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now that's smart!

It is my hope that Indiana residents realize we can really can live beautifully and more fully with so much less - Sustainable is smart and should be looked at seriously as an alternative to the suburban sprawl going on here and in America..where lack of interest in design and quality is replaced with big and cheap. Continue

Added by liz on March 23, 2008 at 7:00am — No Comments

reincarnation

recently I also saw the work of Dutch designer Wendy Plomp - cardboard carpets "message in a box" in ELLE Decor and I was so amazed!! Cardboard is probably the cheapest industrial packaging material available on the market. Any image that is printed onto this typically throwaway material can turn into a design object. perfect example how something that can have a second life even BETTER than their first one! and we need really is to THINK BIGGER.… Continue

Added by liz on February 28, 2008 at 6:00am — No Comments

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