///GREEN REVOLUTION

During a special summer edition of Streetlab Businesscase presented 2night Hiphonest presented the new trends in Ecofashion. Here are the links and visuals.

Inspired by Cradle-to-Cradle

Refinity, Mona Ohlendorf, Oat, Nike, Christine Vriesema

New technologies

By-wire

Via Ecouterre

Artez Graduation Show

//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.

///DESIGN

Well, it is probably to late to join this competition for this year (you have a few hours left..), but keep an eye on the winning designers. The Metropolis Next Generation® Design Competition was created in 2003 to promote activism, social involvement, and entrepreneurship in young designers. Metropolis saw the need for a new type of competition, one that went beyond the usual beauty pageants for finished projects, a competition that would generate and reward ideas.

The winning concept of Metropolis’s 2009 Next Generation competition weds two common aspects of the landscape: electrical-transmission towers and wind turbines.

Good design determines Read the rest of this entry »

///BREAKING NEWS

Personally, the good news is, that Hiphonest.com is mentioned on 3 different long-lists for the subcategories TrendWatcher of The Year 2010. I feel already very honored.. Since this writing is my dedicated passion! These different categories: UPCOMING TALENT / FASHION & DESIGN /DUURZAAMHEID (=SUSTAINABILITY)

So if you feel like promoting me or Hiphonest please send an email before 2 February to: ikstemop@secondsight.nl

THANKS Annouk

///ORGANIC POPCORN MOMENT

What will the future bring us…?  Find the Cradle to Cradle book in this movie and enjoy the green roofs!.

Video via Annemieke Sweere