The Package Unseen | Observations about package design, culture, and context. Sustainable is Good | Where design, lifestyle and packaging meet. Reverend Billy & The Church of Stop Shopping. Unconsumption – Page 1. Autonomous robots to be used in keeping dust off solar panels in Israel’s biggest solar field, reports timesofisrael: Most solar energy farms are located in deserts, where there is plenty of sunlight — which solar panels, of course, need a lot of.
But the desert also has a lot of dust, which clogs up the photovoltaic components of the panels, making them less effective in collecting sunlight for conversion into energy. Panels have to be cleaned on a regular basis, but water in the desert tends to be expensive, if available at all — and the use of water to clean the panels raises the costs of production, making solar power too expensive to be considered anything more than a novelty…. Instead of using water to clean panels, Ecoppia’s robot cleaners are equipped with microfibers, with each robot assigned to a row of PV panels.
Ambalaj | Packaging Design - Food & Beverages. Rob Walker: As objects go, it doesn’t look like much. It’s, you know, a yellow card. But when theatrically brandished by an official, almost literally in the face of a player who has done something wrong, it has wild power. It's hard to imagine the World Cup without it. Images of disappearing playgrounds from Brenda Biondo. Are they "classic"? The upcoming Macro City conference in San Francisco focuses on "overlooked networks of infrastructure that surrounds us. " A fictional product line satirizing a popular line of fancy tools is a nice example of the object-as-critique — one that raises a very serious line of questioning about the ideologies and biases embedded in designed things.
Normally the latest paparazzi target is of minimal interest. Here's a stealthy icon you've surely seen: Boris The Burglar. Does it matter what a security camera looks like? Rob Walker is a technology/culture columnist for Yahoo News. Recent Book Design Observer Archive Other Essays: 2010-2012 Complete List >> Box Vox | packaging as content. PACKAGING | UQAM.