Category: ‘Green’
Design: Client: Ville de Montréal Date: 2009 In its transportation plan Réinventer Montréal , the Ville de Montréal wanted to provide different means of getting around Montréal. Given its immense popularity in Europe, the Ville de Montréal decided to make a public bike system one of the measures included in the plan. BIXI is viewed [...]
Design: Frank O. Gehry
Client:
Date: 1987
Photo: SFMoma
Design: Client: Umbra Date: 2009 Following the remix trend, Umbra produces a number of market tests of the repurposed variety (taking found objects and upcycling them into a new use). I am not convinced on the success of this tactic here given that the results are so homely and unappealing, both qualities that consumer goods [...]
Design: Kathryn Walter
Client: Felt Studio
Date: 2008
I’ve been doing a lot of on-site work at a client’s office this year. I’ve been holed-up in a kind of satellite office, which has a small, one-person bathroom.
This organization is pretty progressive, so the bathroom has automated lighting that comes on when the motion sensor detects I’ve entered. They’ve also got the two-button toilets [...]
Elfiq’s new LB-800E and LB-1600E are the greenest products in our product category to date – they have a 25W power supply which is not used at full capacity.
Considering the environmental impact of IT, this is good news. Considering that m…
I am one of those bad friends that never reply to FW: emails. You know, the ones that tell the recipient they are special and important. The kind that usually end with threats like seven years of bad luck if you fail to send it out to 20 of your bestest friends in 5 [...]
Design: Client: Ville de Montréal Date: 2009 In its transportation plan Réinventer Montréal , the Ville de Montréal wanted to provide different means of getting around Montréal. Given its immense popularity in Europe, the Ville de Montréal decided to make a public bike system one of the measures included in the plan. BIXI is viewed [...]
Design: Frank O. Gehry
Client:
Date: 1987
Photo: SFMoma
Design: Client: Umbra Date: 2009 Following the remix trend, Umbra produces a number of market tests of the repurposed variety (taking found objects and upcycling them into a new use). I am not convinced on the success of this tactic here given that the results are so homely and unappealing, both qualities that consumer goods [...]
Design: Kathryn Walter
Client: Felt Studio
Date: 2008
I’ve been doing a lot of on-site work at a client’s office this year. I’ve been holed-up in a kind of satellite office, which has a small, one-person bathroom.
This organization is pretty progressive, so the bathroom has automated lighting that comes on when the motion sensor detects I’ve entered. They’ve also got the two-button toilets [...]
Elfiq’s new LB-800E and LB-1600E are the greenest products in our product category to date – they have a 25W power supply which is not used at full capacity.
Considering the environmental impact of IT, this is good news. Considering that m…
I am one of those bad friends that never reply to FW: emails. You know, the ones that tell the recipient they are special and important. The kind that usually end with threats like seven years of bad luck if you fail to send it out to 20 of your bestest friends in 5 [...]