Sometimes you arrive home back from a night that only deserves one word PERFECT! Even a total rain shower on my pink JUX dress (yes read soaking wet) doesn’t matter at all. Bravo to the kool-conscious people of Strawberry Earth and sponsor Greenchoice, the filmmakers and all the other Greenies who made this Award Dinner of the Dutch Environmental Film Festival happen. Congrats to the makers of movie Dive for their Golden Strawberry Earth award. A longer report will be posted soon. For now, I will temper my energy and sleep well on the delicious organic dinner.
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Via a tweet tip from FloorDrees I found this ‘state of the art’ kitchen design ‘Ekokook’ by the French design/research agency The Faltazi Lab. Besides this kitchen looks like a Walhalla, it helps you reducing your ecological footprint. I say let the earthworms begin!!
On engadget.com we can reed: ‘Ekokook is designed to generate essentially zero waste. The solid waste — things like glass — are ground down using a hand-activated steel ball, and there’s also a manual paper shredder which compacts the leftovers into small bricks. Water is stored, filtered, and reused, with waste water being used to water plants. Oh, and there’s also an eco-friendly earthworm compactor in a drawer!’ How this works? Check these visuals!
Ekokook is about implementing a global prospective research project for eco-friendly habitat in the real world: the Faltazi Lab. ‘We are trying to answer the question of how to introduce ecological projects into the home. How to upgrade existing housing without advocating complete reconstruction.’
Rapid Manufacuring
Besides a kitchen The Faltazi Lab researched and designed other products.
These products are made by using the rapid manufacturing proces. To learn more about this just watch this video on YOUTUBE.
Benefit is that these products can be produced locally, so there is no stock, no assembly and minimal transportation. Other winning rapid manufactured designs you can see by FOC. Let’s hope that designs like these will be promoted into the bigger market. PictureJamie Oliver cooking in Ekokook or Desperate Housewives using vacuum cleaners designed by The Faltazi Lab.
This weekend Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant added a special programme of the WOMEN INC. festival in their magazine. Ecofabs Fashion Party (Vintage Fashion Swap event) will be participating on 5 March, and we (Ecofabs team: Dianne, Robbert & Annouk) had a nice article on our party!
Wondering how the clouds look like in Greenland before the storm kicks in? Peter Lyberth’s a.k.a. Peand el’s, a rapper from Greenland will show you around Greenland in 30 days @ Mediamatic.net. Read the former post Art for Change.
Studio Annouk Post: is an Amsterdam based creative studio specialized in sustainable fashion & design. Projects vary from trend research presentations, concept-design & strategy & writing, plus some own initiatives.
So, if you need a fresh and authentic brand concept or guerilla event? Wish to entertain and inform your audience with a brilliant program/exhibition with interesting speakers/designers? Desire to be indulged in the next trends and products in sustainable fashion and design? Just contact the creative network of Studio A.P. and let’s discuss the possibilities.
Hiphonest’ stands for innovative fashion and design being made with respect for people as well as the planet. The good news is the share of Hiphonest lifestyl products and initiatives is growing. On a daily base new and stylish sustainable labels, magazines, stores, initiatives and much more pop up around the globe. To make this Hiphonest share more tangible the blog Hiphonest.com presents you winning examples of sustainable fashion & design.
Hiphonest aims to create more awareness and understanding of sustainable design, branding and trends; by connecting you to the Hiphonest planet.
'The deeper meaning behind this blog goes back to my personal vision on the world: 'YOI:'
YOI: is based on the ‘bigger picture’ in which we are on our way to a more beautiful and balanced world wherein sustainable thinking, design, fashion, people and business will make the difference.
In terms of the massive and dramatic environmental/ economic crisis that we are facing, this change is absolutely needed.
Basically the essence of this ‘awareness movement’ takes place in the being and hearts of optimistic but critical thinking people.
To define this particular mind shift I gave this the name/brand ‘YOI:’ As it stands therefore, ‘We’ as human beings are in a conscious global transition.' by Annouk Post
This video is made by Hiphonest in 2004. Here you will witness the first steps of the Hiphonest Shift. Graphic designers selling organic T-shirts with their prints, selling your second hand oldies on the streets, first American Apparel stores, pioneer labels Loomstate & Edun and much more..
Its not always very fashionable yet, but this is how it all started.
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