Monthly Archives: October 2012
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Tim Brown on Bill Moggridge
Road Bike-tastic
This is class!
Skills Required To Be A Good Designer
Lovely piece
The result of a 15 minute branding challenge. Viable?
The North Face Utility Tools
Adventurers Envy
Today Felix Baumgartner will jump from space.
Jealous.
Smart ebike
Like it!
One of the sweetest electric bikes I’ve seen…BUT…
Yes, the environmental impact, or footprintof an electric bicycle is monumentally smaller than a combustion vehicle. It takes up less space on the road, is more navigable than an automobile, can be transported easier, and of course, uses very little fossil fuel throughout its use.
That said and at the risk of not knowing the actual design drivers for this project, I’m wondering why they chose such a costly environmental unfriendly material – billet aluminum. Procuring solid billet aluminum requires a gratuitous amount of energy and water to produce, which translates into its GHG (green house gas) equivalent (environmental impact) to be VERY high with respects to other structurally comparable materials. According to a study done by PE International & Five Winds released Mar 10, 2010, for every pound of primary aluminum ingot produced (keep in mind this figure does not…
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More 3D Hype
TED talk
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