Dutch industrial designer Hella Jongerius has been a design force to be reckoned with for decades, known for both her own products and the work she’s done for companies such as Maharam, IKEA, Vitra and more. One of her latest projects was creating the interiors for Dutch airline KLM’s new 747 and 777 planes, which let Jongerius give her handmade, holistic design approach a new …
As anyone in NYC can attest, new construction in the city has tended toward the unimaginative, with boxy glass and steel condos popping up where elegant, conscious architecture once existed. Danish architect Bjarke Ingels of the eponymous Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) attributes this trend to the lack of consideration of environmental factors and how they can be used to develop a building; depending instead on …
Despite a growing awareness about sustainability, China is not yet one of the places where green ideas come to fruition. In particular, the local fashion industry isn’t sensitive toward environmental issues and the textile industry in the south of the country has often been blamed as one of the main factors in China’s dire water pollution situation. And yet, despite the unsustainable landscape of Chinese …
