As part of a post on Urban Farming, Coolhunting.com covered these great tools by design students Mirko Ihirg and Olli Hirvonen. These are part of a “starter kit concept of five hand tools for urban farming and a backpack to transport them.” As urban farming becomes less of a conceptual speculation and more of a [...]
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ADzero Bamboo Phone
After the simplicity of John’s Phone, I thought it would be interesting to post this concept device by ADzero, which sees an Android phone cladded in solid bamboo. There are loads of wooden consumer goods on the market at the moment – from Shwood sunglasses to WeWood watches and more – so it seeing this [...]
Living Christmas Ornaments
Very seldom do I ever see anything Christmas-related without shuddering. These living ornaments, however, are very much the exception to this somewhat grinch-like rule. Made by the marvelously-named Flora Grubb, an American florist, they are real succulent plants repurposed as bio-ornaments for hanging on a Christmas Tree. Her website enthuses: These amazing cuttings will last [...]
Wilder Quarterly
Wilder Quarterly is a gardening magazine for the young creative type. With a photographic style that is more Kinfolk than Garden and Home, the publication looks at the hobby in a different way to appeal to a new generation of horticultural ingenues. It describes itself as “a publication for people enthralled by the natural world” [...]
A Growing Billboard for Cape Town
Living or “green” billboards are popping up all over the place (if you’ll excuse the pun). Coke did it in Singapore with carbon-dioxide eating plants, and an enormous petri dish was created in Toronto to promote the movie Contagion. What’s exciting about this one is that it’s in South Africa. Inhabitat explains: You’d think that [...]
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