Tree of Codes by Jonathan Safran Foer

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Brickbox by Antxon Salvador and Roger Zanni

It's not the first time that I post this kind of thing. I found very interesting the notion of furniture that can be used in other ways, in this case you can make a bookcase and once you move to another place you can carry all the books inside as regular boxes. Or you can configure if you need all the bookcase or if you want some boxes apart.



Brickbox
Roger Zanni

The Page by Jae Kim

As you can watch on the video below this is just a prototype (semi transparent e-ink) of a newspaper e-reader. The concept seems bold and clever to me.

And I am one of those that like to think that color e-ink is the future of print (or not printed really). Sorry for the ipad, which I love (Mac lover and happy user) but for reading e-ink is superior.

The video explains the idea perfectly.


THE PAGE_Adaptive Delivery Device from Scott Liao on Vimeo.







Cooperjay

Information is Beautiful

I see this as a web you should be keeping an eye at least once in a while. Basically its information presented in complex graphics that simplified the way of understanding the information provided. Most of them really well done, graphically speaking and also the information that they provide is really useful.
I think it's called "data flow"









Information is Beautiful

It would be like Visual Complexity but with worthy information to check and compare.

Biomimicry = The next frontier

I was looking how wetlands can be used to treat water and I came up with this piece of gold. Enjoy!!

Ecological Footprint

After searching Mathis Wackernagel I have to keep these link:

footprintstandards
footprintnetwork

I forgot this incredible and inspirational video from Tim Ferris

You wont waist your time by watching all the video...

Bruce Mau talking about Sustainability

Talking here about sustainability I found this to be gold:

Q: What is the biggest hurdle between us and an oil free world?


A: I think it is actually human behaviour. if you think about it, we already have enough. e.o. wilson a life scientist once said that we could already get to a one world sustainable practice with what we already have. so we don’t need to invent new things, if we just change the way we behave. but we have a mountain of proof that we are not going to change out of an altruistic moto. in other words, even if we 
understand we should do certain things we don’t. this is true even of people like me who are committed to this way of thinking.

I was recently having dining with a few friends who are prominent environmentalists and we were all talking about the things we were working on. I brought up what e.o. wilson said, that if the whole world lived like americans, we would need four additional planet earths, but if the whole world lived like the people sitting at this table we would need thirty five plant earths. so even people who are committed to sustainability aren’t going to change. if you watch al gore’s movie, an inconvenient truth, almost all the photographs of him are in a plane. so we see that the behaviour is not going to automatically change, we have to design the change. we have to design new ways of doing things that are more compelling that the old.

Edible States by Fritz Haeg

I found it quite interesting... I just read an interview of the writer and I found terrific this bit:

Q: what is the biggest hurdle between us and an oil free world?


A: I think the projects I’m doing are not motivated by this, they are coming at it from such a different direction. I’m interested in creating projects that are demonstrative of the world that I personally want to live in. one where I’m growing my own food and there are gardens in the street and there are animals in the city and I can only imagine the implication that that would have if everyone did it. so I’m not specifically coming at it from an engineer’s or architect’s point of view that is quantifying anything.