Dutch designer Tjeerd Veenhoven likes experimenting the materials and production techniques that yield to clever, innovative and sustainable solutions which bring a new perspective to everyday objects. One of his latest designs is the “Carbon Bike”. Carbon framed bicycles are well-known to provide a better strength vs. weight ration, however they require ...

Asuman is a Milan based stylist and artisan. A year ago, she started Asumaison, a different way of shopping and socialising. The philosophy of Asumaison is based on alternative models of shopping, a kind of reaction against the industrial scale shopping. Asuman designs, creates and selects handmade and high quality ...

The London Design Festival, a nine days celebration of design, ended in September 26. The Festival is an alternative map of the city (where you can get lost!). It is a different way to enjoy London space and time, looking for places, ideas, tastes, shapes, thoughts on everything that surrounds ...

INCLUSIVO is a fair trade and social action project that objectives are to eradicate extreme poverty in Chile. It generates work for micro factories with low costs production and minimum expertise, key factors to overcome poverty in short term. The project is by Un Techo para Chile, a Chilean ...

the best of made in is a research and design project that objective is to develop a multi-service web platform that (1) enhances the value of high quality handmade products, and (2) empowers local artisans, independent designers and micro/small enterprises from different countries. The platform focuses on home and fashion craft sectors. . A ...

System Reload Milan is an eco design event that engages the wider international design community through talks, lectures and workshops. It is held on the 18th and 19th of April at the Fabbrica del Vapore in via Procaccini 4, during Milan Design Week 2008 (Il Salone Internazionale del Mobile/I ...