Another interesting duo that I met at SHIFTboston are Derek Cascio and Sam Aquillano. They are creating the Design Museum Boston, where they will share all types of design – architecture, furniture, product design, graphic design and more. The approach Derak and Sam are taking for Design Museum Boston isn’t the normal route of raising [...]
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This week, at the COP15 Climate Change Conference, a group of MIT students introduced the Copenhagen Wheel, which turns any bike you already own into an “electric bike with regeneration and real-time environmental sensing capabilities.” The Copenhagen Wheel harvests energy when you brake and stores it for when you need a boost – going uphill, [...]
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ICFF 2009 was smaller than last year, surely due to the economy, but there was no shortage of imaginative, thoughtful designs. Indeed, the amount of sustainable design at the show was greater than ever, and the pieces showed a great deal of both creativity and maturity. Below, here are 11 green designs, from floors to [...]
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If you haven’t watched TV, read a newspaper, or been on the T in the last month or so, you may be forgiven for not knowing about Puma City. Puma City, a pop-up store currently set up on Fan Pier near the ICA, is an assemblage of 24 shipping containers. The use of shipping containers [...]
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