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Greenpiece
When the pioneering designer R. Buckminster Fuller wrote Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth he gave us a handle on how to see our Spaceship in a holistic way. Likewise, his Dymaxion Map shows the world as pretty much a single island floating in a sea of blue.
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DESIGNEWS
Cape Town's electricity crisis has gripped the country, bringing home the importance of conserving energy - literally. Now that the domestic power cuts are (hopefully) over, the big news is that the DME has had the bright idea of phasing out regular incandescent bulbs...
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Don't call me babe
It may look cute and cuddly, but it's one of the planet's worst poO-llutants.
Babies are, of course, necessary for the continuation of the species. Too many babies, on the other hand, mean over-population and all its attendant problems...
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Death Star
Top graduates of Design Academy Eindhoven recently exhibited eco-friendly "death designs" that are, quite literally, to die for...
Contemplating our own mortality is not merely the preserve of the grim-minded. Nowadays, everyone loves a good death - judging by the popularity of television shows like Six Feet Under...
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High Five
We asked award-winning civil engineer Mike Edmonds, an associate director of Arup, the global design and business consultancy, to identify five of the world's most significant sustainable projects.Eco-friendly buildings and sustainable development are more than mere concepts...
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Botany Bay
If you thought botanical illustration was dying out as fast as the rare plants it depicts, you may need to adjust your magnifying glass. Botanical illustration may be an age-old art, first employed by explorers and colonialists, but it is not an ageing one. Rather than be rendered redundant with the advent...
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Oog on on Droog
Focusing on Droog's eco explorations proves that the Dutch design collective's font of good ideas never runs dry
A local cider campaign carries the pay-off line: "It's dry, but you can drink it". With Droog, it's dry but you can think it. Sober execution, dry wit and concepts, concepts, concepts underpin Droog's output, providing the...
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Prophet of the City
The poet of technology, Denis Santachiara, marries art and design. But his forward-thinking, unconventional explorations also mark him as a prophet of the new age. Denis Santachiara has always been an anomaly: part artist, part imaginatrix and part magician.... he's hard to categorise. Somewhat of a design enigma...
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Mission rescue
Photographer Clinton Friedman is not only rescuing Botanical Art from obscurity, he's also raising awareness about the illegally harvested medicinal plants that he saves from "muti" markets and then rehabilitates...
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rural renewal
Cities are planetary parasites that continue to spread… One way of halting urban expansion and migration from rural to urban areas, argues Carl Harrison, is through sustainable rural design. Over the past 100 years we have seen urban populations expand at an incredible rate. More people now live in cities than ever before...
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Shades of green
In this series, some of our most able designers, art directors and illustrators - there's even a prize-winning author thrown in for good measure - drop thought-provoking image bombs that inject an entire spectrum into this single band of colour...
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"Manifesto"
Late in the industrial age, a design and aesthetic movement arose, publicly declaring devotion to the pace of city life and its mechanised efficiency. The Futurists, as they called themselves, issued a manifesto for their Machine Age that urged followers to embrace their Modernism. Futurism, although short-lived, had impact...
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Walk on the wild side
A pro bono campaign by the award-winning Jupiter Drawing Room tells people to take a hike
If you think advertising is only about consumer culture and corporate greed, then drop the cynicism (ok, not all of it) and take some time out from that urban, media-saturated lifestyle - preferably by going on one of these pristinely located...
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