Design

ZARA Fast Fashion Retailer Under Fire for Polluting China’s Waterways

Tafline Laylin - November 27, 2012

Spanish fast fashion company Zara has come under intense fire recently for failing to address a Greenpeace report released last year outlining the textile...

Design

10 Cool Garbage Cans for Middle East Trash

Faisal O'Keefe - February 18, 2021

Would innovative waste disposal devices make for tidier Jordanians? Year Two in the Hashemite Kingdom, and my honeymoon with Amman is kaput. It’s impossible to...

Design

Clever Tel-O-Porter Bike Trailer Boosts Israel’s Shared Bike Program

Tafline Laylin - November 1, 2012

Just when we thought that urban cycling had reached its zenith, Israeli designer Udi Rimon essentially rendered Tel Aviv's cars redundant with his design...

Design

Israelis Design Cardboard Wheelchairs for Africa

Tafline Laylin - October 31, 2012

Izhar Gafni and the same team behind the already world-famous cardboard bicycle have added a few other items to their repertoire, including a cardboard...

Design

Eco Craft That Junk Drawer Into Toddler Discovery Toy

Faisal O'Keefe - October 26, 2012

Execute some alchemy and turn random junk and recyclables into a smart toy for your toddler. This takes so little time and attracts such rave...

Design

Enter the Biomimicry Design Competition for a Shot at $5,000

Tafline Laylin - October 15, 2012

This is the fourth time that the Biomimicry 3.8 institute is staging their international design competition and this year they are inviting students to...

Design

Wake Up To These 7 Eco-Clocks

Faisal O'Keefe - October 11, 2012

Mornings are getting darker. Need a pick me up? Tick tock: try an eco clock. Israel daylight savings already sent summertime packing, but the rest of...

Design

Electree’s Solar Bonsai Tree to Electrify Our Techno Toys

Faisal O'Keefe - September 23, 2012

Where’s a charger when you need one? My device-addicted household is always running short on chargers for cell phones and laptops and iPods. I...

Design

Egyptian Mummy Gets a LEGO Heart at Cambridge Universtiy

Tafline Laylin - September 20, 2012

An engineering student used LEGO to help restore an ancient Egyptian mummy case at Cambridge University. The 10th Century BC Hor Mummy case excavated...

Design

650 Handcrafted Oak Pieces Went Into This Fine Mashrabiya Table

Tafline Laylin - September 17, 2012

Mashrabiya screens are a common element in Middle Eastern architecture and yet few people outside the design world realize how much work goes into...

Design

Waterless Dishwasher From Turkey Cleans up After Every Meal

Tafline Laylin - September 17, 2012

Turkish designers who anticipate severe water shortages in the next few decades have designed the dualWash - a waterless dish washer that cleans single dishes...

Design

Clothing Laced With Live Bacteria is Weirdly Cool

Tafline Laylin - October 2, 2022

Sarine Zaken is the world's first designer to incorporate living bacteria into clothing and jewelry that people can actually wear! A third year student...

Design

Mud and Mirrors Make Interactive Eco-Art in Morocco

Tafline Laylin - September 6, 2012

Icelandic artist Elín Hansdóttir has combined mud and mirrors in this unusual interactive eco-art exhibit for Morocco. Designed as part of the Marrakech Biennale earlier...

Design

Turn Disposable Water Bottle into Pencil Case: Upcycling Tutorial

Aya Tager - September 6, 2012

Now that the kids are back at school, time to go green and continue the celebrations with this back-to-school tutorial. Parents will need to...

Design

Dror Benshetrit’s VIP Hub for Exclusive Cross-over Designers

Kelly Milone - September 3, 2012

Developing a new ecosystem for multi-disciplinary design? Will this need high-end design hub earmark space for sustainable design? If you think Ikea has got the...

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