Hasta La Ideas

The Cologne International Design Festival consists of two main (unfortunately competing rather than collaborating) events: The IMM Furniture Show and the Passagen – a show program with a great number of exhibitions in the main fair as well as galleries, show rooms, bars and shops across the city.

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Teach ’em young! The Power-Hog power consumption metering piggy bank is designed “to sensitize kids to energy cost associated with running electronics devices.” Plug the tail into an outlet and a device into the snout. Then have your kids feed in a coin to meter out 30 minutes of use.

Yowza. Designed by Mathieu Zastawny, Mansour Ourasanah, Tom Dooley, Peter Byar, Elysa Soffer, and Mathieu Turpault, we understand the temptation to target this at kids, but what about upping the ante for grown-ups? Wanna watch the entire Thursday night lineup on NBC? Well, it’ll cost ya. And how about running that blow dryer? Hmm, we’ll just use a towel, thanks.

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Hoarding is a topic that we at Unclutterer feel should be part of the uncluttering conversation. Hoarding is a serious medical condition, usually linked to obsessive compulsive disorder, which can take over someone’s life and living space.

The other day, I discovered the website Hoardhouse. It is a project being assembled by a group of journalism students at Columbia University. From the their website:

All three of the authors are very curious about the issue of hoarding and how it impacts the lives of New York City residents.

This project will explore the hoarders, psychologists, social workers, and cleanup specialists for whom hoarding is a defining phenomenon.

The final version of the site will be live by March 23, 2009.

While readers of Unclutterer may be familiar with hoarding, it is a psychological ailment that still isn’t understood by much of the general public. It is encouraging to see these journalism students working to increase public awareness about the disorder’s damaging effects.

If you or someone you know struggles with compulsive hoarding, please try and get help from the following resources:

• OC Foundation
• Squalor Survivors
• Children of Hoarders

Once again, hoarding is a disorder that should be treated by a licensed medical professional.

Think Frank Gehry meets Michael Dell! The Recompute Sustainable Desktop Computer submitted by Brenden Macaluso forgoes the typical injection-molded plastic housing in favor of a layup of corrugated cardboard die-cut slices. Here’s the pitch:

Rather than making a large tower constructed from numerous materials (ABS plastic, aluminum, steel, etc.), hundreds of manufacturing processes, and dozens of individual components, the Recompute case is made of corrugated cardboard (recyclable and renewable). There are four low-impact manufacturing processes to assemble Recompute: Die cutting, gluing (with non-toxic white glue), printing and electronic assembly. Recompute uses only three major electronic components: A motherboard with processor & memory, power supply, and a hard drive.

Worried that it’ll get too hot in there? Brenden’s got a snappy answer for you: “The corrugation works as the ventilation for Recompute.” Cleh-ver.

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Communication Designer
Facebook
Palo Alto, California

As a Facebook designer, you can fundamentally affect people’s lives in a real and meaningful way. In turn, we ensure you have everything you need to focus on this mission and be invested in its success – an equity stake in the company, your dream machine set up, even gourmet meals served 3 times a day.

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