Another beautiful product (soon to be released) from KithKin‘s “Some Rights Reserved” open-source design collection is Matthew Appleton’s “Afterlife” poster – it builds on the growing trend of product dissections for good by depicting the relative geometric footprint of a printer’s many parts as compared to a pencil. The project claims to show how complex […]
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opportunity carbon cost
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collaborative conscience
Yesterday I had the pleasure of meeting Clay Ward, founder of thoughtandmemory.org, an on-line resource for tracking supply chains and developing user-generated ratings of companies based on social and environmental performance. The site is built off a hefty back-end where anyone can contribute reviews of companies big and small, and the reviews get ranked by […]
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material memory
in 2005 filmmaker bilge sehir presented a hoax thought experiment called ‘vases sonores‘ (sonorous vases) which hypothesized that the sounds occurring during the etching of ancient pottery were recorded by the ceramic itself as it spun on the wheel, and they could be played back to hear – albeit faintly – the voices of the […]
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sad toy story
It’s a rainy first day of Spring here in Boston, a good time to watch Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior’s video on working conditions in the Hung Hing factory in Shenzhen.
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webs of influence
I’ve been interested in depictions of the evolution of ideas and cultural movements since posting about Timothy Stotz’s amazingly complex evolutionary diagram of 500 years of art. Here are some other inspiring diagrams of evolution, culminating in the genealogy of Linux distribution, which is the clearest and most accurate because it’s built in to the […]
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renewable packaging
i just picked up this balinesian sea salt packaged in a coconut at whole foods because i couldn’t resist the packaging design (or lack thereof). never mind the idea of shipping salt, let alone from bali. the coconut packaging has three distinct advantages over the plastic, metal foil and paper that the other foods are […]
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super-traceability
in its pursuit of lightning-fast food delivery domino’s has introduced a web-based pizza tracking tool that details the progress of your pie on its half-hour journey to your house. as we continue to expect the ever-finer granularity of traceability for products, is this the direction to push it? maybe instead of this relatively useless innovation […]
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spoiled spud, crack-proof egg & co
sensor wireless inc. makes replicas of products such as potatoes or eggs (left) and glass bottles (right) outfitted with sensors (probably accelerometers) so that manufacturers can track damage to the product along the assembly line in real-time on PDAs. i first learned about the smart spud ™ while visiting frito-lay, because the conveyor belts and […]
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