A Brazilian artist by the name of Henrique Oliveira has been creating organic shapes out of scrap wood that began to peel off of a fence by his home. The type of wood used called Tapumes (in Portuguese) is pretty common in Brazil and is pretty useless after a construction site is finished. Henrique Oliveira creates swirling and bulging organic shapes using these wood peel scraps. His process involves creating a PVC pipe underframe structure to which he attaches the wood peels. View more work at his website here. Recently he has been featured in the Contemporary Art Center in New Orleans in which he created clouds of pillows and mattresses collected after Katrina. More pictures after the jump.
This entry was written by , posted on April 17, 2009 at 11:19 pm, filed under Art, Eco-Friendly and tagged Art, Eco-Friendly, Henrique Oliveira. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
There is this design group/furniture company called Cardboardesign which makes everything out of cardboard (recycled). They have some pretty cool designs and even cooler advertisement. Check out the adverts below and visit there site here.
This entry was written by , posted on April 16, 2009 at 5:33 pm, filed under Eco-Friendly and tagged cardboardesign, Eco-Friendly. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
Ok so, we’re all for new EVs (electric vehicles) that can move us cleaner and with less energy so check this one out.
Project P.U.M.A (which stands for Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility), is effectively an enclosed scooter capable of achieving speeds of around 35 miles per hour, for a maximum distance of roughly 35 miles per charge.
P.U.M.A uses technology developed for the Segway personal vehicle, originally designed by Dean Kamen. This allows the vehicle to operate using two wheels only, though the vehicles has been fitted with training wheels which are quite helpful when stopping. GM hopes to convince a number of cities of colleges to set up P.U.M.A travel lanes. The vehicles are intended to drive automatically — almost by themselves — allowing human passengers to relax and sit back while their P.U.M.A navigates traffic. They are equipped with a wireless system to allow for easy navigation, and avoid traffic congestion.
If GM and Segway are serious about these things and their “eco-friendly” attempt I think it would be beneficial to make the seats out of recycled materials as well as anything else that can be adapted in that manner.
This entry was written by , posted on April 7, 2009 at 4:17 pm, filed under Eco-Friendly and tagged Eco-Friendly, EV (electric vehicle), GM, Segway. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.