I need this book

http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2010/october/tim-flachs-dogs

Cardboard life

http://1800recycling.com/2010/08/tiny-cardboard-people-singapore/

Wow weekends

This October has 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays, and 5 Sundays. Only happens once every 823 years.

10:10 Boom

Back to the research

Heeeere I am, week 11...maybe even 12, and I'm back to research. Shit heap...


Use Less Plastic from TakePart on Vimeo.

Thank you Rodarte

BRING BACK THE SIDE PART. Im over this middle part business. I think only 1% of the world can pull it off. I am not one of them.

This is how hair should be done

  

My Mothers Unknown Mixture Hen

Visual Thought

Thought

What is more transparent than plastic?

         Honesty

Thoughts

Because it's green its sustainable - Trash can is green? Pavement rubbish is green? Banana is green? Carrot is green?

Because its in plastic its hygienic - Wrapped worms? Poo in a box? Crap wrapped? Bug bundle?


Get thinking. What fools you? Almost everything? Nothing at all. What do you look for? What are you looking for? Look down? Look up?

Question your actions.

Question your actions..

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I Quote You

'in an images society, produce is more important than possess'
           Le_Client_suivant








By RERO

Feet Fodder

Chie Mihara shoes are the pinnacle of perfectly ugly. Cant go wrong! Look them up (and down) here

BEST Blog

http://version1.itsnicethat.com/index.php?month=2008-07&s=blog

have a look

Meat Stunt

See here

Oh Heck YES

Canon 7D vs. Barbie Video Girl from Brandon Bloch on Vimeo.

This is me

Work by Alex Kisilevich. See more here

Clever Campaign

J&V

This is the crazy stuff I grew up on. I know have a magnificent appreciation for it. I cant really compare it to anything. Just watch. And enjoy. And paint mid pictures.

With Winter Come Colds

by Saatchi & Saatchi for nasal spray brand Otrivin.

As Much As You Need

How Do You Take It

How do you take away the stigma of a paper cup being the opposite of eco-friendly? Make a non-paper cup... cup. This genius little take-out cup is more than it appears to be.

Designer, James Burgess, has created a witty design that turns an everyday disposable coffee cup into a sustainable product that you want to keep. The concept of creating a cup that mimics the taboo paper coffee cup, yet is a porcelain mug that is eco-conscious is one way to stay ahead of the coffee crowd trend and save a tree all at the same time! This just proves that a great idea can make a difference.

You will be sure to see these mugs on the desks of our Fresh Media crew who are dedicated cup-of-joe worshipers.

Closer Thank You Realise

The ad campaign created by Friends of the Earth to bring awareness to the amount of pollution people are actually inhaling every day. The concept centered on a cup lid printed with the back of a car and a straw that is cleverly placed where the exhaust pipe would originally be. Thus, having people consider what they are ingesting. The lids were distributed around shops to help expose customers to the epidemic of pollution. This is such a clever campaign because they combined an extremely common vice for millions of people with an extremely common, but overlooked, problem we all face. Fresh air.

Ziplock Fresh

See more here

Moving Type

Typophile Film Festival 5 Opening Titles from Brent Barson on Vimeo.

Thia has some cool messages in it too, my fave, everyone drinks and eats but only some taste.

UK Take 1

Greenvoice.com launches anti-packaging viral

Liz Wells, packagingnews.co.uk, 21 October 2008

Greenvoice.com, a website which focuses on green issues, has launched a campaign against excess packaging across several social networking websites.

The campaign has been designed to target a younger audience, who Greenvoice believe are more active with environmental issues.

Greenvoice wants people to sign its petition and plans to lobby the government. 

It wants the government to introduce absolute restrictions on packaging, setting optimal weight regulations on packaging and introducing targets for biodegradable packaging.

Greenvoice was unavailable to talk to Packaging News.

Dick Searle, chief executive of the Packaging Federation, said: "The campaign is laughable. It shows just how little these people understand about packaging. 

"If these people want to cut down on packaging then they will have to stop buying goods because packaging is just a delivery system for goods."

The campaign viral features a humorous play in which a young woman gets wrapped in plastic and cardboard on her way to meet her boyfriend.

Watch the viral here

For Tom

Medicinal Purposes

Chinese designer Daizi Zheng created a range of healthy snacks packaged to look like drugs and junk food, including these blueberries in a blister pack. Called Stereotype, the project includes carrot sticks packaged like cigarettes and celery sticks in a french fry carton.

Stereotype is about helping people eat more healthier through their everyday habits. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), unhealthy diet is amongst one of the leading causes of the major non-communicable diseases. Can design encourage people to rethink their relationship with healthy food to gain a balanced diet?

Life in the fast lane

For those looking to move a little quicker, auto giant Volkswagen has created a “Fast Lane” slide at the Alexanderplatz subway station in Berlin. So the commuters have the choice to either take the staircase or have fun and save time by sliding down the Fast Lane. View it here

Steps to being greener

Get a greener footprint, by New Balance. Watch it here

Sant'Anna Eco Bottle on the Behance Network

Sant'Anna Eco Bottle on the Behance Network

Honda: Do, keep doing and do some more on the Behance Network

Honda: Do, keep doing and do some more on the Behance Network

A little bit of insight goes a long way, their insight was doing, as in, actively participating in doing stuff. And they got a wee story out of it. I find this theme a little child like though, especially for my particular target audience, but none the less, it may have worked for theirs.

Liquid Slab

The Tangga House by Guz Architects

I find this pretty fascinating, plus at first glance it looks amazing, and then once you start exploring, you can see the eco-friendly elements. Id hope the building work is perfect, and there's someone who is very dedicated to keeping the pool clean! Read and see more here

The store that fits

A new wave is coming in totally reflecting what your brand and company stands for. How better to do this than embody every part of it. Take a look at these store fit outs, eco-forward, full of fun, and the benefits are obvious. You could say rightin front of your eyes!

eBarrito

Starbamboo

Treehugger

Makes me think of the Aesop concept store I visited in Melbourne. The site is here. Id say they win.

Cover Me Beautiful Sort Of

Im not a hundred percent on where I stand with this. Its an awesome, real time and real life ad campaign, but it has no greater respect in mind, other than covering what you have with what we got. I don't have a problem with the majority of it, but there are some surfaces that I think are beautiful and probably significant to the culture in particlular there are a few moments of beautiful architecture, and also I think brick need not to be covered. It would have been different is the colour palette was more mature and understanding, rather than reintroducing kindergarten. Anyway, take a look, and be sure to read the comments.

'Designed' work..

Im not too sure about the thinking behind this campaign. It does have an interesting message, well, sort of, but its prpbably much more of a design solution that a thought about and executed strategy. See more here and make your own opinion.

Dent

Coke with no colour? Just like black and white television, we would still think it in colour. This is intended to be an eco friendly package, as they minimise their waste by not using colour processing, and instead use indentations. See more here on the Behance Network.

Collection

I've been clearing out my desktop a bit lately, these are just some of the odds and sods I've collected whilst travelling the internet. Goodness though, you should see my physical collection. Its out of hand.

Delicate

Liyen Chong is a graduate from Canterbury Fine Arts School in Christchurch. She works meth methods of embroidery, using her own hair! The pieces are so fine and carefully put together. Sustainable? I think so. More here

No Comment

A picture can tell a thousand words, and sometimes it's not good. The American flag makes it all the much better, I wonder what state this is!

Lula Trala

Pretty much inLOVE with Lula magazine, if only I could find it on the NZ shelves

Cut and Paste

I've had far too much spare time (slash time wasting), so I've been scrap booking. The only reason the images are together is because I chose them. Nice to think of.

Show Me the Info

Pretty much amazing, if your looking for a new angle on any topic, the thoughts are here! You could say its 'doco-heaven'. Particularly helpful for me is the Environment section. Find it all here

Lovely Lolli with plenty of pop!

Massimo Gammacurta's logo lollipops are brought together in a new book, a sickly sweet collection of corporate iconography rendered in brightly coloured sugar... Read everything here

An article on "Sustainable Consumption" from a business perspective

The Business Role Focus Area targets WBCSD member companies, regional Business Councils for Sustainable Development (BCSDs) and future business leaders. It also reaches out to external stakeholder such as consumers, valuation experts, academics and policy-makers.

This Focus Area is dedicated to exploring issues around the role of business, but also looking at how it relates to the WBCSD's three other Focus Areas – Energy and Climate, Development and Ecosystems. The Focus Area aims to engage, equip and mobilize current and future business leaders to shape the role of business.

The Business Role Focus Area is categorised into three main workstreams, each with specific objectives:

• Exploring/Visioning the role of business to define the boundaries of responsibility around different sustainability issues, both now and in the future
  
  
• Influencing key stakeholders to help them understand to the contribution business can make to sustainable development
  
  
• Implementing sustainable development to help companies manage change and demonstrate progress.

Exploring/Visioning

Our key exploratory activity is the Vision 2050 project. WBCSD member companies (and others) have made tremendous progress in becoming more eco-efficient in terms of energy, water and resource use. But such progress is being overwhelmed by increased energy and resource use globally. Progress in eco-efficiency may have to be complemented by radical changes in business systems.

It is with this in mind that 26 WBCSD member companies have come together inVision 2050 to outline their view of the role of business in making the world sustainable, focusing on business models, lifestyles, governance systems, education needs, ways to gain public acceptance for change, financing systems, and interactions between all elements of society.

Another activity is the idea laboratory and learning arena where new issues are explored and tested. Called Learning by Sharing, sessions are held during our semi-annual member meetings.

Influencing

For business to wholeheartedly take on the role of provider of goods and services that address global challenges, markets and market mechanisms need to be designed to promote sustainable development. The Business Role Focus Area is in particular trying to influence two key spheres – investors and consumers ‑ whose “framework setting” is crucial for how and to what extent our companies can develop and deliver sustainable business.

Influencing investors – valuation

This workstream joins a group of WBCSD companies with a group of financial institutions in cooperation with the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI). The aim was to provide a platform for business and actors of the capital markets to come together to discuss common challenges and build consensus on how sustainable development can be valued in investment decisions.

A series of six global workshops were held in 2008. Over 140 representatives from companies, investment firms, service providers and international organizations have participated in these discussions.

The workshops revealed that the definition of sustainability differs quite broadly from business audience to investment audience; and from region to region.

Each workshop in major investment centres of London, New York, Johannesburg, Kuala Lumpur, Vienna and Montreux offered fresh evidence of the tensions between the drive to establish the business case for sustainability in a locally relevant way, and how to interpret sustainability performance in the language of investors.

However, when companies are able to explain how sustainability issues are material, the investment community listens.

Influencing consumers – sustainable consumption

Sustainable consumption has been a delicate issue for business. Today, companies involved in this work state clearly that sustainable consumption and influencing consumers towards it is a natural part of their business activities.

They also clearly signal that addressing the sustainable consumption challenge is not necessarily about down-sizing consumption, but that innovation and capturing opportunities is an essential part of the solution.

The focus of our sustainable consumption work is on the role of business in influencing consumer choice and behavior towards sustainable consumption.

A key output is our 2008 facts & trends publication on sustainable consumption –Sustainable Consumption Facts & Trends.

Implementing Sustainable Development

The WBCSD's Implementing Sustainable Development program delivers value to members by providing a platform for leading-edge practices and improving the capabilities of a variety of stakeholder groups, particularly today's and tomorrow's managers.

Objectives include understanding the sustainable development implementation needs of members, building the capacity of today's and tomorrow's managers through the Future Leaders Team, and facilitating learning across and between member companies.

The program has a range of tools available to enable companies to implement sustainable development, including individual customizations of Chronos, our e-learning tutorial on sustainable development, a Human Resources Functional Briefillustrating the role of human resources in adapting to shifting sustainability challenges, and seminars and learning opportunities held with various universities worldwide, as well as at international congresses, conferences and other events.

These tools and programs can be delivered independently. However, the WBCSD also provides individual member services on a pay-per-use basis to enhance the value of membership and support sustainable development implementation.

From this site here