JUNE 30th, 2008
Neo took a little trip to the big city for the launch of Goodone’s Charity Fashion Campaign. Goodone collaborated with charities Amnesty International, Greenpeace, WWF, Shelter, Liberty and No Sweat, to create limited edition dresses and jackets using old campaign t-shirts. Neo featured Goodone’s sustainable fashion in the ‘Room For Change’ at UK Aware 2008. Check out the pictures from the party here.
JUNE 18th, 2008
A new form of street art called ‘Reverse Graffiti’ has emerged from beneath the grime of dirty inner city walls. Unlike its aerosol counterpart, this new art form is entirely legal and simply involves ‘cleaning’ designs into any large dirt ingrained surfaces throughout the city. Paul Curtis, an English artist aka ‘Moose’ is one of the technique’s pioneers and can be found scrubbing his way through from London to Leeds.
JUNE 15th, 2008
Neo has reviewed the book ‘Sustainable Fashion and Textiles’ by eco designer, Kate Fletcher for Ethical Junction. ‘Sustainable fashion & textiles’ is a journey into the current state of the fashion and textiles industry, exploring in great depth the different textile manufacturing processes and questioning the ethics and ecological impact of the current systems.
JUNE 11th, 2008
The UN has announced that 2008 is the International Year of the Potato. The humble Potato has been gaining more and more importance as a growing food staple for developing nations, and is finally getting the recognition that it deserves during the recent soaring Food Prices. A single medium-sized potato provides about 3g of protein, half the daily adult requirement of vitamin C, and substantial amounts of vitamin B, as well as iron, potassium and zinc.
JUNE 2nd, 2008
If you have always talked to your plants in a bid to make them grow bigger and stronger, then this is going to make you smile.
Junyi Heo has created a plant pot which expresses its needs through a reactive LCD display. The pot is capable of measuring soil conditions, temperature, humidity and water and then translates this information into a series of pictograms to let you know just how its feeling.
The downside of this is that it needs power to function via a USB plugging device. However, this works doubly hard by both charging and downloading information from the plant pot onto computer software.
JUNE 1st, 2008
Neo created a novel way to inspire greener lifestyles at the LONDON AWARE event. The Room For Change was a virtual living room decorated with eco-friendly products and installations, designed by Neo to give consumers everyday ideas for greener living. Installations included a goat made from hubcaps (to encourage people to consider buying ethical or recycled gifts) and a toilet full of mobile phones to communicate how recycling your mobile can fund capital projects in the third world (as well as highlighting the dangers of texting on the toilet).You can see more pictures of the Room For Change – with its unique cross-stitch branding – at the new Room For Change website or alternatively read Smartplanet’s review of the event.
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