90 degree Furniture

So you aren’t satisfied with your folding chairs, huh? You say that your sleeping bag isn’t cutting it anymore. You want true flatness. You want to be able to really fold your furniture up. Kaptein and Bolt will flatten it out for you. Here’s 90° Furniture for your paper-thin, flippy-floppy world.

90° Furniture described by its designers Louwrien Kaptein and Menno Bolt:

Een interieur voor een antikraakbewoner/kunstenaar, bestaande uit 4 delen:
werkunit
zit- en slaapunit
kookunit
opbergunit

Twee gesloten panelen draaien open tot een hoek van 90˚. Ieder onderdeel is een ruimteverdeler en een functioneel meubel, naar believen in of uit te klappen. Het interieur is gemakkelijk te (ver)plaatsen en is toepasbaar in elke ruimte.

And in English!

An interior for an [artist] consisting of 4 parts:
Work Unit
Sitting and Sleeping Unit
Cooking Unit
Storage Unit

Two closed panels rotate open to an angle of 90 degrees. Each component is a room divider and a functional piece of furniture, allowing unlimited combinations. The interior is easy to replace and is applicable to each room.

I imagine these working best in places where they reach floor to ceiling. Yes? More room needed, and quite possibly more attention necessary payed unto unused space. This project also reminds one of a [similar project] made of cardboard. Possibly some recycled materials are in the 90° future?

Also if the translation has terrible mistakes, please notify! Noone hates bad Dutch translations more than me!

Designers: Louwrien Kaptein & Menno Bolt

I think the furniture design will really serve people in Xiuning ,which makes their home more spacial and clean.And also A great furniture design will change their life dramatically.

Scrap Wood Furniture

Making something out of nothing

In our cult of the new and the shiny, it’s sometimes refreshing to remember that it’s possible to make new things out of old things that look old. No, seriously, it’s possible. And Jan Korbes Garbage Architecture has many projects to prove it. Coming from the Gordon Matta-Clark school of architecture, Jan Korbes follows a lot of threads at once. There are a lot of small furniture pieces involving scrap wood and recycled car tires. Some are interesting, some you’ve seen before, but in every instance he doesn’t stop experimenting.

Where it starts to get really interesting is when the objects start to become architecture, or pieces of architecture. The Zee Stair is a great example: an old harbor pole is sawn again to become a beautiful, unexpected stair. Sinus Stairs II takes this a step farther by recycling old doors to create a screen-like staircase, one that begins to take on the mass and shape of a building. Optrek Tranvaal takes recovered doors from other projects and recycles them into a skylight/balcony cut not unlike some of Matta-Clark’s late proposals, where the envelope of the building is cut to create something entirely new. This is someone we’re going to be checking in on from time to time. We can’t wait for the truly big projects to begin.

Designer: Jan Korbes Garbage

Design for Poverty winners

Via:http://www.yankodesign.com/2008/10/30/design-for-poverty-winners/

GOLD Rain Drops-by Evan Gant (USA)

Rain water is a largely untapped resource, especially in many developing countries where clean water is scarce. Water harvesting consists of three main components: a catchment area (generally a roof), a gutter system and a water storage area. The water storage area is by far the most expensive portion of this system, which makes it out of reach for many families. The RainDrops system simply allows people to adapt standard plastic bottles to an existing gutter system to collect rain water. This changes water storage from the most to the least expensive part of the system. These are much easier to clean and replace than larger storage units. The repurposing of these plastic bottles will also give value to many bottles that are otherwise headed for landfills. Corruption in the water sector is a real problem in many developing countries. The scalability of this system helps to give more power to the communities in need.
For many communities in the developing world a lack of good hygiene can have deadly consequences. Washing your hands is one of the best ways to prevent the distribution of bacteria. Nearly six thousand children in Kenya die each year from diarrheal diseases, and it is estimated that the simple act of proper hand washing could cut that number in half (kwaho.org). The RainDrops system includes an attachment that allows people to create running water to wash their hands.
Another large benefit to using plastic bottles as a water collection system is that it fits in nicely with the process called SODIS, which uses a combination of the suns UV rays and heat to remove pathogenic microorganisms that cause disease. This process is spreading across many developing countries due to its effectiveness and low cost.
Ultimately the goal of this system is to create a means for people to be able to collect water, which is an essential resource for life. By helping them relieve the monetary burden in an essential area like access to clean water, people will have more economic flexibility to start address unmet needs in other areas.

HONORABLE MENTION - Education for All by Brian Cuellar (Colombia)

In many parts of the world the education programs are inadequate, mostly in the third world countries. This right does not reach the most vulnerable communities. It has been said before but education IS the key to solving all our problems, even poverty.
Education for All is based around a book-mobile. Most impoverished children in the world have never even see a book. The system has storage for books, didactic materials, and lesson plans. It can be transported by a truck, motorcycle or even a helicopter to the most remote regions. It is made in fiber glass which doubles as a wonderful white board to conduct lessons with.

[Just for fun] 看看国外的创意

想戒烟吗，咬咬这只笔吧

戒烟的人总希望抽的是最后一根烟。

想戒烟，换上这种烟灰缸吧

每片花瓣就是一根火柴，当你把它拔出来，它就会 被点燃，然后慢慢燃烧 。

只是这么美丽的火柴，你是否忍心把它点燃？

有没有见过钉板，就是在一块板上布满铁钉，我小时候就见过杂耍的躺在钉板上胸口碎大石。以前觉得很厉害，其实铁钉在上面铺的很密也没什么的。现在就有人做出了类似的长凳，只不过把铁钉换成了铅笔。这款长凳上总共插满了 1600 支铅笔，很有想象力的设计。

这款盘子在边沿巧妙的设计了一个弯角，可以使它像衣服一样的挂着。如果你没有存放盘子的地方，可以试试用这种盘子，只需在厨房里拉条线就可以了。

商机啊！

不知道是哪位老兄想出来的注意，不过应该是一个环保人士。现在在提倡节约型社会，有了这种卫生纸，应该可以让我们更直观得去节约吧，至少在上厕所这件事上。：）

这款牙刷的牙刷头采用人体造型，有男有女，而且造型各不相同哦，很有意思。另外因为它采用人形设计，那些圆圆的脑袋对牙龈就不会损伤。

千万不要背这款背包上街，会被警察抓的。

如果还没有人送你钻戒，那就买个这样的杯子送给自己吧。

捧着它喝水的时候，是不是像戴着一颗特大的钻戒啊，很闪哦。

平时我们要喝冰的酒或者饮料时是通过加入冰块来降温的，那为什么不把杯子做成冰的呢？通过这个容器就可以做到了。它是类似于冰箱里做冰块的塑料模具，只要在里面加入水或者你喜欢的酒和饮料，放入冰箱，这样一个漂亮的水晶杯就做成了。

很恶搞的一只手表，整个表面以一幅人物肖像为底，两撇搞笑的八字胡就是它的时针和分针了，而秒针呢，就是那只一直在爬行的蚂蚁。

没条件自己煮咖啡，一般喝的都是雀巢速溶，要求不高，喝喝感觉还可以。不过速溶咖啡有一点比较不方便，就是需要一根筷子或调羹来搅拌。而这种棒棒糖速溶咖啡就省了这个麻烦，搅拌几下就可以喝了，相对来说更加方便。很有创意的设计，不过就是不知道调出来的口味怎么样。

设计这款抱枕的设计师一定是 DOS 的爱好者。用惯了 XP 或者 VISTA 的你，是不是还记得那些 DOS 命令呢？

传统茶业制作器具展示

摇青笼

烤茶箩

茶篓 找到的这些图片有些没办法准确的叫出它们的名字，也不确定它们具体的功能，发上来大家参考一下。

贫困山区的孩子们

Information about design for agriculture

Agroprocessing

Agriculture alone is not always able to provide a reliable livelihood for the growing populations in many developing countries. Alternative or additional income generating opportunities are needed to support the millions of poor families who can no longer support their livelihoods from the land alone.

Agroprocessing - turning primary agricultural products into other commodities for market - has the potential to provide those opportunities.

Practical Action's agroprocessing projects aim to increase income and access to food for the poor, by establishing small-scale, appropriate and sustainable processing businesses that are flexible, require little capital investment and can be carried out in the home without the need for sophisticated or expensive equipment.

Peanut butter production

ITDGPractical Action has helped more than 100 women and some men increase their income through peanut butter production to ten times the average per capita earnings in Zimbabwe.

Most peanut butter producers are women working from their own homes. Traditionally they make the butter by manually grinding peanuts between two stones - and then grinding them again.

ITDGPractical Action has introduced small electric grinding mills which have reduced the drudgery involved in making peanut butter and increased quality and productivity.

Women are able to rent time on the machine at ITDGPractical Action’s ‘service centres’ for small entrepreneurs; or in cases like Fadzavanhu Enterprises, a small women’s co-operative, ITDGPractical Action can help the producers get access to credit to buy a mill.

Technical advice is central to the project - for example, to avoid the risk of toxic mould on the peanuts. But business and marketing training may also be required to enable these small scale producers to sell their product successfully in local markets.

Honey processing

Practical Action's agro-processing programme has helped around 1000 beekeepers in Zimbabwe to produce more and better quality honey and so increase their incomes.

One of the technical changes adopted by the beekeepers has been the Kenyan ‘top-bar’ hive, a more efficient and productive construction than the variable traditional hives, but one which can still be made from local materials.

Again, technology is only part of the story. Practical Action has helped beekeepers improve their techniques, but has also helped them to organise together in beekeepers’ associations, which are able to facilitate better access to markets, and to establish a collective honey processing centre which is also a key point for sales.