhood names picked to boost property values and spur development. Of course, some names don’t stick as well. The neighborhood north of Madison Square Park is aching to be known as NoMad (or sometimes, the ill-fated NoMaS). The area everyone still calls Hell’s Kitchen was supposedly deemed the less-fire-and-brimstone Clinton (where, as it abuts Chelsea,… -
Check out Ben Fry’s awesome work
Ben Fry is always doing amazing artistic visualizations. Check them out here. Original article: projects | ben fry
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