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While the image above depicts a modern and sleek interior space, you’d be surprised to know that the other side of the wall carries an aesthetic debauchery more in line with that of Sweeney Todd. An incredible installation piece created by a team of Mexico’s hottest designers, Diseño Piloto compiles an array of irregular material offcuts abandoned by furniture companies, and turns them into compact modules that can be joined to create furniture , walls and even entire rooms. Read the rest of Modules Made from Material Waste Form Furniture, Walls and Rooms http://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: “green furniture” , “sustainable furniture” , Andrés Altesor , Antonio Gurrola , Asteroide B-612 , Diseño Piloto , Emiliano Godoy , Environmental Balances and Regenerative Design , Jimena …

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Modules Made from Material Waste Form Furniture, Walls and Rooms

Designboom tipped us off to Droog ’s recently released “Darwin Chair” designed by new york-based graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister . The chair consists of a cantilever base topped with a pad of 200 different sheets of printed tyvek “paper”. The chair “evolves” each time someone decides to either turn over the top sheet, showcasing the fresh sheet underneath. As the layers are turned over, the chair will begin to provide an added headrest, and once sheets are soiled they can be torn off for recycling. Read the rest of Brilliant Paper Chair Transforms With the Turn of a Page http://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Darwin Chair , droog , dutch , eco design , green design , New York…

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Brilliant Paper Chair Transforms With the Turn of a Page

Nestled between towering Loblolly pines on Taylors Island, Maryland, the gorgeous Loblolly House is a testament to design genius.  The brain child of architectural firm KieranTimberlake , the 2,200 sq. foot Loblolly House was constructed using a component-based  prefab “kit-of-parts” that were created to be unbolted and rebuilt in different configurations for a different site or house. By using building information modeling (BIM), the architects were able to streamline the design-build process. Thousands of parts were collapsed and integrated into a few dozen panels and blocks that slid into an aluminum frame set on wooden pylons. Consisting of 70 percent prefabricated components, the house was assembled mostly with a wrench and lifted into place on-site and took just six weeks to build. For a more detailed view of the construction, KieranTimberlake put together a full scale critical detail…

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Loblolly House – Not Your Parents Pre-Fab Home

Japanese music has been a big part of my life for well over a decade along side Japanese animation which became a solid factor for me enjoying the music in the opening and ending themes.

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Japanese Music Design Showcase | nenuno creative

Companies are using so-called innovation camps to come up with $100 million ideas. Paul Sloane reports from Amdocs’ recent event

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Inside a Corporate Innovation Camp

A corporation’s logo doesn’t just tell you about the company.  It tells you about the world the company is living in and how this company is trying to fit in with that world.  Sometimes a logo change can hit the nail on the head…other times it can reveal exactly how dated and hopelessly lost the company really is.  Here’s a look at ten corporate logos, then and now. Pepsi Then Pepsi’s original logo does exactly what it’s supposed to do:  remind you of Coca-Cola.  It’s red, swirly and old-timey looking, just like the Coca-Cola logo.  But then again, it was the 1800s….I think they only knew how to write things in swirly fonts.  Print probably hadn’t been invented yet. Pepsi …

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Logo Design Then and Now: Corporate America