From British advertising agency Mother London and production company Rattling Stick, Plane Stupid raises public awareness on environmental impact of air travel.

Eric Cheung and Sean Martindale “work” to make streets (and illegal advertising spots) greener.

Their blog
PIctures via Torontoist

Which reminds me of a t-shirt I have

photo by alexi hobbs

via flickr

Paper dock from dessine moi un objet.

1. Download the pdf
2. Print it
3. Cut it
4. Done

Why pay for something less original and wasteful?

Iphone Paper Dock / Stand from Dessine moi un objet on Vimeo.

The Virtual Water project > www.traumkrieger.de
300g of beef = 4500 litres of water…

Water is probably one of the most precious resources and vital for everyone’s everyday life. In spite of this obvious fact, people use large amounts of water: drinking, cooking and washing, but even more for producing things such as food, paper, cotton clothes, etc.

One of the most important research papers in this field is Chapagain, A.K. and Hoekstra, A.Y. (2004), »Water footprints of nations«, Value of Water Research Report Series No. 16, UNESCO-IHE, Delft, the Netherlands.
Designer Timm Kekeritz created a poster, visualizing parts of their research data, to make the issue of virtual water and the water footprint perceptible.

The water footprint of a person, company or nation is defined as the total volume of freshwater that is used to produce the commodities, goods and services consumed by the person, company or nation.
The idea of the water footprint is quite similar to the ecological footprint, but focussing on the use of water.

www.traumkrieger.de/virtualwater/

I recently re-discovered the work of Colorado based artist John Fellows. Despite a sporty promised carrier (Fellows was a rugby player) he started sending a zine named PaperCut to anyone he thought would be interesting in his artwork. Things work well and he gets contracts…

Graham Hill at Gel 2009

Graham Hill at Gel 2009 from Gel Conference on Vimeo.