Design Files – Presenting the Conbox Stackable Fan. A fan is a machine used to create flow within a fluid, typically a gas such as air. The fan consists of a rotating arrangement of vanes or blades which act on the fluid.
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Book of the Month – Cropping the Ocean
Cropping the Ocean is a sustainable energy book. The book focuses on energy that is consumed at insignificant rates compared to its supply and with manageable collateral effects, especially environmental effects.
Welcome to Finland
Finland is a sovereign state in Northern Europe. The country has land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east.
Print is dead. Long live Print.
Communication design is a mixed discipline between design and information-development which is concerned with how media intervention such as printed, crafted, electronic media or presentations communicate with people. A communication design approach is not only concerned with developing the message aside from the aesthetics in media, but also with creating new media channels to ensure
The aesthetics of sustainable design in 3d printing
Sustainable design is the philosophy of designing physical objects, the built environment, and services to comply with the principles of social, economic, and ecological sustainability.
Tokyo’s corners – A micro photo study
In visual arts, music, and other mediums, minimalism is a style that uses pared-down design elements.
Packaging done perfect – how recyclable materials help our planet
Packaging is the technology of enclosing or protecting products for distribution, storage, sale, and use. Packaging also refers to the process of designing, evaluating, and producing packages.
Fashion photography 101
Fashion photography is a genre of photography which is devoted to displaying clothing and other fashion items. Fashion photography is most often conducted for advertisements or fashion magazines such as Vogue, Vanity Fair, or Elle. Fashion photography has developed its own aesthetic in which the clothes and fashions are enhanced by the presence of exotic
The Rise Of The Art Zine
An art magazine is a publication whose main topic is art. They can be in print form, online, or both and may be aimed at different audiences, including galleries, buyers, amateur or professional artists and the general public. Art magazines can be either trade or consumer magazines or both.
The Mesmerizing Mystery of Shipping Containers
A shipping container is a container with strength suitable to withstand shipment, storage, and handling.
Bauhaus through the ages: a prime coffee table book
Staatliches Bauhaus, commonly known simply as Bauhaus, was a German art school operational from 1919 to 1933 that combined crafts and the fine arts, and was famous for the approach to design that it publicised and taught. The Bauhaus was founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar. The German term Bauhaus—literally „construction house“—was understood as meaning
How to build with sustainable materials
Negative space, in art, is the space around and between the subject(s) of an image. Negative space may be most evident when the space around a subject, not the subject itself, forms an interesting or artistically relevant shape, and such space occasionally is used to artistic effect as the „real“ subject of an image.
JMB Identity – A brief Icelandic interview
One might forfeit one’s right when one takes demo texts personally. These kinds of articles were – and still are – written for demo purposes. Do not take them seriously.
Dynamics of Family Life in Post-Modern Architecture
Postmodern architecture is a style or movement which emerged in the 1960s as a reaction against the austerity, formality, and lack of variety of modern architecture.
Why the chair is the ultimate design challenge for sustainability
Sustainable/ Industrial/ Recycled furniture design is an effort to address the environmental impact of furniture products on the environment by considering all aspects of the design and manufacturing process.
Blanko – A spotlight for nature
Blanko reuses and recycles – a humble practice that has been a common practice for most of human history, with recorded advocates as far back as Plato in 400 BC.