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Source: Tom Price – www.tom-price.com
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These birdhouses were commissioned by Arts Co, in collaboration with Phillips de Pury & Co, to raise funds for the charity, Adventure Ecology.
The brief was to create a home for specific species of birds, bats or bees native to the UK using waste material from the Phillips de Pury auction house.
The outer casing for the houses is created by partially melting down plastic water bottle tops – collected after auctions held at Phillips de Pury – to form rigid shell-like hemispheres that reference the cracked eggs of the chicks that will hopefully hatch inside. The silver house was made from discarded Pepsi bottle tops collected from a local recycling centre.
The inner lining is made from coir (coconut hair) and latex, sculpted into a sphere that offers a soft and sheltered environment for rearing chicks.
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MVRDV wins Gwanggyo Power Centre Competition, near Seoul, South Korea.
(Rotterdam, December 3rd, 2008) The Daewoo Consortium and the municipality of Gwanggyo announced the MVRDV concept design for a dense city centre winner of the developers competition for the future new town of Gwanggyo, located 35km south of the Korean capital Seoul. The plan consists of a series of overgrown hill shaped buildings with great programmatic diversity, aiming for high urban density and encouragement of further developments around this so-called Power Centre, one of the envisioned two centres of the future new town.
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Source: Yu Jordy Fu – www.jordyfu.co.uk
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The Cloud Lamp Story
In 201AD, the Chinese invented paper, a marvelous material with a complex character. For thousands of years we used paper to write, paint and communicate our thoughts, dreams and desires. Paper-cutting is a unique art form, Chinese women use this graceful and intricate media to record the joy and surprises of their lives and to decorate their homes.
Yu Jordy Fu has developed this ancient technique to create expressive and elaborate forms, which break free from the two-dimensional realm to a dreamlike three-dimensional landscape.
These delicate lampshades are inspired by Jordy’s architectural design projects and scale at 1:50, each lamp is a sensational space, they instantly transform the atmosphere of a home. The Cloud Lamp is a unique and exquisite gift.
Cloud Lamps are sustainable: the material is recycled paper, they are handmade and should be used with energy saving light bulbs. By introducing the Chinese paper-cutting tradition into a contemporary art form, the Cloud Lamp is also sustaining a culture.
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Source: Peter Marigold – www.petermarigold.com
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The Vegetable Light is a possible table lamp utilizing a large heavy vegetable as a base. Rather than buying a vegetable for its edible potential, the sculptural form and functional qualities are emphasized and the owner is invited to experiment creatively with different vegetables. Yams, Celeriac and Swedes tend to work best.
The lamp was created as a handmade small studio run of sixteen signed and numbered units for the exhibition Food Marketo. It is available to buy from Design Marketo with variants of switched / un-switched and pink / pearl bulbs.
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A series of seven bird houses made from salvaged shop signs and crate material. The folds in the material are unmeasured resulting in a series of irregular coloured shapes.
The regularity of forms that populate our modern man made environment are driven by the economical use of materials and machinery. An invitation to use waste material is also an invitation to use wasteful geometry that is non-the less as quick to create as a regular form. Seen together, a logical rhythmic quality seems to appear.
The houses were made for the charity auction ‘The Birds, The Bats & The Bees‘ held at Phillips de Pury & Company held in June 2008. The project is an initiative of Arts Co.
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60BAG is a perfect natural answer to the environment’s needs. They are biodegradable carrier bags made out of flax-viscose non-woven fabric. Its material was scientifically developed and manufactured in Poland.
The flax-viscose fabric is produced with flax fiber industrial waste, which means it doesn’t exploit any natural resources and requires minimal energy during its production. This highly innovative technology enables the bags to naturally decompose approximately 60 days after being discarded, which means they don’t require expensive recycling or disposal in landfills.
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