Reposted from Core77’s article: “Things That Look Like Other Things: “Mino” by Giovanni Tomasini” Young Italian designer  Giovanni Tomasini is pleased to present his latest project, the “Mino” garden gnome, a traditional lawn ornament made of compost:

The garden dwarf tradition is older than what is commonly believed. Originating in XVII century Germany, garden dwarfs were exported by an [...]

The Designers Accord Sustainability in 7 video series delivers a daily dose of design inspiration by today’s leading sustainability experts. Join in the conversation as they share 7 things every designer should consider when integrating sustainability into design practice. Is being creative really a virtue? Design educator and writer John Thackara stresses the urgency of our energy future [...]

The Designers Accord Sustainability in 7 video series delivers a daily dose of design inspiration by today’s leading sustainability experts. Join in the conversation as they share 7 things every designer should consider when integrating sustainability into design practice. In what he deems “probably the fastest introduction ever” to systems thinking, Nathan Shedroff introduces systems as a context [...]

The Designers Accord Sustainability in 7 video series delivers a daily dose of design inspiration by today’s leading sustainability experts. Join in the conversation as they share 7 things every designer should consider when integrating sustainability into design practice. In today’s Sustainability in 7 short, Wendy Jedlička offers sound advice on “leaving the campsite better than you found it.” [...]

The Designers Accord Sustainability in 7 video series delivers a daily dose of design inspiration by today’s leading sustainability experts. Join in the conversation as they share 7 things every designer should consider when integrating sustainability into design practice. Hunter Lovins kicks off Sustainability in 7 this week with by explaining her notion of Natural Capitalism, namely why sustainability [...]

The Designers Accord Sustainability in 7 video series delivers a daily dose of design inspiration by today’s leading sustainability experts. Join in the conversation as they share 7 things every designer should consider when integrating sustainability into design practice. Architect John Peterson kicks off our final (half-) week of Sustainability in 7 with a cleverly staged rundown of “seven [...]

The Designers Accord Sustainability in 7 video series delivers a daily dose of design inspiration by today’s leading sustainability experts. Join in the conversation as they share 7 things every designer should consider when integrating sustainability into design practice. Following Bill’s introduction to Cradle to Cradle design in theory and in practice, Dara O’Rourke offers some quick tips [...]

The Designers Accord Sustainability in 7 video series delivers a daily dose of design inspiration by today’s leading sustainability experts. Join in the conversation as they share 7 things every designer should consider when integrating sustainability into design practice. As the Chief Design Officer of one of the largest consumer goods producers in the world, Chris Hacker certainly [...]

The Designers Accord Sustainability in 7 video series delivers a daily dose of design inspiration by today’s leading sustainability experts. Join in the conversation as they share 7 things every designer should consider when integrating sustainability into design practice. In today’s episode of The Designers Accord Sustainability in 7 , Andrew Dent of global materials library and consultancy, Material Connexion reminds [...]

The Designers Accord Sustainability in 7 video series delivers a daily dose of design inspiration by today’s leading sustainability experts. Join in the conversation as they share 7 things every designer should consider when integrating sustainability into design practice. Fiona Bennie’s job is to look into the future and keep us posted on what’s in store for us in [...]

The Designers Accord Sustainability in 7 video series delivers a daily dose of design inspiration by today’s leading sustainability experts. Join in the conversation as they share 7 things every designer should consider when integrating sustainability into design practice. Gil Friend offers a few pointers on business as a platform for sustainability, sharing key insights such as: “You don’t [...]

The Designers Accord Sustainability in 7 video series delivers a daily dose of design inspiration by today’s leading sustainability experts. Join in the conversation as they share 7 things every designer should consider when integrating sustainability into design practice. William McDonough needs no introduction for anyone with an interest in environmental design: he’s been exploring sustainability through architectural [...]

Manhattan is an island flanked by two rivers, but as hot as the summers get, you’d never dream of swimming in either of them. The conventional wisdom is that they’re both polluted and, if the movies are to be believed, lined at the bottom with cement-shoe-wearing mob informers. That hasn’t stopped designers Dong-Ping Wong of Family and Archie [...]

The Designers Accord Sustainability in 7 video series delivers a daily dose of design inspiration by today’s leading sustainability experts. Join in the conversation as they share 7 things every designer should consider when integrating sustainability into design practice. In our second Friday edition of Sustainability in 7 , Autodesk’s Dawn Danby explores life-cycles thinking as a design principle, covering [...]

The Designers Accord Sustainability in 7 video series delivers a daily dose of design inspiration by today’s leading sustainability experts. Join in the conversation as they share 7 things every designer should consider when integrating sustainability into design practice. Today we kick off the Designers Accord Sustainability in 7 series with Janine Benyus’ introduction to Biomimicry. How does a [...]

The Designers Accord Sustainability in 7 video series delivers a daily dose of design inspiration by today’s leading sustainability experts. Join in the conversation as they share 7 things every designer should consider when integrating sustainability into design practice. In this Sustainability in 7 , Core77’s very own Allan Chochinov sets the record straight on seven common misconceptions about sustainability [...]

The Designers Accord Sustainability in 7 video series delivers a daily dose of design inspiration by today’s leading sustainability experts. Join in the conversation as they share 7 things every designer should consider when integrating sustainability into design practice. While the principles of sustainability apply to every discipline, the term is often reduced to shorthand for an eco-conscious, [...]

The Designers Accord Sustainability in 7 video series delivers a daily dose of design inspiration by today’s leading sustainability experts. Join in the conversation as they share 7 things every designer should consider when integrating sustainability into design practice. Alissa Walker remains true to her surname in this playful Friday edition of Sustainability in 7, in which she imparts [...]

For about two years I used an exercise ball (just the ball) as my main office chair. I eventually gave it up after discovering a couple of things: I have a tendency to defeat any ergonomic device over time. While I’d start my work sessions vigilantly paying attention to posture, as I became more engrossed in the [...]

An article in the Times entitled “ From the Pen of a Giant of Industrial Design ” looks at Brooks Stevens, a prominent industrial designer of the last century and one of the original nine founders, along with Raymond Loewy, of the IDSA. Stevens opened up his first design firm in the 1930s and went on to design [...]