Emily Pilloton

Emily Pilloton is Founder of Project H Design, a charitable organization that supports, inspires, and delivers product design initiatives for Humanity, Habitats, Health, and Happiness. She is also a freelance design writer, furniture designer, and nomad based in San Francisco. Trained in architecture with degrees from UC Berkeley and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, she has written for GOOD Magazine, Innovative Home, was Managing Editor at Inhabitat.com, and has also taught design theory in Chicago. When she isn't traveling or emailing, Emily enjoys baking cupcakes and playing trivia board games.

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Floorboards with Natural Lines

While straight-edged floorboards are easy to install and technologically logical, a new Dutch Company, Bolefloor, has a new take: use the natural curves of the wood to dictate how floor boards fit together. The method results in less cut wood waste and increasing the output from a single tree. The method has been in use previously by a few craftsmen, but the company believes that it is worthy of... More

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House Within a Garden in Belgium

There are ivy-covered buildings, and then there's this beauty: a Chia-pet-style vertical garden-clad live work space in Linkebeek, Belgium. The structure, designed by Samyn and Partners and took 8 years to build. Originally, the walls were to be covered with ivy and topped off by a copper roof, but the long-drawn-out construction timeline was a blessing in disguise, as the fully green facade emer... More

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Architect Barbie

Many of you may have already seen this floating around the blogosphere, but it was too good to pass up a comment or two. The latest from Mattel's infamous Barbie collection is the much-anticipated Architect Barbie, a creative, hip Barbie toting her hard hat and construction documents (but wearing high heels, which seems like fodder for cat calls and falling over I-beams a at a construction site).... More

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Are Double-Duty Products Really Sustainable?

Companies and retailers like to argue that if a product can do multiple things for you, say broadcast your morning news AND make your toast, as seen above, it MUST be a more sustainable option, as you only need to buy one product instead of two. I wonder, though, how far this thinking goes, as all too often, you end up with a sub-par toaster with a radio component you never use, and end up buying... More

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Solar-Powered Rainwater Reuse

One of the few disadvantages to harvesting your own rainwater is the not-so-easy task of toting the rainwater from barrel to your vast garden. Most systems require you to fill additional buckets to move rainwater from barrel to landscape, or have some sort of tap device through which you can drain water out the bottom of a raised barrel. The latest technology, however, comes from RainPerfect, and... More

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