Hasta La Ideas

pSix finalists have been chosen in Levi Strauss’ A HREF=”http://www.levistrauss.com/blogs/clothes-dryers-beware” Care to Air Design Challenge/A, which seeks clever and eco-friendly ways to dry clothes. The competition was formed after “a lifecycle assessment of a pair of Levi’s 501 jeans revealed that, on average, almost 60% of the climate impact comes during the consumer phase. Nearly 80% of that is due to the energy-intensive method chosen for drying.”/p

pThree of the finalists were chosen by A HREF=”http://www.myoocreate.com/” Myoo Create/A, the crowdsourcing company collaborating on the contest, and three were chosen by Levi’s. Our two faves both feature space-saving wall-mounted designs for clothing racks:/p

pThe simple A HREF=”http://www.myoocreate.com/challenges/care-to-air-design-challenge/entries/458″ Evaporation Station/A, by designer Jeff M., looks pleasant enough folded flat, and fans out to hang what we’re guessing would be a single person’s small-batch laundry load. /p

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pThe A HREF=”http://www.myoocreate.com/challenges/care-to-air-design-challenge/entries/496″ Nothing is What It Seems/A rack, by screenname Chill, does the Evaporation Station one better by acting as a wall-mounted painting frame until it deploys. It also seems to offer a good deal more hanging area, and if we had to pick one–heck, if I could buy one–it’d be this./p

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pCheck out the rest of the finalists A HREF=”http://www.levistrauss.com/blogs/clothes-dryers-beware” here/A.br /
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