Trench Coat Bags -> Ouno Design

June 18, 2009, at 6:00 am

It’s great to see recycled products being made from just about everything and anything these days. These ‘Trench Coat Bags’ created by Ouno Design caught my eye the other day while browsing products on Etsy. It’s such a clever use for such an iconic style from our past. More information below from the Ouno website:

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Greenpeace -> Black Pixel Project

June 4, 2009, at 5:58 am

From what I have read and can gather about this Greenpeace project from their nicely designed website, the goal is to save massive amounts of energy by installing one black pixel on every tube and plasma monitor in the world. Greenpeace estimates a savings of thousands of watts of energy per day. It sounds like [...]

Type Makes Good Home -> Typenesting

April 30, 2009, at 6:09 am

I have seen mention of this site typenesting.tumblr.com spread across the internet pretty quickly in the past week. Lot’s of design blogs and typography blogs have picked it up. The website shows many different examples of birds that have set up homes in outdoor signage. I’m posting this because it makes me wonder -> If [...]

What is Waste? -> New Belgium Brewing co.

April 23, 2009, at 11:07 am

New Belgium Brewing from whatis waste on Vimeo.

I found this great site http://www.whatiswaste.com/ while looking for blog topics for Earth Day this past week. The site is all about innovative companies from all over that are not just “talking the talk” of being green and sustainable but also “walking the walk” and coming up with [...]