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...panhandlers, performers, and protestors of Harvard Square will soon compete with a new fusion of art and advertisement to win the attention of tourists and townies alike. On November 1, Lumen Eclipse—a local design and advertising company—will install two 42-inch plasma televisions on opposite sides of the Cambridge Office for Tourism’s information kiosk in the pit. One of the displays will show various video art pieces, while the other will display silent advertisements for local businesses. Lumen Eclipse co-founder Rory P. Keohane said that because the Square attracts heavy...
...show, with art from the U.S., Europe and Japan, assaults most of the senses with concert posters, films, photographs, light shows, soundtracks and an installation?Phantasy Landscape Visiona II (1970) by Danish furniture designer Verner Panton?that resembles a colorful digestive tract designed to be crawled around in. The Fool, a three-person design team employed by the Beatles, created the poster A Is for Apple (1967), with its warped landscape, stars, parrots and smiling Native American. It demonstrates how designers of psychedelia recycled old kitsch: Art Nouveau squiggles, Pre-Raphaelite paintings, Victorian advertisements and early Hollywood movies. Thanks...
...made from discarded computer printers. Pencil cases fashioned from old tires. These eye-catching and eco-friendly items hint at the truly remarkable range of uses for recycled office materials. A British company?called, natch, Remarkable?has developed a line of stationery supplies that demonstrates how ingenuity and good design can make trash flash. Ed Douglas Miller, an agricultural economist with experience of plastics engineering, dreamt up Remarkable in his London bedsit in 1996. After devising a technique for turning used plastic cups into pencils, Miller followed up with ways to turn polystyrene packaging into rulers, tires into pencil cases...
...sounds like a far-off dream: The home that heats and cools itself for free and actually generates a bit more juice than it consumes, so that the power utility might even send you a check for supplying energy to the grid. But with commonsense design principles and a little help from technology, the house of the future can be yours...
Civilians can benefit too. Iowa Thin Film Technologies already sells solar-powered radio headsets and rolls of its 13-in.-wide electricity-making plastic through a business unit, PowerFilm Solar. Konarka has partnered with another firm to design juice-generating clothing. For day hikers, Washington-based Reware sells backpacks embedded with lightweight, sun-sensitive plastic chargers that can juice cell phones and iPods. Roughing it has never been easier...