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London Pop-up Shop Showcases Best of British Design

Our friends over at the design blog Dezeen have launched a pop-up shop in the smartest part of town. Calling it Temporium, because it is only up for 10 days, it features the best of new British design.




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The top 10 Urban Design stories of 2015

Many of them seem to be about bikes and transportation though....




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Best of Show, Booth Design at Greenbuild: Kohler And Living Machine

The point of having a booth at Greenbuild is to attract attention, and like with everything else, design matters. I immediately fell in love with the Kohler booth; In some ways it is so 2005 green, with its recycled materials




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Scottish architect's Design-Build company MAKAR is doing wonders with wood

MAKAR is doing the kind of work that puts North American architects and builders to shame.




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The Shakers' Design Sense is Still an Influence in America

The Shakers may be long gone but their simplicity of design still has an influence on American furniture.




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Event: Recycled Swimwear Designer Aaron Chang Opens Green Art Gallery

Image via: Aaron Chang Gallery Aaron Chang, popular recycled fashion swimwear designer and professional photographer, not to mention surfing legend, is opening a green art gallery in San Diego, February 28, 2009. Each of the pieces are printed with




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On MNN: The year in urban design

Stories from TreeHugger's sister site about how streets are for people.




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CupClub is a poster child for sustainable, circular design

It is a cup as service, rather than cup as product.




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Speaker system is designed for deconstruction

Everybody should be doing this, planning for repairability from day one.




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Bank signs one contract, goes 100% renewable by EOY

Fifth Third Bank shows us just how easy it is becoming for corporations to source all of their electricity from renewables.




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Google's new HQ, designed by BIG and Thomas Heatherwick, says a lot about the company

If you want to attract good people these days you have to give them a nice place to work.




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Montreal design studio exchanging free coworking space for food donations (Video)

You can work with other location independent workers and do some holiday good deeds at the same time.




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Volkswagen designs "micromobiles" for life after traffic collapse

From scooters to cargo bikes, a bunch of alternatives to driving that car.




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Arup designs a living wall scaffold for London renovation

It looks a lot better than the usual kind, cleans the air and absorbs noise.




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Scientists just uncovered ancient signs of child labor

Kids have been digging in salt mines for thousands of years.




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NY Design/ ICFF Preview: Patty Johnson

The peripatetic international designer explains it all in Core77




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Save the trees! Sign up for Rainforest Alliance's 30-Day Sustainability Challenge

Get simple but powerful personal actions delivered to your inbox every 3 days; 30 actions in all – are you up to the challenge?




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Anthony Thistleton: Sustainable design is over. It's time for Regenerative Design

It's not enough to not make things worse. Our buildings and our actions have to make things better.




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This Month in Wallpaper*: Design Directory 2007

This month's issue of Wallpaper* magazine is dominated by the 2007 Design Directory, their hand-picked favorite architects and designers from the past year. Always the epitome of cool, the mag's slick picks




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Did Bucky Fuller really design a soccer ball?

A lot of websites are saying so, but there is no evidence that it ever happened.




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Beetle-Inspired Design Uses Old Plastic Bottles to Pull Water from the Air

A concept water bottle pulls water from the air like the Namib Desert Beetle.




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Global treaty signed to ban HFC refrigerants

This is a very big deal, but just the first of many more bigger and harder deals that we need.




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US and Canada Sign New Great Lakes Accord

It's been forty years since Nixon and Trudeau signed the original; it's time for an update.




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It's time to ignore Instagram's portrayal of zero waste

Too much DIY, not enough realism. Let's just do our best.




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BrightBuilt Home introduces line of healthy, net-zero modular designs

A mix of modern and traditional design elements that are appropriate for the Northeast make these very interesting houses.




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Towns in Maine declare food sovereignty with local ordinances

In an effort to support local food production and defend customers' rights to buy and eat whatever local farm products they want, 16 towns in Maine have created their own local food ordinances.




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Good luck finding Maine's Katahdin Woods and Waters; The governor has banned signs and directions.

It's another national monument established by Obama and threatened by Trump.




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GO Homes are predesigned, prefabricated, Passivhaus and possibly perfect

GO Logic have always designed beautiful homes. This was the next Go Logical step.




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Experimental office space uses biophilic design to create a 'living lab'

Humanity's innate love for nature is integrated into this design for a biologically attuned and meditative workspace in London.




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Designers used bacteria to make these textiles

This experiment may kickstart a new age of microorganism technology.




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Closed or open kitchen? Charlotte Perriand's design is the best of both worlds

Lessons from the kitchens at Le Corbusier's Unité d’Habitation in Marseille.




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How to design a compact kitchen

You really don't need all those big appliances.




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Modern Oasis Design Provides Shade, Makes Energy

Artist/inventor Michael Jantzen's new concept for a Solar Winds Desert Power Plant envisions a large public gathering place, inspired by the shape of a flowering plant, to be located in a public park in a hot, dry climate.




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Brooklyn Fashion and Design Accelerator welcomes its first entrepreneurs

A new collaborative space dedicated to sustainable fashion design is now open for production.




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Lovewild Designs crafts beautiful confetti and stationery that blooms

A sustainably-minded designer makes cards and paper coins that you can plant.




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Czech Out This New Small Prefab Design From Architect Marek Štěpán.

The Freedomky is a nicely done modular design




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The Fjällräven Kanken Rucksack, a Swedish Eco-Design Classic

Last month, my partner gave me a Fjällräven Kanken rucksack for my 30th birthday, and I have to tell you about it, as this is a classic amongst the eco-designs nowadays. I first spotted these slightly odd-looking bags in London many years ago, and




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Why you should save for the real thing instead of buying knock-off designer furniture

It has become a trillion dollar industry where nobody wins.




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Joris Laarman Lab shows the future of digital design

An exhibition of their work is at the Cooper Hewitt in New York.




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Split design on sit-stand adjustable height desk lets you do both (Video)

This modern work desk lets more than one person sit and stand -- at the same time.




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Scott Amron's Fruitwash Label Solves Huge Design Problem

It has challenged designers since the invention of the bar code: What to do about those stupid little labels?




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Design competition for a New York Aquarium makes a splash

But I am in the tank for the one that came in second




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The City above the city: designing for preservation and intensification

A design competition that shows that we can have our cake and eat it too.




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SkyCity Challenge: a design competition to figure out how to use the world's tallest prefab

There are 17 atriums that need to be filled with creative uses.




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Winners of the INDEX: Design to Improve Life Awards announced

They really do live up to their billing this year.




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Lessons from Le Corbusier in sustainable design

Really, there is a lot to love about his work that applies to green building. Really.




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How design decisions on materials are "disproportionately damning the world to further climate change"

Steve Webb thinks we should tax upfront carbon like cigarettes, and we should build in wood and stone.




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How Design is Shaped by Purpose

Can products be better for people? Can buildings be better for the planet? Gradually, business is waking up to the fact that design can be beautiful and responsible.




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101 Tiny House Designs (Book Review)

This book full of small space design ideas is a handy tool for those wanting to get their own tiny house built.




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Paw Pods offer a dignified biodegradable burial option for pets

Our pets become like family to us during their lives, so why not treat them with the dignity that a family member deserves when they die?