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#17849 - The best family portraits EVER! Photos by...

The best family portraits EVER! Photos by Akihiro Furuta. (Want more? See NOTCOT.org and NOTCOT.com)

#17847 - The project called “Inside Out|Outside In”...

The project called “Inside Out|Outside In” is part of the Ordos 100 project and discusses the relationship and fusion of interior and exterior space, through subtle openings on the façade. (Want more? See NOTCOT.org and NOTCOT.com)

Cap-and-Trade Shuts Down U.S. Coal Plants

Jubilant environmentalists trade high fives, carbon permits We tend to see a lot of handwringing over the fact that Europe has a carbon cap in place, yet they're still adding coal to the mix. But stories like this never seem to get reported the other ...

Climate Will Change Everything

From the discovery of intelligent life somewhere else to a web-based revolution in education, certain future milestones seem to hold the power to change everything that happens afterward. The online intellectual forum The Edge recently posted ideas about ...

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Don't be surprised to see an electric Lotus shortly

Photo: Lotus Evora Lotus Electric Car in the Cards These words were recently spoken by Lotus CEO Michael Kimberley, making us think that being a supplier to Tesla Motors inspired the company to throw its hat in the ring. The concept EV is expected for ...

Agriculture Needs a Fundamental Rethink in the 21st Century

photo: David Silver You may have missed it over the holidays of the past ten days but the BBC ran an interesting piece on the sort of transformation that will be required in the 21st century to feed a projected world population of 9 billion by 2050, ...

Underwriters Laboratories Introducing Green Label

Labels and standards are a touchy and confusing subject. Who sets them? What do they cover? TreeHugger readers have seen companies just calling themselves green, companies inventing their own labels (like SC Johnson), Companies going to third party labels-for-hire ...

Library Use is Booming Because of Recession

Photo: Flickr The Good Ol' Book is Back in Vogue When green advocates talk about product service systems (PSS), many might be left scratching their heads (if that's you, check out the linked Wikipedia page). Yet we're all familiar with public libraries, ...

Greener Gadgets Session at CES

If you're going to be in Vegas for the upcoming CES show, be sure to check out the GREENER GADGETS: The Future Of Consumer Technology session on January 10th. Moderated by Marc Alt, the panel features David Floyd from Freeplay, Mary Lou Jepsen from Pixel ...

Pininfarina in hot water

The financially beleaguered Pininfarina Design House is best known for monster designs like the Ferrari P45, above, but who knew they've also designed...showers? Below is the Pininfarina-designed Morphosis Omega by Jacuzzi, the "ultimate hydromassage ...

A look at wood, part 3: Rendering wood with Photoshop brushes

When it comes to product and interior renderings, doing concrete, steel, plastic, and even glass are fairly easy jobs; but getting wood grain to look just right is often more difficult than applying a surface texture and hitting the "go" button. Those ...

Book Review: Wired to Care, by Dev Patnaik with Peter Mortenson

The concept of "needsfinding" seems unique to our consumer culture. True needs like air, sleep or hunger announce themselves with neurochemical fury, tearing animals away from what they think they should be doing and dragging them into the immediacy ...

A look at wood, part 2: New wood, without the dead trees

"Who wants to go to South America and destroy the rainforest when we've got material right in this country that's being thrown away?" Those are the words of Josh Malpass, an employee of Whole Log Lumber, a company named a "Growth Business to Watch" just ...

First look at the Objectified trailer

Gizmodo's got first crack at Gary Huswit's Objectified trailer, the movie that will hopefully do for ID what Helvetica did for graphic design. The 90-second spot features Jonathan Ive, Naoto Fukusawa, Dieter Rams, IDEO, Smart Design, and others. Click ...

MoHen Design International’s Exciting Project

In this post you are going to get a real design treat in the form of the MoHen Design International's Winding Corridor home. MoHen is an award winning Chinese design firm that has been catching the eye of design-lovers around the world for sometime now. The ...

#17845 - Wow. So Liquid Image has stepped up their line...

Wow. So Liquid Image has stepped up their line of diving masks with built in cameras ~ the top of the line ProHD350 model is good up to 100m/330ft, shoots stills at 5mgp and HD 720p video with audio! And it's sleek and black! (Want more? See NOTCOT.org ...

#17844 - History of the Internet is an animated...

"History of the Internet" is an animated documentary explaining the inventions from time-sharing to filesharing, from Arpanet to Internet. (Want more? See NOTCOT.org and NOTCOT.com)

#17846 - 6 different lined patterns and colored...

6 different lined patterns and colored notebooks from Brighten the Corners (Want more? See NOTCOT.org and NOTCOT.com)

Objectified Trailer

Another documentary by Gary Hustwit. If you haven't seen 'helvetica' adocumentary about the typeface helvetica its a must see. Here's a trailer about his new work on designed objects....interviews from familiar characters.

catalina bartolome

20 anos – 1000 muestras museo de artes plásticas pompeo boggio, buenos aires december 12, 2008 – january 16, 2009 catalina bartolome is an argentinean photographer who creates images that depict people in odd and unusual poses or circumstances. her ...

RELAXX by AKII

RELAXX is a new sports and leisure centre by AKII in bratislava, slovakia. the building is located on a long and narrow site that is surrounded by highway traffic and close to railways. the building’s form was determined by its skinny site; stretching ...