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Dezeen podcast: in this podcast for the Design Museum in London architect David Chipperfield talks about an exhibition of his work, which opened at the museum this week. (more…)

There’s just a couple more weeks to register for the Opportunity Green Business Conference, taking place on November 7th and 8th in Los Angeles. The conference aims to inspire “a collaborative culture of new thinking” and “facilitate the movement to transform business for good” by providing “unprecedented approaches to sustainability that are bankable and exciting.”

Sounds pretty good, right?

Even better is the unbelievable speaker list, including Michael Hopkins, the editor-in-chief of the MIT Sloan Management Review; Yves Behar, founder of fuseproject; Adam Lowry, founder of Method; and Helen Walters, editor of Innovation & Design at Business Week.

To supplement the conference, Opportunity Green is running the OG|25 competition, which will highlight the best of innovative green startups. And, just added, is the Tour de OG, a 5 day bike ride directly preceding the event. The ride will raise awareness about green business, and all participants will receive organic meals, campsites and lodging, promotional bike accessories and discounted attendee registration for the conference.

More information and registration guidelines here.

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by Julie Wolfson

From monsters with solid brass mouths to three headed shark-man-bunny creatures, the handmade creations of Blamo mix elements of designer toys, art and craft. San Francisco-based designer Spencer Hansen, forms Blamo toys from cast solid brass, leather, hand carved solid sugar wood and hand-painted resin.

In October and November, several new characters will make their Blamoville debut.

Hansen made only twelve of the new character “Three Headed Creature,” which changes from shark teeth to a winged double head to a man with bunny ears. On 24 October 2009, the remaining seven will be sold on the Blamo website.

Coming up 8-13 November 8th and 13th in San Francisco, a show curated by Zombiemonkie will feature Spencer Hansen designs alongside toys by many other artists including Ben Burke, Nice Collective, Monster Decay, Lucien Shapiro, and Tony Blanchard. At the show’s opening, Blamo will release an edition of 10 “Albino Billys.”

Most Blamo toys range from $100-$175.

See more images after the jump.

Un mélange entre le concept de “live video painting” et le graffiti électronique, avec ces rouleaux de peinture lumineuse développés par le collectif SweatShoppe. Le rouleau n’applique aucune peinture sur le mur, car il est constitué de LED vertes. A découvrir dans la suite.

Une belle vidéo sans post-production réalisée au Queens et à Manhattan, grâce à l’utilisation d’un projecteur qui suit la position du rouleau.

Previously on Fubiz

• Axa – Evolution
• Lego Kitchen
• Umarmung

Living in Japan was expensive, and I made few major purchases during the year I spent there. I had a pretty cool Muji bicycle that I really wanted to bring back to the ‘States with me, but I couldn’t see it making a transpacific journey unscathed, and I sold it before my return, sadly.

I wish I’d had an AeroTech Evolution bicycle case back then. It’s designed to protect your (dismantled) bicycle in the cargo hold of an airplane with its vacuum-formed ABS shell, combined with velcro straps and strategically-placed foam tubing. Even better, it’s got a lifetime warranty that’s valid all over the world.

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