story of stuff

important video for any industrial designer, consumers, and citizens.

figuring it out

going for some visual brainstorming on issues for my final project

‘when is now?’

radiohead-all i need

in the world right next to this one

america’s plan for climate change

http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?source=hptextfeature&story_id=12562343

Heres an article from the economist about climate situation and what America is thinking of doing about it

Future Farmers

http://www.futurefarmers.com/survey/index.php

A san fran. based art group that works through art and design to produce objects that bring

environmental, social and technological awareness.

The Economist Branded Pizza Boxes

“As part of their “Get a World View” campaign, The Economist distributed branded pizza boxes through 20 pizzerias in the Greater Philadelphia area. Each box displays one of a handful of pie charts that show a statistic related to world food distribution, with an emphasis on those used in pizza production. They list things like global wheat consumption, world cheese imports and arable crop land.

The placement of shops wasn’t random either. The shops were chosen because of a close proximity to one of Philly’s institutions of higher learning. The idea was to target a youth market by branding their favorite source of sustenance. While undoubtedly a promotion for the British newsmagazine, the pizza boxes represent a creative, through-provoking method of essentially force-feeding information. Perhaps it’s a subject matter slightly heavier than the average pizza consumer is expecting. Do we need to know that 96.8 percent of American mushroom imports come from Canada? Probably not, but it’s definitely food for thought.”

via coolhunting

Susana Soares’s ‘Bees’, Bel-Air, Element Four’s Watermill

Susana Soares’s ‘Bees’ is a diagnosis tool that contains trained bees to detect cancer , fertility cycle and sickness through odor

Bel-Air filters air with plants that absorb toxins emitted by manufactured goods

Element Four’s Watermill draws moisture from the air outside and turns it into fresh drinking water

blankblank, standby extension, dash mcdonald

juxtaposed is a shelf that levels out the worlds most important religious text

Standby extension is an extension cord that raises the awareness of climate crisis

Dash Mcdonald’s Find a branch is an unfinished product that ask user to bring nature into the home

andy goldsworthy, dove, robert lax

Turning

a jungle

into a

garden

without

disturbing

a single

flower.

-Robert Lax