]> http://www.greenedia.com/tags/industrial-design Blog Articles Tagged with 'industrial-design' at http://www.greenedia.com en http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/153935?rsstype=tag&tag=industrial-design It is that time of year that everyone makes predictions, and looks at predictions made a year ago; here is one that was made quite a bit earlier. It is sad that we live in a world where Norman Bel Geddes is more famous for being the father of Barbara... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/153935?rsstype=tag&tag=industrial-design Sat, 27 Dec 2008 08:03:17 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/world-is-changing/150768?rsstype=tag&tag=industrial-design By Bruce SterlingRecent events have clearly established that the character of the times has changed. The Viridian Design Movement was founded in distant 1999. After the years transpiring various disasters, wars, financial collapses and a major c... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/world-is-changing/150768?rsstype=tag&tag=industrial-design Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:18:20 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/142724?rsstype=tag&tag=industrial-design Japan Industrial Design Promotion Organization is a venerable old institution that has slowly realized the value of eco in design. Their Good Design Award has developed into a comprehensive design evaluation system that centers on industrial produc... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/142724?rsstype=tag&tag=industrial-design Mon, 20 Oct 2008 09:53:27 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/cnet-green-tech-blog/139014?rsstype=tag&tag=industrial-design Featured links from the CNET Blog Network Gates-Seinfeld schtick more viral than 'I'm a PC'--The two Gates-Seinfeld commercials have enjoyed 4.3 million more viral-video views than Microsoft's replacement I'm a PC campaign, according to Visible Mea... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/cnet-green-tech-blog/139014?rsstype=tag&tag=industrial-design Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:13:00 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/cnet-green-tech-blog/139186?rsstype=tag&tag=industrial-design Featured links from the CNET Blog Network Gates-Seinfeld schtick more viral than 'I'm a PC'--The two Gates-Seinfeld commercials have enjoyed 4.3 million more viral-video views than Microsoft's replacement I'm a PC campaign, according to Visible Mea... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/cnet-green-tech-blog/139186?rsstype=tag&tag=industrial-design Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:13:00 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/137512?rsstype=tag&tag=industrial-design James Dyson is a man who likes to make things work better. He is sort of the Steve Jobs of industrial design, looking at problems and coming up with elegant and effective solutions. The airblade is like that; it uses 80% less energy than a conventi... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/137512?rsstype=tag&tag=industrial-design Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:42:46 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/world-is-changing/134486?rsstype=tag&tag=industrial-design This article was written by Alex Steffen in June 2007. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective.We carry its marks, but the machine age is dead to us -- oh, the assembly lines roll on in Mexico, the coal stacks sti... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/world-is-changing/134486?rsstype=tag&tag=industrial-design Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:50:25 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/131473?rsstype=tag&tag=industrial-design A few years ago, after my laptop was stolen, I tried to see if I could do everything that I previously used a computer for in my Palm Treo. I bought a folding keyboard, good headphones, word processing software and more so that my office could fit in... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/131473?rsstype=tag&tag=industrial-design Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:20:15 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/world-is-changing/130398?rsstype=tag&tag=industrial-design We've often written about the concept of leapfrogging to describe what happens when a non-industrialized country surpasses old, harmful technologies or systems (now causing industrialized nations problems) to get to new sustainable innovations and ... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/world-is-changing/130398?rsstype=tag&tag=industrial-design Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:08:52 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/130310?rsstype=tag&tag=industrial-design Industrial design site Core77 runs incredible contests where designers are supposed to spend no more than an hour coming up with responses to a challenge; in this case it was to reinvent the backpack. Whenever they do these things I can never believe... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/130310?rsstype=tag&tag=industrial-design Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:30:46 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/gristmill/128114?rsstype=tag&tag=industrial-design By Guest author The following is a guest essay from Peter Montague, executive director of the Environmental Research Foundation. ----- Vaclav Smil is a historian of technical advances -- particularly in the field of energy -- and a Distinguished P... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/gristmill/128114?rsstype=tag&tag=industrial-design Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:20:02 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/inhabitat/127807?rsstype=tag&tag=industrial-design This past week showcased the A+: The Young Designer's Platform at Accent on Design/The New York International Gift Fair, and new organics' designer Stanley Ruiz was featured as one of the bright young stars on the design scene. You might recall th... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/inhabitat/127807?rsstype=tag&tag=industrial-design Sat, 23 Aug 2008 12:00:20 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/126994?rsstype=tag&tag=industrial-design Bruno Taylor, completing his Masters in Industrial Design at Central Saint Martins in the University of the Arts in London, writes: 71% of adults used to play on the streets when they were young. 21% of children do so now. Are we designing children... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/126994?rsstype=tag&tag=industrial-design Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:32:42 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/sustainablog/126719?rsstype=tag&tag=industrial-design This is a guest post by Aaron Szymanski, President of Evo Design, an award-winning industrial design firm housed in a refurbished water treatment plant in Watertown, CT.The good thing about the economy sucking cheese right now is that it's given me s... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/sustainablog/126719?rsstype=tag&tag=industrial-design Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:02:35 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/124836?rsstype=tag&tag=industrial-design The architectural profession is broken in the single-family house biz; the vast majority of people live in houses that were built by developers from generic plans. The number of houses designed by architects to suit the needs of specific clients is n... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/124836?rsstype=tag&tag=industrial-design Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:22:15 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/123855?rsstype=tag&tag=industrial-design I know quite a few people who could take advantage of some of the ideas that Industrial design students Valentin Engler, Marius Morger and Daniel Grolimund came up with for their final project. They note that In urban Switzerland more than every fou... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/123855?rsstype=tag&tag=industrial-design Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:07:27 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/ecogeek/115864?rsstype=tag&tag=industrial-design In a world of over-packaging, why not take the packaging and make something useful of it? An industrial design student at Sheffield Hallam University in the U.K. has built a cheap, ecological transport. Ta-dah! A cardboard bike.Phil Bridge doesn't h... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/ecogeek/115864?rsstype=tag&tag=industrial-design Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:07:12 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/103519?rsstype=tag&tag=industrial-design OCAD student Michael Tampilic presented Vert Rain Terrace at the Rocket 2008 industrial design show. It is an interesting combination of rainwater harvesting and green wall.... ... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/103519?rsstype=tag&tag=industrial-design Mon, 12 May 2008 15:49:36 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/103447?rsstype=tag&tag=industrial-design When we first covered Rocket 2008, I wrote about a few entries in the sustainability category. However when visiting the exhibit on the weekend we saw some pretty remarkable work in the natural disaster category. Andrew Leinonin proposes Solarial, ... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/103447?rsstype=tag&tag=industrial-design Mon, 12 May 2008 12:05:25 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/sustainablog/103457?rsstype=tag&tag=industrial-design If you go to the mass retailers today, it's likely that you're going to pay more for sustainably designed, developed, manufactured and shipped products. In some cases, like my Timberland boots, the products will be superior in all ways that matter an... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/sustainablog/103457?rsstype=tag&tag=industrial-design Mon, 12 May 2008 09:39:44 -0400