At this point the term sustainability isn't even sustainable. Greenwashing, leaf logos. It's getting tired fast. Nevertheless, as L. Hunter Lovins explains, there is a business case for taking sustainability seriously rather than simply trying to sel [...]
I stumbled across the book Paper in Architecture by Shigeru Ban and was really impressed with his use of paper tubes as a building material. They're actually an impressive alternative to wood and other common raw materials.
Biomimicry, as I would describe it, is the goal of reproducing nature's solutions to problems. Problems like, how do I stay alive? And how can I live better?
Spanish designer Jaime Hayon continually impresses me. His latest project, the Smart Grid Gallery, is a lovely showcase of objects inspired by solar and wind energy.
It's been a long time coming for the electric car, and as Europe rushes to solidify their plan of action for the move away from oil, many nations eyes are fixed on Denmark.
In 2006, an eleven-mile wide, ten-foot tall blue fence was built around Hackney Wick and Stratford in East London. Andy Beckett from The Guardian called it "the colour of the future." The fence was recently taken down. So what happened to all that pl [...]
40 years ago, a small crew of filmmakers set out to document some of the more pressing issues involving wildlife in America. They made eight half-hour films around the country -– it ended up being the first environmental tv series in the US.
So yeah, people build stuff out of bottles, that we know, but few know of one particularly laudable endeavor undertaken by Heineken Breweries: the WOBO (World Bottle).
Earlier this year, high fashion house Hermès and iconic Monaco yacht brand Wally unveiled a revolutionary mega yacht named WHY, an acronym for Wally Hermès Yachts.
I decided to revisit Interstuhl, one of our favorite furniture design companies, touching on what we've considered to be the absolute pinnacle of industrial design perfection. Honestly though, what can I say that Christy hasn't already covered previo [...]
Apparently this studio was one of the first sophisticated, wold-class, environmentally friendly, audio / visual studios started by Andre Perry in 1974 (a 1962 Grand Prix du Disque award winning studio musician).
"Design needs to make an emotional connection with the character of materials and their use; layer by layer must be peeled away in order to reach the heart of meaning and discover a new context. It was our aim to make the technical complexity in Silv [...]
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Colorcubic is the multidisciplinary creative studio of Christy Lai & Michael John. We are visual communicators, information architects and purveyors of usable aesthetics. The studio is equipped to handle everything from web design & development, branding, print design to motion graphics. Our blog is a growing library of things that inspire and excite us. We hope that you’ll be inspired as a result. Thanks for reading.
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