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Amazing Bookshelves. Our house is tiny and it's got zero storage areas. On the other hand, I've got tons of books. It's tough. Most of my belongings are still at my parent's place. So, most days I'm daydreaming about installing bookshelves around our place. I would love to have them everywhere: the living room, the tv room, our master bedroom. I find them a lovely way to accesorize and add interest to any space. So today's Eye Candy is on bookshelves. What a beautiful way to showcase books in the living room! Notice the cute little wooden branch? Sooooo practical! Now that's cool! Again with the tree theme. A subtle change in the branch style. These are flexi tubes... Now that's what I'm talking about! Which one's your favorite? Sassafras on imgfave. Freshly Picked.

Vertical Farms. The current 3.3 billion global urban population is expected to grow to 5 billion by 2025... Today our agricultural footprint is the size of South America...what will it be tomorrow... Source EDITT Tower (“Ecological Design In The Tropics”) is being built in Singapore with the financial support of the National University. The 26 story tower will have over half its surface area covered by organic local vegetation. Solar panels will generate up to 40% of the building’s energy demands, and human waste will also be converted into an energy source via an on-site bio-gas facility. The Architecture firm TR Hamzah & Yeang is constructing the building using recycled and recyclable materials when possible! Source Mithun Architects in Seattle designed a "Center for Urban Agriculture" -- an integration of crops and livestock onto a 7.2 acre urban plot.

Buckminster Fuller Challenge Clepsydra Urban Farm by Bruno Viganò & Florencia Costa. Source An Urban Garden. Source Source Source Source Source Source Source 1. .: NOA DESIGN :. Online Shop ENGLISH SUMMER rain cloud necklace. Bread Bag Tags + Power Strip = Easy Identification. Decorative Accents, Home Accents, Whimsical Home Decor. Recycle project no. 15 - tealight holder. I don't know what it is but some of my project ideas come just as I'm about to drift off to sleep. The funny thing is that now that I've realized this, I look forward to those minutes of free-for-all thinking and it makes me go to bed sooner than I normally would. I'm a night owl at heart so this helps me a lot.

This small project is one of the ones that came about in one of my 'pre-sleep' sessions. I would be happier with the design if the paper were flush with the votive. Fred & Friends » Home. DIY $5 Flower Vase! Geraldine's Bowls + Last Sunday. Bottle Cap Sharpener by Yuchen Liu. Bottle O’ Shavings Designers, parents and anyone with a creative mind will love this Bottle Cap Sharpener. It’s a simple contraption, a sharpener fixed into a bottle cap so that it screws on top of an empty bottle. Sharpen your pencils and collect the shavings. Great way to reuse a plastic bottle. Designers and creative minds will love for the artistic value this raw material will create. I can already picture myself using colorful shavings for my little girl’s next art project. Designer: Yuchen Liu. Kitchens And Appliances Of The Future - Announcing The Top 25 Entries of Electrolux Design Lab 2010.

The Top 25 Entries of Electrolux Design Lab 2010 It’s not always easy to predict the future. For its 2010 competition, Electrolux Design Lab went with the theme: The 2nd Space Age; this essentially translating to designing a home environment for the year 2050, when 74% of the global population are predicted to live in urban areas. Student designers had to predict how people will prepare and store food, wash clothes, and do dishes. Quite a task but plenty of surprises from across the globe! Here are the Finalist 25, the countdown has begun! Before I give you the randomly listed 25 designs, here’s a bit of background on the theme: The idea is to design an appliance or a suite of appliances that will help combat the space crunch, limited resources plus advocate energy savings at the same time. 25) A- Laundry: Community Laundry Concept by Kai Wai Lee A communal laundry for the entire apartment block!

24) Bio Robot Refrigerator by Yuriy Dmitriev 22) Bx7 Preparation Unit by Losif Mihailo. Pretty Loaded - a preloader museum curated by Big Spaceship. Imaginative Package Designs - Design. Imaginative Package Designs Packaging is a very important marketing strategy to glamorize a product in order to attract the consumer's attention.

Often however, packaging can be neglected by business. Here I have compiled a selection of beautiful packaging designs, some conceptual and some that made it to the shelves but all great examples of the designer going the extra mile to ensure that all important first impression is a positive one. Enjoyed This? Check Out - More Imaginative Package Designs. Vertical Home Gardens: Modular Stacking Green Wall System. Dazzled by dangling gardens, but wish you could have one of your own? This neat and simple system of stackable modules makes it easy to create indoor or outdoor garden ‘plots’, hung from walls or built up from floors, window ledges and deck railings. The rather minimalist black and white (though also green) polypropylene plastic ‘pots’ hide a system that both retains moisture but keeps plants lower down from becoming over-watered, by draining excess liquid directly down to a storage trough in the base.

The material itself within these Minigardens is designed not to leach toxins into your soil or plants, but is a smooth synthetic that can be more easily cleaned. Kits come in various sizes with differing numbers of trays, all of which can be stacked, suspended and hung in various ways. Not bad for under $100 (at gardening stores and plant websites in the UK). “Minigarden is perfect for building a small living wall or simply combine together to create a large vertical garden. Cool Bathroom: Hot Water-Saving Shower, Sink & Toilet Set. Leaving the water running while it warms up is a wasteful habit, but what is the alternative? Taking a cold shower? Talk about a rude awakening. This idea contains a water-saving solution that should really make its way into more bathroom interiors. This award-winning designer layout by Frank Guo features a space-dividing partition that doubles as a holding tank for water warming up while you wait to hop into the shower.

The stored water is later used for washing your hands or flushing the toilet, rather than simply spiraling down the drain though the pipes and straight into the city sewer system. Being visibly held within an elegant glass container, the liquid-storing unit doubles as a partial room divider and decorative accent piece while letting you know how much water you have stored up for other uses. Paper Cut Skeleton Key. Yes, I do love the mystery of an antique key... hmm, what did it unlock and who was the owner? It's no surprise then, that I would gravitate toward this lovely-in-its-simplicity greeting card. Nastasya and Zdrok operate a small paper cutting studio in Kiev, Ukraine where they make a variety of cards and art pieces by hand, both commercial and custom.

Visit their Etsy shop, Mimimi Cards, to see more of their elegant designs. It hasn't been open very long at all, but is already proving to be quite popular. Rachel Pfeffer Designs - Metal Whimsy Abounds! - Epheriell Designs. By Jess, on February 24th, 2011 Hello lovely reader! Thanks so much for popping by... if you enjoy your stay you might like to subscribe to my RSS feed . I am in love! How amazingly amazing is the work of Rachel Pfeffer ? Bianca Chang - Sculptured Typography. If you love paper and happen to be in Sydney, Australia next week, you're in luck! The A4 Paper Festival, a series of installations, workshops and lectures presented by the The Paper Convention Collective, will be held at The Paper Mill and runs May 31st through June 5th.

Designer and paper artist, Bianca Chang, is a workshop leader. I would so enjoy learning to create one of the incredibly precise typography sculptures that are her hallmark. Each letter is composed of a stack of paper sheets... 180 make up the perfect O you see above, for example. Even if you can't be in Sydney, you don't have to miss out entirely - click here for a short video on Behance that shows Bianca at work. Edited to add: Bianca's new "making of' video can be seen here.

Egg cup from a bent fork. 1) An old bent fork, throw it away… 2) …but wait, it’s an egg cup holder. 3) It makes your eggs even sunnier! So here’s my latest upcycling craft project, a simple, yet attractive DIY upcycled fork egg cup made from a repurposed fork. I got the idea after coming across a coat hanger made from a bent fork – I wondered if something more intricate (but still useful) could be made from bending a fork, this was the result. In many regards it’s a very simple thing to make, however, I really struggled with the fork I had chosen – it was like trying to bend an iron bar!

How to make your own DIY upcycled fork egg cup I have provided hand drawn instructions below, use it as a guide, if you have a well stocked workshop you may well find a better way to bend the fork. Please note: The ideal fork will have long tines (able to cradle an egg) and a handle long enough to form a stable base. Download instructions› [display_adsense ad_type="300x250"] Wedding Rings Created by Sound from Sakurako Shimizu. Thought of the artist knows no boundaries. It would seem that we have no chance to be surprised. But there are more and more talented jewelers and designers.

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