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July, 2010 Monthly archive

Single-use backyard barbie tableware — 100 per cent tree-free, made from renewable sugar cane fiber, reed pulp and bamboo. Biodegradable and compostable. Available for retail or in bulk.

Designed by Shinichiro Ogata for WASARA.

via wit+delight and Ready Made Magazine.

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Pretty frickin’ hot.

Wearing a respirator mask, Sous Chef Wahid Baig shows off the famous Phaal Curry at a Brick Lane Curry in Little IndiaNYC this week. Getting a whiff of fumes as the curry is heated up is enough to make your insides burn. Ramsay de Give for The Wall Street Journal

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Need to pump out an 800-word column in the next few hours. This should do it.

via Peter Nidzgorski‘s tumblr on this isn’t happiness via ffffound.

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Locavores, look away.

Terraced rice paddies in Bali.

via  Zastavki

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Let’s plug this baby into plans for urban vertical farming.

Designed by Polish architecture students Ryszard Rychlicki and Agnieszka Nowak.

Via Design Boom

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A vendor breaks for a nap on a hot Monday afternoon in Dhaka, Bangladesh. (Andrew Biraj/Reuters)

via WSJ

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The spellbinding work of photographer Fulvio Bonavia.

via 2ndStudio and ShareSomeCandy, which I’ve gladly done.

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Flavour’em, stack’em ‘n’ pack’em.

With a nod to the periodic table of elements, the work of designer Eduardo del Fraile of Spain, an offshoot of his SoSo salt campaign. via LovelyPackage

Legend

Na Natural

Tr Truffled

Pi Five peppers

Ba Barbecue

As Asian

Pm Smoked paprika

Me Mediterranean

Ar Arabian

In Indian

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Says Fast Company, who found it: The Xylem Brooch by Nervous System, which was based on a cross section of the circulatory systems of plants. The brooch’s minute details would have been impossible without rapid prototyping.

Says Nervous System, who made it: Veins radiate from three stem points in the center of the brooch, creating fan-shaped zones of growth that ultimately join into one network. The pattern was grown in our computer simulation of leaf venation and etched from a sheet of stainless steel.

$75

Buy it for me for Christmas.

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Metal work by David Clarke via Share Some Candy

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