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Entries tagged “green”
recycle that newspaper box (discovered via Free People)
sort of a sad concept just because of what those flowers are replacing, but cute
wondering why didn’t I think of that?
Heineken Green Line designed by
Ora-Ïto (via TheDieline.com)
“Trend analysts Chris Sanderson and Martin Raymond from the London firm The Future Laboratory put together crEATe.: Eating, Design and Future Food (Gestalten) as a survey of contemporary food culture…”
The popular UK fair trade organic tea brand, Clipper, is undergoing a full redesign after many years. They started with the relaunch of their Everyday Tea (which will soon be followed by the Green, and Infusions tea lines). The makeovers for other lines are still under wraps. Clipper will be unveiling their new packaging in stages, and have notified loyal customers by including a small card about the redesign inside their tea boxes over the last several months.
The previous packaging was known and positively acknowledged for its simplistic and clean design, credited to Williams Murray Hamm. Design and marketing consultancy, Big Fish, is working on the current brand makeover. Though we liked the earlier packaging for Clipper, the fresh brand redesign has a friendly and warm aesthetic which may be better suited for their tea drinking audience.
Reviewing the Kindle 2 on Good’s blog
“The acceptance of a new technology isn’t always an either/or question. It depends on a matrix of advantages and disadvantages. Successful products obsolesce their predecessors only when those disadvantages begin to be heavily outweighed by the advantages. I think e-paper devices, whether Kindle-branded or simply generic, will eventually become a ubiquitous part of everyday life, especially as the color and resolution approaches that of paper…”—Joel Johnson
Acceptance of e-readers as a mainstream alternative to books is difficult for me, though I have to admit my Sony E-Reader is quite convenient for reading manuscripts. And I do have this new Amazon Kindle on my wishlist.
a GOOD Transparency video collaboration with Garrett Morin
“While carbon emissions may be the current cause célèbre of the environmental movement, let’s not forget the more tangible waste products we are unleashing upon the earth. Annually, households and businesses throw out 251 million tons of trash…”
