We recently received a copy of the 2010 Think Green Calendar by EIGA, a design firm out of Germany. The calendar shows contemporary “Eco-typography” and special “green works” of designers from various disciplines worldwide. “Think Green!” creates a stimulating visual inventory of the fusion of ecology and design. For more on the Think Green Calendar you know what to do.
Image by David Oberholtzer:
Images by designers across the globe:
Photo from Flickr user PghFun1
PNC’s green wall towers at nearly 2,400 in square feet which is the size of two tennis courts. Wow!
According to a post over at Forecast Earth, the idea is catching on.
Like green roofs—their perpendicular counterparts—green walls are covered in vegetation and provide the benefits of natural insulation and removal of air pollutants. PNC, which provides banking and wealth management services, estimates it will be 25 percent cooler behind the wall than the ambient summer temperatures.
The PNC wall features more than 15,000 ferns, sedums, brass buttons and other plants that create a swirling pattern of varying hues of green above the company’s logo. They are divided among hundreds of 2-by-2-foot aluminum panels that were anchored onto the building’s frame after part of the granite facade was removed.
Joanne Westphal, a landscape architecture professor at Michigan State University and part of the school’s Green Roof Research Program, states that: “the biggest benefit to green walls is their ability to help cool buildings through shading. They also help capture rainwater and release it more slowly into the atmosphere and stormwater systems.
Creative Review is always trying new cover concepts. The February Issue is no different with the magazine packaged in a compostable bag. An added twist is that they added a few tomato seeds so the subscriber can grow their own tomatoes using the compostable bag. Instructions are on the back. Happy gardening.
Instructions on how to grow tomatoes:
The 2010 Greener Gadgets Conference will be in full swing come the end of February. The image above is “The Power Hog” one of the highlights from last years conference. Find out more details here.
I’m sure you’ve noticed by now that we’ve got a fresh new look for the blog. After a lot of coding, tweaking and generally making a mess of CSS, I’ve managed to get it to look half-decent (let me know what you think of it!) It still remains a work-in-progress. The goal of this redesign was to make it easier to get around and add some more color. After all, you know we’re suckers for color!
Last but not least, our large header incorporates the work of a featured artist. We’ll be featuring different artists in that space and rotating them over time to keep things interesting. This isn’t a sponsored spot, but rather a testament to our support of great artists. Our first feature is of the brilliant and witty Simon Oxley, one of our all-time favorites.
Enjoy!
I swung by the 381 RedBull gallery on the weekend to check out the first event for Spread The Word’s ‘Unbook’. Here’s a few photos to see what it’s all about.
Started off with a short presentation from The Movement to explain what we were doing there.
Then we contributed ideas and questions to the boards surrounding the gallery.
And then we drank. Well, I guess we were drinking the whole time. But we did afterwards too…
Photos thanks to Spread The Word. Learn more about the ‘Unbook’ here, and check out the RedBull 381 Project here.
An open call to participate in the writing of a book on social change for designers, a scrap book of sorts that is a work in progress by the design community. Read all about the event here
Want to know the top design blogs according to Alexa? Well, we’ve compiled all 90 of them. I have no clue how they come up with these rankings, but hey, these are great sites to check out and bookmark! (ReubenMiller ranks 24 – not bad.)
1. Treehugger
2. MoCo Loco
3. Inhabitat
4. Cool Hunting
6. NOTCOT
10. Design You Trust
12. Swissmiss
13. Cribcandy
14. Josh Spear
15. Design Observer
16. Positive Space
17. Hawksmont
18. Oh Joy!
19. It’s Nice That
20. Functioning Form
21. The Ad Mad
22. Sub-Studio
24. Reuben Miller
27. Poppytalk
28. Print Pattern
29. 2Modern
30. Design Sojourn
31. Roadside Scholar
32. Idealist
33. Curiobot
34. Design Notes
36. Land Living
37. Designers Block
38. Decor8
39. Architectradure
40. Design Crack
41. Absolutely Beautiful Things
42. Design Sponge
43. Serial Consign
44. Elit Alice
46. Twenty1f
47. 30gms
49. Oh My So Cute
50. Cuteable
51. Rolling Rains
52. Style Court
53. Scoutie Girl
55. Bookmarkd
56. Redsil
57. Push A Pixel
59. DesignTaleStudio
61. Trend Insights
62. Funfurde
63. 49 Sparks
64. Studio469
65. Neo Nomad
66. ImedaGoze
68. LedLightRay
69. PagePlane
71. Raven’s Nest
72. Design Scout
73. Rebang
74. Reverseorbit
75. Inert Greymatter
76. Trendmatter
77. Design Boston
81. Greenwix
82. Old Glutton
83. Blog Sessions
85. Dog Opus
86. Rag and Bone
88. Lena Corwin
89. Obsidian Dawn
90. All the Best
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