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BEST MADE PROJECTS. 60 Highly Clever Minimal Logo Designs - StumbleUpon. Depending on the flavor of your business, your logo may appear big and flashy, bold and colorful or just plain simple and clever. In this roundup, I’ve turned the spotlight towards the more simple and clever logo styles that leave a strong impression. As simplistic as they may appear, there is genius behind these 60 highly clever minimal logo designs. OneFund Filmaps Folder back Bipolar Backspace Stairs Fence v.2 Walk Unarmed Frankenstein Films Thinktank Pelican eveva Love Clip SewPerfect Wave Pendulum Sex Lovers City Direct FishLine Up Straight UP elefont Rocket Golf Illusion Circus of Magazines CodeFish Zip Mummy Foot Missing Helium Killed Productions Bird Giraffe minimum Catch 5 ascus HandsUp Pencil James Forbes Plumbing Wine Searcher Ed’s Electric LocKey Handmade Pictures upside down productions More Wine Kingdom brand Twins Horror Films Ross Poultry Half Crown Jump Atack Tulipart Have a Favorite?

When putting a showcase of inspiration together, I often find myself picking a couple of favorites out of the bunch. Written by Shawn Ramsey. Oliver Poyntz: Welcome. RE-wine: A Wine Carrying Case That Transforms Into a Light Fixture or Even a Wall. RE-wine is a modular, multi-purpose wine carrying case by Taiwanese company Miniwiz, the design team behind such recycled PET products as the EcoArk and Polli-Brick.

But that’s not all RE-wine does. While it serves as gift packaging, your favorite oenophiles can use it long after they drink the wine you give them – as a modern light fixture. That’s right, RE-wine comes with a light socket so you can turn it into a lamp shade, or even use an empty wine bottle as a stand for a desk lamp! And if you think that’s already more purposes than you can count on one hand, get this: RE-wine is structural, meaning you can build a wall or even a storage rack out of it. . + Miniwiz. Nic Parnell Transforms Waste Wood Into Beautiful Eco Furniture. Designer Nic Parnell‘s work explores methods of finding new value in neglected wood by altering its aesthetic and surface.

Nic only works with found or reclaimed wood. He also works alongside tree surgeons to source the necessary branches, which would otherwise simply be shredded. His work satisfies our visual desire to repel geometry and structure while engaging with nature in a newly formed intelligence – one that is engineered for visual and sensory engagement. + Nic Parnell The article above was submitted to us by an Inhabitat reader. Poetree Burial Planter is an Eco Memorial That Honors the Cycle of Life. Although death is universal, it seems that the final choice of how our bodies are laid to rest is not – and traditional burials are looking like less and less attractive as they take up land and use unsavory chemistry that eventually winds up in the soil.

As a result, cremation and natural burials are becoming more popular due to the sensitive way they return bodies to the earth. We spotted a new approach over at Treehugger that was proposed by India-based industrial design student Margaux Ruyant as a thoughtful way to memorialize the deceased by incorporating their ashes into a living tree memorial. Poetree is a ceramic ring with a cork receptacle for ashes and an opening on top for a tree to sprout from.

The Poetree is an interesting hybrid between burial and cremation – it’s an urn and a memorial marker at the same time. The remains are placed in a container made from cork, and a cork stopper is removed to make room for a small boxwood tree. . + Poetree Via Treehugger. Pi Pan Pizza Dish Could Prevent Billions Of Boxes From Being Discarded. Everyone loves pizza, but the main problem with enjoying a fine takeaway, stuffed crust pie (I know what I’m having for dinner…) is the number of cardboard boxes that need to be disposed of after. In the United States alone, over 3 BILLION pizza boxes are thrown away each year. However, Good News Reuse, an eco-minded company, has come up with an innovation that aims to drastically reduce the amount of cardboard that goes into the nation’s landfills: the Pi Pan reuseable pizza dish.

Despite being made from cardboard, and therefore eligible for recycling, only a fraction of pizza boxes are recycled, as the amount of grease, hardened cheese and other food waste make the process difficult. Alternatively, made from ultra-thin NSF certified food-grade stainless steel, the ultra-light Pi Pan is able to be reused over 1,000 times while paying for itself after only 30. The idea is that pizza delivery services would use the pizza tray to deliver pies to regular customers such as businesses.

Fruitwash Labels Turn to Soap When You Cleanse Your Produce. We often don’t give much thought to the pesky little stickers affixed to our produce, quickly just pulling them off and flicking them from our fingertips into a trashcan. But considering the millions of apples, pears and other produce they are tacked to, the waste adds up. In response, Scott Amron has come up with a much better alternative with his vanishing Fruitwash Labels that dissolve into an organic, fruit-cleansing produce wash that helps remove wax, pesticides, dirt and bacteria.

The labels are also as practical as their non-dissolving counterparts, displaying market Price Look-Up (PLU) codes and origin. Quite ingenious if you ask us. If you’re looking for an investment opportunity, Amron is currently selling a 10% stake in the Fruitwash Label Intellectual Property (patents). + Amron Exptl. Via Core 77. Change the Record by Paul Cocksedge.