///DESIGN

How much fun to know there are some new ‘gods’. These 5 Eco gods are  designed by Irene Hinderks.

‘This is one of my graduation projects at the Design Academy Eindhoven.I created these five new “gods” representing a new standard in life.’

///ORGANIC POPCORN MOMENT: Be inspired.

Delphic – Doubt from Modular People on Vimeo.

///PERSBERICHT

Vintage fashion night goed voor milieu én voor eigen portemonnee.

Amsterdam, 16 februari 2010 – Op vrijdagavond 5 maart 2010 organiseert het Ecofabs team samen met WOMEN INC. als onderdeel van het WOMEN INC. festival een Ecofabs Fashion Party in Pakhuis de Zwijger (Piet Heinkade 179) te Amsterdam. Gasten kunnen in een feestelijke ambiance een nieuwe vintage garderobe volledig duurzaam bij elkaar shoppen zonder geld uit te geven. Wat wil een milieubewuste fashionista nog meer in deze financieel roerige tijden.

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//DESIGN

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. Picture Jamie Oliver cooking in Ekokook or Desperate Housewives using vacuum cleaners designed by The Faltazi Lab.

///PUBLICITY

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!

Read more about the Swapping hype. Would you like to join? You can RSVP at Hiphonest Face Space on Facebook.

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