Trend Hunter | posted on May 16, 2008

The Solid car was designed by Nikita Gutsalenko, a student at the Product Design and Transport Design at the Ural State Academy of Architecture and Arts, Russia. The aim of Gutsalenko’s design is to help solve the issue of overcrowded parking spaces.The concept car comes with the standard safety features such as seatbelts and airbags, but also comes equipped with more advanced safety features installed in the front and back of the vehicle.

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core jr | posted on May 1, 2008

The Designers Accord is a grassroots movement aiming to integrate sustainable thinking into design practice. This month, Core77 will integrate the list of design firm adopters of Designers Accord into the Design Directory– …read full discussion

Best of the Green Web | posted on April 30, 2008

It’s Wednesday, April 30th, and the green trend has carried beyond “Earth Week” and into the rest of the calendar. Greening and sustainability are all the rage around the Web, and here are some of the things people are talking about…

• Chevy made news this week with the announcement that its prototype lithium-ion battery-powered Volt is operational.
• The Sustainable Style Foundation is blogging continuously about ways to live green and look good doing it.
• Treehugger is talking about options for a sustainable workspace.
• Apex Hotels in the UK is using the blogosphere to get the word out about their sustainable efforts.
• Sustainable living is news internationally, inspiring posts on Africa and Asia– in addition to the US & UK!
• We’ll wrap with this post on recycled elements in a beautiful desk.

Allan Chochinov | posted on April 24, 2008

I don’t like the word manifesto. It reeks of dogma and rules—two things I instinctually reject. I do love the way it puts things on the line, but I don’t like lines, or groups. So a manifesto probably isn’t for me. The other thing about manifestos is that they appear (or are written so as to appear) self-evident. This kind of a priori writing is easy, since you simply lay out what seems obviously—even tautologically—true. Of course, this is the danger of manifestos, but also what makes them fun to read. And fun to write. So I’ll write this manifesto. I just might not sign it. …read full discussion