Design

Israel’s Caravan Collective Puts the E in Cycling Apparel

Caravan Collective is a fresh new cycling apparel studio from Israel that fuses quirky graphic design with a passion for cycling, people, and the...

Mediterranean Net-Zero Home Based on 3,500-Year-Old Israeli Design

Team Israel is all pumped up to show off their design skills at the upcoming 2013 international Solar Decathlon competition in China with All ...

Israel’s Itay Kirshenbaum Grows Backyard Furniture

What is up with Israeli designers? On the whole, they're an eco-conscious group that use their creative genius to churn out groundbreaking designs, but...

Yariv Goldfarb Uses 3D-Printing to ‘Play with Poop’

We've seen a lot of really useful applications for 3D printing, but Yariv Goldfarb's graduation project for the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem is not one of them: printing plastic molds in order to "play with poop."

George Orwell Never Imagined These Deluxe Farms for Bees and Animals

Animals have a hard life in the Middle East. Working beasts endure grueling outdoor elements and pet culture is unfamiliar.  In a region where...

Bird’s Nest: Solar-Powered Studio Perches on School Roofs

Onat Öktem, Ziya Imren and Zeynep Öktem are among the most exciting eco-minded architects working in Turkey, and Bird's Nest is also among their most unique...

HUSH: A Seating Pod that Creates Privacy Anywhere

HUSH is a brilliant seating pod designed by Freyja Sewell that creates a small tucked away spot anywhere - even in the most crowded...

Lush Green Terraces Top the Palestine Museum by Heneghan Peng

Dublin's Heneghan Peng has designed a new museum for Palestine that is topped with a series of unfolding green terraces planted with vegetation that...

Dubai: World’s Largest Airport Greens Up its Act

Dubai International, soon to be the world's largest airport, is focusing on sustainability with its newly proposed concourse D. The wing, which is the...

Cristal: a Salt-Covered Leisure Center for the Dying Dead Sea

The Dead Sea garnered international attention when photographer Spencer Tunick assembled a gang of naked nature enthusiasts for a controversial photo shoot, but the momentum...

Aerodynamic ARPT Headquarters Diverts Algiers’ Hot Desert Winds Naturally

The same Italian design firm that designed a fleet of eco-schools for Gaza has won an international competition to design the headquarters of Algeria's...

First Green-Roofed Urban Oasis Planned for Abu Dhabi

Albeit better than neighboring Dubai's skyline of what renowned architect Frank Gehry calls "cheap" and "anonymous" architecture, Abu Dhabi has grown into a...

Grow Your Own Living Clothes with BioCouture During Beirut Design Week

If you are a designer eager to find more sustainable material choices for your creative inventions, you might want to hit the BioCouture workshop...

Ron Arad Immortalizes Six Fiat 500s by Crushing Them for Israeli Art Exhibit

Israeli artist and designer Ron Arad has expressed his love of Fiat 500s in a curious way as part of an art exhibition at...

4 Ways to Green Your Gold

Middle Easterners blessed with oil wealth love to flaunt their gold. Don't be surprised to find gold bars sold at dispensing machine in Dubai...

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