Amsterdam Xclusive
10xAmsterdam – Xclusive Travel Guide, for the iPhone and iPod touch, featuring the best things to see and do in Amsterdam.
Fun and easy to use, this Xclusive Travel Guide includes ten pre-selected categories and many recommended listings, one-click phone contacts, email, websites, locations, maps, photos, searchable listings, postcards and more. Buy now or see the demo here
Indemann
Indemann
The 36 metre high interactive viewing tower, Indemann has been opened to the public. 10.000 visitors attended the opening party for the launch.
The LED media façade, that was developed in cooperation with GKD/AG4, will also have its first test run.
The project can be seen from the A4 motorway between Aachen and Cologne in Germany.
Marc Maurer [...]
Green School
Green School is located in Bali, Indonesia. The campus been created by master architects and designers, craftsmen and builders, landscape designers and gardeners using a blend of cutting-edge technology and traditional materials and methods. The result is a truly inspirational teaching and learning environment that stimulates critical thinking and creative problem solving.
Green School’s campus spans [...]
Dragonfly Urban Farmers
DRAGONFLY, A METABOLIC FARM FOR URBAN AGRICULTURE
2009 : 800 MILLION OF URBAN FARMERS FOR RESPONSIBLE ECO-CITIES
The world of fast-food and frozen food is over! The urban keen interest of the beginning of our Century turns toward the garden flat bringing back the countryside in our overcrowded cities fighting from now on for a community urban [...]
Silver is Green
Airstream, the retro designed silver bullet, has been green as long as it has been silver.
Airstreams are designed to spend time on the road, not in the landfills. As such, nearly 70% of all Airstream trailers ever produced are still on the road! While other products are designed to wear out, Airstreams are designed to [...]
The Ultimate Answer
So the ultimate question remains. Q: Do we on earth have enough resources and technological understanding to create a society of such abundance, that everything we have now could be available without a price tag, and without the need for submission through employment ?
Small Can Be Big
SmallCanBeBig.org is a new way to help based on a simple premise: give everyone a more direct, more personal, more local and more shared way to help those in need, and big things can happen. Here’s why:
The Truth about Money, Corruption, Power and our Future
If we choose to conform to the limitations of our present monetary-based economy, then it is likely that we will continue to live with its inevitable results: war, poverty, hunger, deprivation, crime, ignorance, stress, fear, and inequity. On the other hand, if we embrace the concept of a global resource-based economy , learn more about [...]
Venus Project: Redesigning our global culture
The Venus Project reflects the culmination of Jacque Fresco’s life work: the integration of the best of science and technology into a comprehensive plan for a new society based on human and environmental concern. It is a global vision of hope for the future of humankind in our technological age.The Venus Project is an organization [...]
iPad – ultimate designer home
Top New Zealand architect Andre Hodgskin created a sensation when he launched the BACHKIT™ in 2000, gaining acclaim in international design magazines. Andre has now developed – the iPAD™ – a fresh look at the concept of a simple but stylish lightweight kitset building.
Crate idea unfolds
Based in Wellington, New Zealand, architects at Atelierworkshop have created a transportable home from a shipping crate. The entire design is based on a modular structure that unfolds from the crate’s original form.
Celebrity Guitar Lessons
GarageBand ’09, the updated version of Apple’s popular software used by millions to play and record music, now gives budding musicians a fun new way to learn to play piano and guitar.
iPhone Colony – Sound Sculptures
Despite the event occurring during the largest rainfall within a 24 hour period for the entire year, a number of people turned up with iPhones to participate in the first Colony event.
Sprout: symbols to cultivate change
Savio Alphonso has created a visual language to communicate a simple yet effective message. Giant billboards, tasteful graffiti-style placement, posters and stickers are circulating the streets to open up valuable discussion and cultivate change.
Fijnd Your Own Way
ijgenwijs (a dutch word for ‘Your Own Way’) is a new store to open in the fashionable new Amsterdam district of ijburg.Just a short metro train ride from Amsterdam’s central station puts you right outside of this exclusive boutique for designer everything.Driving there is even easier, just exit the Amsterdam Ring at S114, go over [...]
Sign Language Dance Performance
China had completely raised the bar of any opening ceremony in the history of the Olympic Games on 08.08.08. Three weeks on, it was now the opportunity for the world to once again experience a spectacular opening ceremony. Dressed in white gowns, girls with hearing impairments perform a dance using sign language during the Opening [...]
The Art of Bike Racks
David Byrne and the New York City Department of Transportation, in conjunction with New York art gallery PaceWildenstein, have unveiled nine unique bicycle racks designed by DB and installed in various locations throughout Manhattan and Brooklyn.
Google Chrome
At Google, they have a saying: “launch early and iterate.” While this approach is usually limited to their engineers, it apparently applies to the mailroom as well! As you may have read in the blogosphere, they hit “send” a bit early on a comic book introducing their new open source browser, Google Chrome. As they [...]
Daniel Eatock
Daniel Eatock is an artist and graphic designer who lives and works in the East end of London. After graduating from the Royal College of Art in 1998 he spent a short time in the US working at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Upon his return to London Eatock launched Foundation 33, which he [...]
Beijing 2008 Olympic Stadium illuminated
As the main stadium of the Beijing Olympic Games, China’s eye-catching National Stadium, also known as the “Bird’s Nest,” is expecting the moment when the sacred flame burns bright within its walls, representing the honor of the Chinese people.
iPhone 3G with GPS, App Store + More
The long wait is over. The iPhone 3G is finally here. iPhone 3G is available in more than 70 countries, beginning with customer availability in 22 countries—Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and the US—from July 11.
Walls of Green
Patrick Blanc – The Vertical Garden
The Vertical Garden (above left pic), conceived by Patrick Blanc relies on a new way to grow plants without soil.The Vertical Garden can be implimented outdoor or indoor, in any climatic environment. The plant species selection is mainly set according to the pre-existing conditions.
MyFarm is your farm
MyFarm is a decentralized urban farm. They grow vegetables in backyard gardens throughout the city. By increasing local food production MyFarm is creating a secure and sustainable food system. Using organic practices we strive to grow the best tasting most nutritious vegetables.
Complete Meier
From the early days as a member of the New York Five, Richard Meier has been a central figure in contemporary architecture in the United States. With the Getty Center and more recent buildings such as the Jubilee Church in Rome, the New Yorker has cemented his reputation as a truly international figure who [...]
