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The Plumen Range is a series of low energy light bulbs that transform a traditionally uninspiring, everyday product, into a beautiful object.
Hulger hopes to inspire people to buy and use CFL bulbs (or low energy light bulbs) through desire, rather than obligation. This company believes that people have a lot to offer and should be celebrated, not ignored.
So far Hulger has produced three prototype designs and the reaction has been universally positive. Their first design have joined the very prestigious permanent collection at MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) in New York, while the second has been featured at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. The Times, The Boston Globe, ICON, Architects Journal, Design Week and Surface have all featured the Plumen.
The next step is to make one accessible to the public. In 2010, Hulger will launch the first mass manufactured version of the Plumen Range.
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Content by: Stefano Merlo – www.stefanomerlo.com
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Nowadays, to save energy is one of the most pressing problem. This is already possible with the actual technology, such as low consumption led lights and solar panels; but actual products seem to be too far from people’s uses and overall they require not so much interaction to aware people about the problem.
Energy Bucket is an innovative product that comes from the habit of the past to collect potable water at the well using buckets. In fact, “Energy Bucket” requires to be exposed by the user under the solar light to recharge (thanks to the solar panels on top), so that it can be carried anywhere and illuminate once night (it works with Wide Beam Superbright LEDs housed on the plastic bucket). A honest exchange between man and nature: I do something to have something back, clean light!
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Source: Solar Sailor Holdings Ltd – www.solarsailor.com
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An inspirational, luxurious 58m superyacht. Powered by our solar, wind and hybrid marine power technologies and designed by Alastair Callender of Callender Designs. Soliloquy’s rigid-wing rig, and architecturally dynamic form, will be a unique sight to all mariners.
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Content by: Chumbe Island Coral Park Ltd. (CHICOP) – www.chumbeisland.com
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Source: Chumbe Island Coral Park Ltd. (CHICOP) – www.chumbeisland.com
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- Oskar Henriksson
- Jimmy Livefjord
- Manolo Yllera
- Martin Leyendecker
- Heinz Heile
- Guido Cozzi
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- Sibylle Riedmiller
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Chumbe Island Coral Park Ltd. (CHICOP) – www.chumbeisland.com
- Oskar Henriksson
- Jimmy Livefjord
- Manolo Yllera
- Martin Leyendecker
- Heinz Heile
- Guido Cozzi
Chumbe hosts a highly specialised plant community that has developed to survive without any groundwater, instead depending on capturing the moisture from the humid air and storing the rainfall during the rainy seasons. The bedrock of the island is made up of an impressive substrate of fossilized coral. You can still see the skeletal structures of corals and giant clams – a gentle reminder of the passage of time. More staggering still is the coral-rag forest. The density of the forest is spectacular, as adventitious roots thrust out in all directions and epiphytic species cling to life by wrapping themselves around all available surfaces.
Researchers have taken up to four hours to transverse the 1 km stretch through the central forest reserve and the crags and caves hidden underfoot as remnant of the reef structure of this fossilized coral habitat, makes studying this environment both challenging and consistently rewarding as new discoveries are constantly uncovered. For guests the nature trails provided allow for an insight into this otherwise virtually impenetrable habitat.
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Content by: Duende Press Relations
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Source: Mathieu Lehanneur – www.mathieulehanneur.com
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L’Atelier des enfants at the Centre Pompidou has been up and running from 10th July in the new area designed by Mathieu Lehanneur. It now offers a more spacious setting (300m2), which is better adapted to activities for children aged from 2 to 12 years. With its rounded corners, a direct allusion to a skate park as recreational scenery, the preview last Saturday confirmed the delighted ease with which the children became immersed in the venue!
"I wanted to give children the immediate impression on entering the Ateliers of an area without limits or constraints. I wanted them to feel like they were on a huge white sheet that needed to be filled. In all of my first sketches, I had an image of a skate-park in my mind for children-artists: an object-space which is experienced like a game. A far cry from the school universe. Floors and walls blend into one here and everything can be filled. Here, everything necessary to create is accessible but nothing is visible. Here the areas are so open that everything needs to be invented…" Mathieu Lehanneur
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Content by: Stefano Merlo – www.stefanomerlo.com
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BLADE OF GRASS is an outdoor lighting solution that takes inspiration directly from the nature, and precisely from blades of grass.
The aim was to design a lighting source that could be easily integrated in any natural environment and become part of it, rather than being something interfering. In fact, as well as blades of grass, the form of this lighting source is thought to be organic, flexible, dynamic and plantable on the ground.
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