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Embracing imperfections
What we did to pottery and ceramic ware yesterday, we can do to walls, rooms and houses today: enhance cracks, cuts, bruises and breaks by purposefully incorporating them . Olivo Barbieri’s image...
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When buying clothing
SimplyRainer and I have this little household rule that we devised for the Kitchen Kingdom: If we wish to buy a new, electric kitchen appliance, we must give up of an old one. That way we try to curb...
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Products designed to nudge us
There is a growing palette of products designed with a double brief – besides fulfilling their usual product requisites, they should also nudge us towards more sustainable behaviour. The personal...
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Nudging towards sustainable palm oil
Nutella has it, so do many, many biscuits, snacks, breads, cakes, confectionery fillings, ice cream, processed cheeses, and more. And that’s just the food applications of palm oil. It’s also a typical...
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Nudging towards saving water
Heard of KOREFE – Kolle Rebbe Form und Entwicklung? That’s the Hamburg-based Design and Innovation Agency that created the brand Stop The Water While Using Me for which it received the Red Dot 2010...
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More modern mobile tableware
Mobile tableware has been a central subject of this blog for a number of entries. The meal packagings that we looked at included the meal carrier variety: tiffins, rantangs, tingkats, pintos, sage...
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Something extraordinary
I used to have a saying stuck up on my wall: ‘Live an ordinary life extraordinarily.’ Graphic designer Jessica Ettridge must have connected with that too for her project Extraordinary. She selected a...
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How do you measure time?
There’s an inflection on the ‘you’ in that question. Is it by the watch on your wrist, your smartphone or a computerclock? Imagine if you would mark your local time by “the movement of toads and the...
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Eats shoots and leaves
You may remember the old punctuation joke about the hungry (or was it homicidal?) panda: ‘Eats, shoots and leaves’ – or – ‘Eats shoots and leaves’. What with the growing vegetarian and vegan trend, it...
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