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"So what's this all about? Well, turns out that long established Soho record shop, Harold Moores (specialist in classical and jazz releases), is closing for a re-fit. In order to prepare the shop for its revamp, staff are chucking out thousands and thousands of records (well over 20,000 by my reckoning) - which were dumped, rather unceremoniously, in a skip outside the premises...

But that's not to say the records are destined for landfill just yet. During my lunchbreak I stumbled across this scene of vinyl hungry people clambering over each other to grab a few vintage slabs of wax..."

Shit car

Not really... it just runs on it. Your shit - or methane from it to be precise...



Great idea - read more and watch the video over at the Beeb

You can't win...

Art pair Ghost of a Dream use recycled lottery tickets to decorate things you'd buy if you won the lottery...







More here

Robot action

Lockwasher makes lovely robots from found objects...







See lots more over at Design Boom

Nature's finest

Anna Garforth has some really diverse type and idea work using natural stuff and recycling, etc - we suggest you check her site out for more - but here's a smattering of bits...

Leaf typography...



A deer out of bark...



A spot of guerrilla gardening using recycled and decorated milk cartons..



Recovering tree branches with fallen leaves...



Moss typopgraphy...

The Wave Pictures - Sweetheart promo

All made from second hand books...

The Wave Pictures - Sweetheart from Ben Reed on Vimeo.

Power up

This power station in Roombeek, the Netherlands is designed to develop a sensibility for the consumption of energy and sustainable cohabitation. Looks stunning, lovely tiles and a great idea to make something visible and with a message - when most other power stations strive to be invisible within the landscape...







Read a bit more at ArchDaily

Trunk CO2 tool

Nitipak Samsen has designed a measuring tape that calculates the amount of CO2 absorbed by a tree through measuring the trunk’s circumference...

Wattson

Is a sexy way to measure energy consumption in the home, save money, save the world.



It looks seriously good:

And check out the demo video here

Spider boy

What a dude...



More over at Inhabitat

Stop the water

Finally someone has done this...



Buy and read more here

Newspaper sculptures

NYC urban artist Nick Georgiou creates organic sculptures out of old newspapers, depositing them in random locations around the city...





More over on Flavour Wire

Oil

First up this great infographics / timeline of the history of oil:



The second, this website which puts the scale of the BP oil spill in context and it makes grim viewing:

A waste of energy

Very good...

No Trash NYC

Lovely vision of a trashless NYC by Ideo...

NO TRASH NYC 2030 from IDEO on Vimeo.

Direct from their site: "As part of Living Climate Change, IDEO New York imagines Manhattan in 2030 as a city without trash. When most people consider the environmental impact of trash, steamy landfills and smoky incinerators come to mind. The reality, however, is that these are merely endpoints of a much larger system. Come take a look or view more scenarios at Living Climate Change, a place to discuss the most defining design challenge of our time."

Floppy disk plant pot

Here's how to make one

The Plastiki Expedition

David de Rothschild, a 31-year-old English banking heir and environmental daredevil along with his team of hand picked scientists are on a mission, to address the issue of sustainability with the creation of Plastiki. An all around environmentally friendly masterpiece, the Plastiki is a 60-foot catamaran floating on approximately 12,000 reclaimed whole plastic bottles which have been highly pressurized. The masts are made out of reclaimed aluminum irrigation pipes, while the ropes are also made from recycled plastics.



Read more at the official site

Sustainable Design

UTI recently sent Shahnaz, one of our designers, down to a Sustainable Design workshop to learn more about how we can improve the way we work in sustainable terms. There's a little write up below with some links if you want to delve deeper.

But make sure you read the presentation Shahnaz has made from her notes. Good stuff.

It was pretty shocking to realise how much we don’t consider. It goes way beyond just recycling paper in the office.

The workshop was held by Three Trees Don’t Make A Forest a not-for-profit social enterprise set up by directors of three established and successful agencies – Sophie Thomas of thomas.matthews, Caroline Clark of Lovely As A Tree, and Nat Hunter of Airside.

It was a pretty intense 2 hour session of information, but I’ve attempted to collate as much as I could and share it with you guys. Please view the presentation at full screen if you can.

Sustainable Design

And if you want more on this topic go to Design Can Change and Greengaged.

Rubbish

Paul Smith is one of a host of creative talents that has designed new bins for the City of London. Paul's rabbits ear's light up when you put rubbish in them.



More here

60 Bag

These bags are great. They naturally decompose after 60 days and they look pretty sweet too with different styles, etc.





Check out more here