Non-Woven by Christian Kocx
Dutch Design Week: Designer Christian Kocx presented Non-Woven series of chairs, lamps and bowls, which are made of unwanted bits of plastic from an injection moulding machine. More
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Plumen low-energy bulbs by Hulger
Design company Hulger has created a series of sculptural low-energy bulb prototypes as a reaction against the ugliness of existing products. More
Packaging Lights by Anke Weiss
Dutch Design Week: designer Anke Weiss has created a series of lights from used food and drink packaging. More
Qwerty River recycled keyboards by Secco
Tokyo Design Week: Qwerty River is a collection of objects made from reclaimed keyboard keys. The key rings, hair ties and mobile phone straps by Finnish design collective SECCO were shown at Design Tide in Tokyo earlier this month.
Wind dam by Chetwood Associates
Building Design shows a power-generating "wind dam" designed by architects Chetwoods that uses a giant spinnaker sail slung between mountains to funnel wind into a turbine. More
Tu-Tu by Rock Paper Scissors
Tokyo design week: Japanese design company Rock Paper Scissors has designed a product that acts as both packaging and a display system for fresh flowers. More
Ciudad del Medio Ambiente by Modostudio, Adhoc, Barbarela and Bestbefore architects
A team of four architectural practices (Modostudio, Adhoc, Barbarela and Bestbefore) have won an international competition to design the Ciudad del Medio Ambiente - or Environment City - in Santomera in the Spanish province of Murcia. More
Yarn from old newspapers by Greetje van Tiem
More from the Design Academy Eindhoven graduation show: Greetje van Tiem, a graduate from the academy's Man and Leisure department, presents a project that turns old newspapers into yarn that can be woven into carpets, curtains and upholstery. More
Energy Bucket by Stefano Merlo
Energy Bucket is a concept for a bucket-shaped, solar-powered light designed by Stefano Merlo. The bucket is left outside during the day to charge so it can be used at night. More
Solar Tree by Ross Lovegrove 2
Our friends at Hungarian architecture and design site hg.hu have posted a series of images of Ross Lovegrove's Solar Tree solar-powered street light being installed in Vienna, prior to the official opening tonight. More
Loremo lightweight car concept
The first working prototype of Loremo, an ultra lightweight car concept, was shown at the Frankfurt International Motor Show last month. More
Post A Phone by Priestman Goode
Industrial designers Priestman Goode have invented a simple, cheap landline telephone that fits inside an A5 envelope and can be sent via regular post. More
Rehouse/Bath by Fulguro
Swiss designers Fulguro present their Rehouse/Bath project at the Château d’Avignon at Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer in France. More
Flame Lamps by Gitta Gschwendtner
Gitta Gschwendtner has designed a series of ten lamps that use low-energy candle-effect bulbs. More
Solar Tree by Ross Lovegrove
Solar Tree is a solar-powered street lighting systemdesigned by Ross Lovegrove for the Museum for Angewandte Kunst (MAK) in Vienna. The lighting has been engineered by Artemide in collaboration with Sharp Solar. More
Cyrene Declaration by Foster + Partners
More from Foster: the architect has announced what is described as the world's "largest and most complete sustainable regional development". More
Mater ethical homeware brand
Mater is a new homewares brand with a commitment to sourcing products that are socially and environmentally sustainable. More
Grão by Pedrita
Grão is a project by Portuguese multidisciplinary studio Pedrita that takes surplus decorative tiles and combines them so that each one becomes a single "pixel" in large-scale murals. More
Deptford Design Market Challenge
The Deptford Design Market Challenge is a project exploring how used objects can be "redesigned" to give them new life. More
Greenpeace and Jason Bruges at 100% Light
Greenpeace has commissioned interactive designer Jason Bruges to create an installation using new low-energy lights at the 100% Light show in London later this month. More