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Setting Sail

Posted on January 25th by Shae Davidson.
A recent collaboration between SkySails and the Bremen-based Beluga Group has culminated in the trial transoceanic run of a wind-powered cargo ship.  The MS Beluga SkySails left ...
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interknit

Posted on December 3rd by Leonardo Bonanni.
netGranny is a revolutionary service where consumers directly commission grandmothers in switzerland to custom-knit socks for them. it has the spirit of transparency of programs like dole’s organic ...
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photovoltaic payback

Posted on November 29th by Leonardo Bonanni.
with solar panels (once again) the craze, a lot of discussion goes into whether they are truly efficient and whether they do the environment any good. most solar cells require ...

An Open Book

Posted on November 9th by Shae Davidson.
  An exhibition supported by the Smithsonian Institution and the Washington Project for the Arts in the 1990s used seminal titles in science writing as the inspiration for works that re-imagined ...
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Storytelling with Cards and Cubes

Posted on November 7th by Shae Davidson.
London-based think tank Proboscis provides a setting in which artists and scholars can explore the relationship between individuals, communities, and the environment, and create tools through which people can articulate ...
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Tom Paine in PDF

Posted on October 31st by Shae Davidson.
Diffusion provides a way for researchers and artists to share low-cost broadsides and pamphlets through templates for PDF documents.  While sharing PDF files is not exactly new, Diffusion consciously chose to ...
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carpenter shelter

Posted on October 18th by Leonardo Bonanni.
at the cooper hewitt’s lackluster ‘design for the other 90%‘ exhibit i was puzzled by the ‘day labor station:’ a well-intentioned shelter for immigrant day laborers who ...
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stop&chop

Posted on October 15th by Leonardo Bonanni.
i’ve been posting for a long time about open design, or the free dissemination of design knowledge. ponoko is a site that allows you to share designs for furniture ...
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snug-fab

Posted on October 11th by Leonardo Bonanni.
mass customization is only slowly gaining ground in industries such as automobiles, and usually only with cosmetic choices like the color of seats. a number of shoe manufacturers have interfaces ...
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paperCAD

Posted on October 4th by Leonardo Bonanni.
papercraft is the most versatile personal fabrication system: all you need is a printer, scissors and glue. now there’s a CAD for papercraft called pepakura that unfolds any three-dimensional ...