Protected: Interpretation of Enzo Mari’s Sedia Chair by Russell Baker, Bombast Furniture
Wednesday, November 27th, 2013
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Posts Tagged ‘consumerism’
The Lightbulb Conspiracy, aka Pyramids of Waste, a documentary on planned obsolescence
Tuesday, July 16th, 2013
The practice of planned obsolescence of consumer products includes Apple computers, as you’ll see if you watch the whole film. As a designer who attempts to make things that last, both in their material content and workmanship, the planned failure of other design objects is a slap in the face.
Buy Nothing Day
Friday, November 23rd, 2012
Buy Nothing Day was launched by Vancouver’s Adbusters Magazine.
“The journey towards a sane sustainable future begins with a single step. It could all start with a personal challenge, such as this: make a vow to yourself to participate in Buy Nothing Day this year. This November 23rd, go cold turkey on consumption for 24 hours … see what happens … you just might have an unexpected, emancipatory epiphany!
In praise of hemp – as textile, as paper, as food source
Tuesday, August 7th, 2012
Seeing the above graphic on Facebook recently (source wasn’t credited) reignited my longstanding frustration over our global failure to switch (back) to hemp as a major source for textiles, paper and food. (This article is about the hemp plant, not the marijuana plant. See more comments on this at bottom.)
I use hemp fabric in my textile work, but I find it far too difficult to source.
Vivienne Westwood: The whole 20th C was a mistake
Saturday, May 5th, 2012
Via The Guardian: “A status symbol is a book… that’s status.” “Punk was just an excuse for people to run around…it was just a fashion that became a marketing opportunity.” “The whole 20th C was a mistake… throwing the baby out with the bathwater.” “Study art and you become a freedom fighter.”
More from Westwood here.
Brown paper packages tied up with string
Wednesday, December 15th, 2010
These are a few of my favourite things. Above, a white painted branch with Kraft-paper wrapped gifts is a minimalist advent calendar, by the inventive DIY Brigg from Norway via The Style Files. Below: Simple garland fencing at Axel Vervoordt’s recent Winter Exhibition; photo via Belgian Pearls.
