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Lebanese designers Hoda Baroudi and Maria Hibr of Bokja have created ten pieces for The Quirico Company featuring vintage furniture covered in antique fabrics. (more…)

Designer-about-town and our close personal pal Yves Behar has long been after the world to clean itself up and go sustainable. Now he’s taken it upon himself to go all the way to our skivvies. Dezeen has the goods on Behar’s firm fuseproject designing a collection of sustainable underwear for Jeff Denby and Jason Kibbley‘s newly created Bay Area-based online retailer PACT. What’s sustainable about them? Well, let’s ignore the illustrations on them relating to different non-profit organizations or the donations they make with each purchase (that stuff’s just perks, not really sustainability), the unmentionables are made from organic cotton and they come shipped in green packaging (this post has been difficult to write, given these unavoidable puns). And should you live in NY and buy a pair, now you can have a completely Behar-involved night of scandal, after you pick up some of the condoms he designed last year.

“In building PACT, we re-thought everything about the way underwear is made and marketed,” said Behar. “We’re not doing anything artificial or superficial, not with the body, not with the packaging and not with our partnerships. Our vision is to unite fashion and design with doing good in an authentic way, building a company that truly embodies 21st century needs, showing a new way for businesses to operate in the future.”

We should add that we know one former editor who is likely upset that Behar didn’t go so far as to model his own new product. Sorry, Alissa. At least you’ll always have that time you saw him with his shirt off.

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This week’s Workspace of the Week is BayAreaBaw’s peripherally intense office:

This is an amazing office and its owner did a terrific job describing it in the photo’s notes:

This home office of mine has been evolving for about six years, with a list of equipment that currently includes:

• 3 printers (laser, portable inkjet & label)
• 2 external backup drives (USB & Firewire)
• LightScribe CD/DVD Burner
• 2 scanners (ScanSnap & Epson)
• tape deck, turntable & sound system
• EyeTV digital television tuner
• Two 7-port USB hubs
• 20″ external monitor
• MacBook
• wireless phone
• cell phone, Bluetooth & Palm chargers

My challenge has been how to arrange so much gear in a small space without all of it getting in my way, both physically and aesthetically, and especially how to hide all those cables. At last count there are 21 electrical connections, along with about 15 other USB, Firewire, and charger cables.

Truly impressive, BayAreaBaw. Thank you for your submission!

Want to have your own workspace featured in Workspace of the Week? Submit a picture to the Unclutterer flickr pool. Check it out because we have a nice little community brewing there. Also, don’t forget that workspaces aren’t just desks. If you’re a cook, it’s a kitchen; if you’re a carpenter, it’s your workbench.

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Digital Forming is a new London-based company that will allow designers to create products on the internet that customers can customise online and then buy.

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