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cause I care, design screw

oh deer!

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dear deer

Idea: Bernhard Grafl

Designer & producer: Walking-Chair design studio

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click (this pink line) to see what designers have to say about this!

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To use with 2 branches, flowers, or whatever else you feel.

                                       Improvise & antlerise ! 

I never ever liked antler trophy! Never feel this enhances decor of a space. An antler (or animal spread on the floor) by any design in a room always turns me off!

This one is thousand times better!

And I have to put  these lines of a Hindi poem –

“tumhari veerta ka praman

ek chidia ki nanhi si jaan

sadiyon se”

(A small little bird’s life is your bravery trophy always!)

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cause I care

turn off

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I wanted to do this visuals only post on water since months and I missed the world water day! So better late than never! If we I wake up, if I turn off even a day belated!

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Gary Guydosh’s glass water sculpture @ uncommon goods

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source (hopefully this is the original source?)

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(please let me know the image source if you know!)

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illusion tap at Law Garden, Ahmedabad

source

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the unwilling water taps!

designer Yong Jieyu ‘s project on clean water

Need I say more!?!

copycats

copycats – red rules

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via Craft In India

This crafty red  handcrafted vase is blod, a gorgeous bold brass vase.

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Designer: Michael Neumayr @ Suite NY

Clara lamp with a vitreous porcelain lampshade and a satin finish.

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 Bloom Chair @  Jantze Brogård Asshoff designs

A chair with a poetic soul – the little red chair is inspired by the peacent culture and the rich ornamentations of the time.

Materials: woolen felt with embroidery, steel pipe.

Warning: Copycats have nothing to do with cats or duplicity, copying someone! It has nothing to with copyright!

It is about similarity, like twins, like Siamese twins, matching objects, about object and furniture that complement each other.

Things that inspire each other.

It will be a long series. This is 1st in series.

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Events, green roots

the Grass that binds – Vetiver

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I call Vetiver grass the eco steel! 

The roots of Vetiver grass have strength of 1/6 of mild steel.

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Something as simple as grass and what could be the count of applications and environmental solutions it offers – somewhere around 10,000!! (see some here)

No, I am not joking or exaggerating!

I came to know about this wonderful grass when I did this post.

And there is some great news ?

The first ever National Workshop on the ‘Vetiver System for Environmental Protection and Natural Disaster Management’ is going to be held from 21st to 23rd February 2008 at Cochin, Kerala, India. Overseas participants are welcome.

This workshop provides the means for low cost and immediate action using a proven and tested technology. It is of great importance for people who are looking to remedy many land and water resource problems relating to climate change, resource degradation and pollution.

Please check all the details about workshop here.

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urban landscaping with vetiver (floating) in China

It is organized by The Vetiver Network International and India Vetiver Network.

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handicrafts from vetiver made in Venezuela

Images via Vetiver Network International.