‘reduce reuse recycle’ Archives
Top 10 posts on mixingreality.com : February to March »
Image : Joan Snyder from Women Make Lists People love lists. Lists tell us where we stand, if only in our heads, and if only for the moment. So here is our first list of the top posts from the last month. If you have been here before, many thanks for helping get mixing reality off to a roaring start. If this is your first time, take a [...]
Picture of the Day : Read by Isaac Salazar »
It's Sunday, and here's the plan : Isaac Salazar folds and manually cuts individual pages of old books to beautiful effect. via more here
Picture of the Day : London bikes »
All over London are racks and racks of bicycles sponsored by Barclays Bank. Love the idea...but have to ask...where are the helmets...it is London afterall...and traffic here...well, let's just say, it's not bike inviting!
Trend spot : Convertible clothing a sustainable idea »
Fashion week continues in London this week, where we are spending some time looking at trends and culture. Convertible clothing is one we see with legs. We like the idea, and with the continuing economy (read : money tight), conspicuous consumption a little less conspicuous, perhaps this is a design whose time has come to stay for a bit [...]
The Purple List : How can we help the sustainable »
My friend Piers Fawkes is asking a great question to be taken to TED and the TEDActiveProjects. Piers is the founder and editor in chief of PSFK, I'd like to give him informed feedback, and I know lots of people in this space. Mixing Reality gets significant traffic from StumbleUpon and the community of sustainability experts I've been [...]
APC’s Jean Touitou’s Dishes Celebrity »
As Fashion Week continues in NYC, there is always the swirl of what's hot, or not, or who said what... Jean Touitou of APC was no exception in his expressions to Hint: "I do not belong to celebrity culture. If people only knew what actresses are paid to sit in the front row at the shows in Milan or Paris, they would want to kill somebody. If [...]
Tom Price Designs the PP tube #2 chair »
Nice reuse idea from British designer Tom Price. The 'PP tube 2 chair', part of Price's 'meltdown series'. He experiments using mundane plastic products, processing them to create a collection of sculptural seating. There are no other parts, only the melted plastic which molds to the shape of the seating. via
