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Milkit With DIY Milk Carton Lamps
Milkit is a creative way to turn milk bottles into kickin’ table lamps. The kit is sold by Play Design and was developed by Alexandru Adam and Steven Koch. The nature inspired graphics come with the kit along with the hardware (cords, sockets, fittings, etc). It’s up to you to provide the milk bottles, of [...]
Tall Ship Belem Delivers Wine by Sail and Saves Carbon
The story of the barque Belem is filled with romance. Today it is being put to use as a working cargo ship to deliver sustainably produced wines from France. Built in 1896, and named for the Brazilian seaport at the mouth of the Amazon, the Belem originally shipped chocolate in its hold from Brazil to [...]
Durat Recycled and Recyclable Plastics
Durat makes a dynamic and multiuse plastic from recycled plastic that can itself be recycled. Going into the future designers, engineers, and manufacturers need to look further down the line when producing a good. Durat has shown that product end life planning is possible and productive. The lifecycle of a product should be highly considered [...]
Traffic Sign Housewares: DPW Bowls and Transit Chairs
This man knows signage, how to find it, shape it, and put it to use! Boris Bally is a Providence Rhode Island based artist who specializes in metallurgy. He has found his niche using scrapped street signs that he meticulously searches out to match colors and textures. After his education at Carnegie Mellon and apprenticeships [...]
PANO Chair: Less Space, Less Waste
The PANO Chair utilizes the single sheet of ply wood it is cut from nearly to completion. The single board is cut using a high powered water jet. The pieces, once popped out, fit together without the aid of glue, screws, or nails using lever force, wedge methods, and flexed surfaces that secure one another. [...]
