You Can Help Save The Planet

Earth – You Can Help Save The Planet | Green Eco Voice
The environmental movement! Mankind continues to struggle with ideas and ways to save the planet. Words like sustainability, eco-friendly, environmentalist, ecosystems, and green are becoming a part of everyday vocabulary. The resounding message that Earths resources are being depleted has become a focus in [...]

Objectified

Objectified: A Documentary Film by Gary Hustwit
Objectified is a feature-length documentary about our complex relationship with manufactured objects and, by extension, the people who design them. It’s a look at the creativity at work behind everything from toothbrushes to tech gadgets. It’s about the designers who re-examine, re-evaluate and re-invent our manufactured environment on a [...]

Urban farming: the new dot com?

John Thackara from the Doors blog. I am just coming out of a semester’s work with students on the ecosphere where the university campus was seen as a farm first and then a place for people – at least in the planing process. So this adds to that. The image from hereis just to add [...]

Lever-driven folding bike called the Zoomla

Bicycle Design: Zoomla folding bike
Many of you will recognize the name Eric Stoddard. He is the guy who recently wrote three excellent guest posts here at Bicycle Design about his impressions of the Taipei Bicycle Show. Eric has an interesting new design that he just added to his website. It is a small-wheeled, lever-driven folding [...]

WINNER! (SeymourPowell award) for…

MW: WINNER! (SeymourPowell award) for…
… best concept in the competition called “Future City Mobility”. This was a group effort by Il Choi, David Seesing, Miika Hekkinen and me. All friends of mine at the RCA. A great project from the start to the end. The brief was basicly to look at the traffic situation in [...]

A Look at the State of Chinese Design Development

A lovely critical tone on V&A’s curation of a design exhibition.
Design Altruism Project » Blog Archive » Losing In Translation? A Look at the State of Chinese Design Development
Until recently, a positive view on the state of modern Chinese graphic design was difficult to find in the Western trade press. Hong Kong, under the rule [...]

RCA graduate show

And the future of design is going to be?
laser cut MDF?

RCA graduate show, London – Interiors – Wallpaper.com – International Design Interiors Fashion Travel
RCA Rector Sir Christopher Frayling opened the second part of the graduate show this morning with a rousing speech pointing to all the significant design movements that the hallowed halls have spawned. [...]

The architecture of Xefirotarch

Horror show: the architecture of Xefirotarch

22.06.09 [...]

Global warming isn’t real, says Senator Fielding

This is from the Age paper. Looks like the emissions trading scheme is dead!Or some political points are being made.
Global warming isn’t real, says Senator Fielding
Family First Senator Steve Fielding has made up his mind on global warming – there’s not enough evidence that it’s real.
After talks with the Government and top scientists, Senator Fielding, [...]

Once upon a time, China was a bike nation

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three stages

Unicycles

Just a drawing

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another suitcase bike

Drawing and bicycles

Cicli su Carta – Drawing and bicycles
I’ve always liked drawing. And I like riding bicycles. Drawing bicycles was the simplest way to put these two passions together.
I like lightweight racing bicycles. I prefer traditional lugged steel frames, masterpieces built with an exquisite craftmanship increasingly difficult to find.
The bicycles that I like most are the beautifully [...]

folding drawing

umm

More bike drawings

From http://maddopedrawings.com/bikes.html

Bike Drawing

Bike drawings from Velospace.

One Wheel Wonder

One Wheel Wonder: ExtraWheel’s Voyager Bike Trailer : TreeHugger
It’s not often that TreeHugger visits Poland, so we are pleased to present ExtraWheel, who hail from Nowy Targ in the south of the country. They produce an incredibly simple, single wheel bike trailer, that doubles as an emergency spare wheel.
ExtraWheel claim their trailers are the lightest [...]

Bike Friendly Office

Employers, Here’s How You Can Create a Bike-Friendly Office : TreeHugger
“How to Keep Cyclists Happy at the Office”Baltimore Spokes has an interesting piece about things that employers can do to help their employees successfully bike to work. It’s a very important thing. Even if you have nice bike paths and know all the tips about [...]

20 more bikes from Treehugger

20 Freaky Bikes As Selected by Matador Life : TreeHugger
Matador Life is about people in their hometowns, how they represent where they’re from, and what we can learn from each of the unique places we inhabit. Amongst the portraits of people’s hometowns and profiles of individuals strongly rooted in their communities, you’ll find bike-related content, [...]

High Heel Safety?

High Heel Safety? Take a Bike : TreeHugger
If you visit these pages often, you know that high heels are cycle chic, not an excuse to totter to your fossil-fuel powered footsaver and motor to your destination. Get ready to add another plus under the “bike with stilettos” column in your daily mobility decision: driving in [...]

The Suitcase Bike

The Suitcase Bike: It’s Real! : TreeHugger
From China comes this bike that can transform itself into a suitcase. There was some doubt whether this bike would actually be produced, but now we’ve heard that it’s in production (see photos below) and will be available sometime later this year. A prototype of the bike was on [...]

Electric bike

Schwinn’s New Line of Electric Bikes : TreeHugger
Do not attempt to adjust your monitor, this is really a picture of an electric bike. Schwinn’s new electric bikes are probably the slickest and most smoothly integrated set of power-assisted velocipedes we’ve yet seen. Schwinn teamed up with Protanium Inc. to develop a whole series of rides [...]