Design Green

August 28, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

The always-innovative industrial design firm Lunar has recently published a simple, clear, and inspiring Designer's Field Guide to Sustainability. It outlines in just six pages strategies and tactics for all design industries (interiors, architecture, graphics, engineering) to manufacture, construct, and produce more sustainable design solutions.

By asking questions of design processes—from"what is it trying to accomplish?" to "how is it used?" and "where does it end up?"—the Field Guide makes a great referenc...Read More

August 27, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

For sustainable simplicity, check out the understated but gorgeous furniture line from STAACH: The Cain Collection, available online via Branch Home. The chairs, tables, benches, and stools, are made from sustainably-harvested red or white maple, straight from our own back yard (New York and Pennsylvania).

Designer Seth Eshelman created the line as an affordable and adaptable sustainable alternative. Available in a number of unfinished options or colored lacquer finishes to complement any decor. ...Read More

August 26, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

In my recent quest for magenta paint, I of course turned to the usual low- and no-VOC options: Yolo, etc. But I was happy to find that my neighborhood Home Depot has begun to carry another great option: Freshaire. The no-odor, Greenguard-certified VOC-free paint has a great texture, and comes in wonderful colors (some no-VOC lines have fairly limited color palettes).

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August 21, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (2)

Here's a quirky yet gorgeous product that would make a great accent in a home office or kid's room. UK-based SmilePlastics has found a clever way to repurpose all those old cell phones we're constantly chucking: Discarded cell phone casings are compressed into usable sheets—Mobiles plastic panels. There's no shredding or cutting, making the original phones' shapes and colors clearly distinguishable. Not to mention each panel is unique. Panels come in 6mm-thick sheets, 1,200 by 600 millimeters.

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August 20, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

One part great green material, one part childhood nostalgia (remember collecting seaglass on the beach?), Vitrohue is a 100-percent recycled glass line of products with applications in all kinds of contexts. Use the tumbled glass, glass aggregate, or mosaic-stained glass tiles for everything from kitchen and bath tiling to wall finishes and terrazzo flooring.

Unlike many other similar products, Vitrohue has brilliant colors and high transparency. Check out their full product line and color stories at their website.

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