The 4800 Watt Table
Grande Specchio – The Android Mirror
Persian Explosion by Studio Mango
Despite the great heritage behind the traditional rugs, Studio Mango recognized that they were losing appeal with a younger demographic and approached tradition from a new angle. Umbra will be producing the carpet for its 2010 collection.
Kinetic Light Box Sculpture
From @Sebastian_Rohr, a kinetic sculpture & light made of rice paper, “although fragile, Rice paper will last 1000 years (barring any fire), is immune to damp and moths, so weirdly the rice paper will outlast the mild steel that hold the work together. The light is fluorescent, so the lamp is very energy efficient.”
Roughly Drawn Chair – V&A Design Award
The RD (Roughly Drawn) Legs Limited Edition chairs are hand woven from 100% recycled molten plastic waste. Building on the early experimental plastic processes developed by Richard, the design uses no glues or additional fixings in its production.
All we add is heat and skill.”
The RD Chair has been widely recognized as one of the major iconic eco products of the decade and was short listed in the category of innovation in the House and Garden Classic design awards at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum.
These are the final RD chairs produced by Richard as he’ll be hanging up the process soon to concentrate on new work for Cohda.
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Clockwork Love – Tjep
Inspired by the earlier Bling Bling medallion, Tjep layers the wheels and gears of clockwork to form the hearts that make up a new series of pendants and timepieces. Other symbolic elements include wings and flames, all part and parcel of the
complicated mechanism of emotion. Clockwork Love is an expression of wishful thinking, but we all know love
never runs on time.
Akvo Offices
“Akvo is like a Wikipedia, eBay and YouTube for water and sanitation projects, rolled into one.”
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Office Leases & Entertainment Budgets cut Worldwide
Below are the full results from the Servcorp International Business Cost Cutting Survey which was conducted in mid 2009 over a period of two weeks. The survey was commissioned to understand the areas where businesses were looking to save money in the economic downturn. The UK is ranked 3rd in office cutbacks globally.
As part of the survey, Servcorp asked 7,500 international businesspeople from more than 24 nations to identify which countries they believe are surviving the crisis the best.
Office and Administration Cutbacks
The countries which have made the most cutbacks to their combined office lease and office admin costs (ranked form most to least)
| Rank | Country |
| 1st | United States |
| 2nd | China |
| 3rd equal | United Kingdom and Hong Kong |
| 5th | Australia |
| 6th | Singapore |
| 7th equal | Japan |
Areas where the most cutbacks have been made:
Areas of International Cutbacks
The areas where businesses have had to make the most cutbacks averaged across the globe
| Rank | Cutback area |
| 1 | Entertaining and social activity |
| 2 | Office leases |
| 3 | Office administration costs (stationary, newspapers, equipment) |
| 4 | IT costs |
| 5 | Senior staff cuts |
| 6 | Working hours (retaining staff) |
| 7 | Junior staff cuts |
Small Business VS. Big Business
What areas have small businesses made cutbacks compared to larger businesses?
| Cutback area | % of small businesses who made this cutback | % of large businesses who made this cutback |
| Senior staff job losses | 7.6% | 12.5% |
| Junior staff job losses | 6.6% | 8.3% |
| General staff job losses | 11.7% | 29.2% |
| We have retained staff but have cut back our working hours (e.g. to four day working weeks) | 8.6% | 0.0% |
| Cut IT costs | 11.7% | 20.8% |
| Cut Office lease costs | 26.4% | 33.3% |
| Cut Office admin costs (e.g. stationary, newspaper subscriptions etc) | 23.9% | 37.5% |
| Decreased entertaining and social activity costs | 34.5% | 54.2% |
[ Article Source: ServCorp ]
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Porcelain Screen Partition
Creative Papers Sculpture – UN Climate Change Conference
