Casualties of War: Special Toy Soldiers

Soldiers who since return from duty in Iraq and Afghanistan are involved in brawls, beatings, rapes, drunk driving, drug deals, domestic violence, shootings, stabbings, kidnapping and suicides.

Three times as many veterans and active service members are dying soon after returning home than those being killed in Iraq and Afghanistan combined.

We hear little about the personal hell soldiers live through after returning home.
This is a tribute to them. By Dorothy.

Its pretty harsh but definitely a strong statement. Wonder if there is a similar version of the innocent victims that die during the wars…

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Cardboard USB Drive Concept

Art Lebedev has come up with the idea of making USB flash drives on cardboard, which can be easily torn from a strip, and you can write down the file content on the exterior with a pen and share it!

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Post It Love!

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Modernizing The Christmas Tree

A "modern" twist to the natural and synthetic trees we've grown accustomed to!
Made with 100% recycled cardboard.

Get you Christmas tree here.

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Toy Army Costume

"That was Lucca Comics & Games, a comics/cosplay/rpg/whatever festival which takes place every year in Lucca, Italy."

Nicely done!

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File Formats Go Green!!!

The WWF format is a PDF that cannot be printed out. It’s a simple way to avoid unnecessary printing. So here’s your chance to save trees and help the environment. Decide for yourself which documents don't need printing out – then simply save them as WWF.

SAVE AS WWF, SAVE A TREE

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Food Packaging Into Haute Couture

French designer Katell Gelebart has created a colourful collection of wearable food packaging.

Working with Art D'Eco, a designers' collective that she helped found, DesignBoom reports that Gelebart's motivation to create her line comes from the idea waste is a resource with lots of potential.

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Urinal And Sink Combo

Eco urinal concept, designed by Yeongwoo Kim, recycles the water that is used for washing hands to flush the urine.

The sink with an integrated urinal will also help free up some extra space in the bathroom.

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Lugum: An Elegant Alternative To Plastic Cups

"Lugum" by Kimming Yap of Creativeans, a design studio based in Milan and Singapore.
This simple monochrome crockery set has all the benefits of disposables, without being cheap-looking.

Made out of the biodegradable cereplast bioplastic, "Lugum" is also a more eco-friendly alternative to those plastic cups.

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Starbucks Recycled Mugs

These recycled ceramic mugs were brought to life in a zero-waste factory in Japan, which reuses the clay of former mugs and dishes to create new ones. It’s a story of reuse and renewal that is told from mug to package. The particles coming together to form words and shapes represent a renewed respect for resources.

Alice Friedel found the way to give broken pieces of ceramic a new life and make them  beautiful and whole again!

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