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David Colwell, a furniture designer residing in UK, has been recently awarded for its “Achair” at this years Wood Awards. The Achair is hand-made by the designer himself using an old technique using vapor to bend the chair into its curvy shapes. Colwell used sustainable materials, Ash wood and rivets made from old copper pipes. [...]
In: eco design
15 Apr 2011Solar technology conquer the world of gadgets. We have seen a number of gadgets powered by solar energy. Sol Design Lab`s Solar Pump takes advantage of the accessibility of solar light and further promotes this new trend. Are you running out of power? Stop by the Solar Pump station, a solar charging station set up from [...]
In: eco design
29 Mar 2011This ambitious concept of Self Sufficient House by architect Iana Kozak should be build in the city of Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine. Each house cell will be from 2 to 5 floors high. As the dwellings upon the trunk does not occupy a lot of space, it creates a free space for a parking or recreation. The outer [...]
Did you know that one wastes almost six liters of tap water while washing hands? Designers Yonggu Do, Dohyung Kim & Sewon Oh decided to raise awareness of this problem and designed the “1ℓimit faucet”. The tap tube is made from glass and can hold only 1 liter of water, so when you used it [...]
A group of designers Bi Zhao, Fengchi L, Meixian Su, Fengming Chen, Yuke Li, Jiamin Liang and Yujie Chen have probably passed a lot of time waiting for a metro train. They came up with an original idea how to utilize mechanical energy that is created while passing through rotating gates at metro stations, parks [...]