Showing posts with label Sustainable Design. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sustainable Design. Show all posts

Sunday, 7 August 2011

Container Architecture












"Container Architecture" exhibition in Düsseldorf, Germany: on now through September 4, 2011.

Expo "Arquitetura de Contêiner" em cartaz em Dusseldorf, na Alemanha. Breve em área da sua cidade, perto de você.

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Thursday, 14 July 2011

sustainable art






The Riverside Art Museum in California presents work by New York based artist Josh Blackwell, an installation featuring the artist's 'plastic baskets' series, in which plastic bags are salvaged, embroidered with yarn, and repurposed into artworks.

Instalação no novaiorquino Josh Blackwell no RAM (Riverside Art Museum da California), uma série a partir de sacolas plásticas que levanta os efeitos colaterais do consumo para a ecologia, fazendo um cruzamento entre alta cultura e lixo cultural.

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Saturday, 21 May 2011

design & sustainability for kids

Great interview about Design and aesthetic references for kids. Portuguese only, sorry!

Design tem que ter cara de criança sem personalidade? Menino é só azul e menina é só rosa? Pra quê descartar as peças ou ter tudo pronto e igualzinho?

Continuando no clima do post anterior, a Nara Maitre, minha amiga do blog do My Mom Is So Cool e designer talentosa do Nid de Petits, postou uma ótima entrevista do programa Nos Trinques, de Guto Requena, com o empresário Houssein Jarouche da Micasa. Eles falam sobre a importância do design e da educação com sensibilidade visual e artística para crianças. Além de tratar de temas como customização, convivência criativa e sustentabilidade afetiva no universo infantil, levantam a questão de se educar sem excluir e de se pensar em uma nova geração com experiências estéticas mais abrangentes e bem mais interessantes.

Valeu Nara, Guto, Hussein, Marcel Wanders, Charles & Ray Eames e mãe. Estar no mundo é ver desde pequeno a importância de misturar, integrar e criar.








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Sunday, 2 January 2011

typobag



Finally a tote bag everyone wants!

Bio Bag, by Danish Thorbjørn Ankerstjerne, a designer who lives in London and works as editor and art director of the great FILE Magazine.

"6 billion plastic bags are being used every year in the UK.
The environment suffers enormously from it, so please take care!"

O meio é a mensagem.
Projeto primoroso de comunicação, design sustentável, tipografia e desenho de produto.

Tuesday, 9 November 2010

do you have change?




"All the Kings Men", furniture made from coins, by Johnny Swing.

Sunday, 1 August 2010

ion series




Paper collages by Norwegian artist Are Mokkelbost were made over a long period of time, some over three years. Most of the imagery is found in fashion and lifestyle magazine.

O artista categoriza e arquiva o material por cores e estilos, pra facilitar o processo criativo da colagem. Só esse cuidado inicial com o trabalho já é uma forma de arte.

Hipnotizante.

Saturday, 3 July 2010

Zhuang Hong Yi





Chinese-born, Dutch-raised artist Zhuang Hong Yi manipulates thousands of rice paper flowers. Combining them with layers of acrylic and oil paint, he creates large-scale fields of petals—both on canvas and in coffee tables.

Milhares de flores de papel com uma demão de tinta óleo pra fazer arte.
Trabalhinho (lindo) de chinês.

vi aqui.

Thursday, 10 June 2010

#worldcupfeelings




‘Fan man’ is an urban installation made with 2,500 used Coke crates that stands 16.5 meter tall and is located in Newtown Joburg.

Designed for Coca-Cola by designer Porky Hefer of Animal Farm and made possible by the artists Lesley Perkes and Mark Sinoff of Art At Work Art management, Cratefan is a recycling initiative and all the materials will be reused/recycled once he has finished celebrating.

2 projetos da Coca para esta Copa – Ticket Fund e Ball Crew – recompensaram estudantes e escolar pela coleta de garrafas e latas. Parte do material coletado foi utilizado para a construção do Cratefan.

Espetacular.

Saturday, 5 June 2010

ecoart


Henrique Oliveira started his career as an artist by experimenting with the surfaces of his paintings. A breakthrough ocurred when the plywood fence outside his window began to peel and fade into different layers and colors, while he was a student in São Paulo, Brazil. The material, called Tapumes in Portuguese (which means "fencing", "boarding" or "enclosure" and refers to this kind of weathered wood found in urban spaces, pretty common in Brazil and useless after a construction site is finished), is the title of the artist's large-scale organic eco-friendly installations.


Essa semana teremos a abertura da exposição no Rio, na Galeria Silvia Cintra + Box 4.





Sunday, 23 May 2010

e agora, josé?








"Linha Jose" is the furniture design project by the Brazilian Mauricio Arruda. His sustainable concept is based on the plastic cheap boxes that are used in market places in order to transport the goods.

Was grandma a visionaire when she got some of these boxes I could use as cribs for my dolls?

E não é que minha avó já ousava na arte da reciclagem sustentável quando pegava as caixas de feira que eu usava como berço pras minhas bonecas... Vovó era trendy e não sabia.

Ô freguesa, vem pra feira catar cestinha de móvel designoso, vem?

Amei a ideia.

Monday, 3 May 2010

the unique types project


Unique Types is a special collection of fonts inspired by children suffering from physical disabilities. Each font is created under the Creative Common license and is free of rights and limitations on use.


Designers can create their own Unique Type and advertisers can welcome its use. That's why AACD (Association for the Welfare of the Handicapped Children), an NGO in Brazil, is now asking for Creative Directors to join the cause and use the fonts in their ads.




Washington Olivetto from AACD on Vimeo.


The video above is the invitation for Washington Olivetto, WMcCann's chairman & one of the most important names in Brazilian advertising history (someone I feel honoured to have as my Creative leader at work). And he's already accepted the invitation.
And also above is the new ad for Globo.com (Creative Direction Washington Olivetto / Art Director Eiji Kozaka / Copywriter Marcelo Conde), using a Unique Type font. Valeu pela adesão, meninos.

Uma vez tive a oportunidade de trabalhar para a AACD e pude visitar a sede em Nova Iguaçu, Rio. O trabalho deles, além de sério e motivador, é inacreditável. Por ser uma entidade tão revolucionária, a AACD merece esse engajamento coletivo, no tom exato que a campanha tem - e não uma sensação de peninha ou drama. O André Lima, da nbs, também foi chamado e também já aceitou. E assim vão outros, como Marcelo Serpa e Marco Versolato.

André Lima from AACD on Vimeo.


Parabéns pela ação, pela convocação em homenagem, pelo comprometimento de quem aderiu e por todo o buzz merecido.

Emocionante e genial.


Saturday, 13 March 2010

Light Reading

























New project by British designer Lucy Norman and her studio Lula Dot: the Light Reading chandelier.

Wasted books are used to create a beautiful chandelier and every page is folded in half, producing a circular arrangement which hangs around a ceiling light. Her latest projects have dealt with the problem of waste and the reusage proposal, working with a range of objects & materials to create lights, jewellery and furniture.

Ou seja, quando a gente fazia isso com os livros da escola em tudo o que era aula chata, já era criação auto-sustentável, né não?

Bem bacana a ideia.

Sunday, 7 March 2010

Postcarden







Postcarden, by A Studio for Design, is an ecological series of greeting cards that fold out into miniature gardens, in which the recipient can grow cress.

In their definition, "Postcarden is a fun and simple way to grow a mini-garden on your desktop, windowsill or sideboard. Send a friend or loved one Postcarden and introduce them to the life-enhancing ritual of caring for a plant."

Vi primeiro aqui no Bicho de Goiaba, e depois lá no dezeen e no think