Recycling things is always fun and rewarding. Designing things from recycled materials can be hard, but designers from Grain Design never let this as a hindrance and come up with the Café America chair that is made from recycled from recycled chain-link fencing material. This chair can also be flat-packed for easy transportation. Assembling is …
Category: Outdoors
Firewinder By Tom Lawton
We already had enough of solar powered lights, this time around, it will be the winds turn to provide us with sustainable lighting. British inventor Tom Lawton wanted to show to everybody the beauty and endless resources of alternative energies, and created the Firewinder, a wind power outdoor lighting that spins and collects energy as …
Packit Potz By Anton Webb
The plant itself provides many benefits to the environment. However, planting them in an eco pots made them even more eco-friendly. Designer Anton Webb created the Packit Potz, an eco-friendly non-plastic plastic pot. This pot is made from recycled materials and Low Opacity Polypropylene, and the production and transportation cost for this pot is minimal. …
Fidu Rotor By MAS-Students 0809
Wind turbines are known to be huge and designed for commercial purposes. MAS-Students 0809 of the caad chair at ETHÂ give chance to household owners who wanted to save money from their energy usage and of course save the environment as well with his wind turbine design called the Fidu Rotor. The Fidu Rotor is …
The Idea Of A Tree By Mischer Traxler
I was quite amazed of this solar powered furniture making machine called The Idea of a Tree by Mischer’ Traxler. Each product has its shape and color formed and determined depending on the amount of sunlight by the time certain product is manufactured. The machine works out by drawing a thread through a tank with …
Mitsubishi i Miev: The Mini Eco-friendly Car
The help save the environment, Mitsubishi Motors unveiled its electric powered mini car called the i-MiEV during the World Environment Day. Using this car means less tons of CO2 per year. This cute mini car will be available to the Japanese market in July. Hope this will be available internationally very soon so that more …
Solar Powered Bus Shelter By Lundberg Design
Here come another solar powered structure that will allow us to enjoy electricity usage without the need to consume those high priced gas. The solar powered bus shelter by Lundberg Design was already installed in San Francisco Bay area. This eco-shelter has photovoltaic panels that will collect sunrays to power their intercom, LED lighting and …
Bag Stool By Gitta Gschwendtner
Eco-friendly design can be of different reason why they became eco-friendly. With the Bag Stool by Gitta Gschwendtner’s situation, I find it eco-friendly because aside from it being made based on shopping bags, the designer also uses a mixture of concrete and wood fibers, thus minimizes the consumption of first hand materials. The bag stool …
The Magic Carpet Ride By Jake Tompkins
Riding on the magic carpet ride can be every child’s dream. However, this time around it is everybody’s dream come true. With The magic Carpet Ride by Jake Tompkins, everybody can now have a relaxing and fun ride in this eco-friendly hammock created using a recycled carpet sample. As the name suggests, the magic carpet …
Watershed: Encouraging People To Drink Tap Water
Almost all of us are using bottled water for our daily drinking needs without knowing how much waste and harm we have added to our landfill and the environment respectively. Recently, NYC-based graphic design agency, MSLK is installing the watershed, that will be shown at the Figment Art Festival on June 12-14 on Governor’s Island …