MSLK Featured in New Book: Urban Interventions
MSLK's two eco-art installations "2663 Urban Tumbleweeds" and "Watershed" are featured in a new art compilation entitled "Urban Interventions - Personal Projects in Public Places." The editor, Matthias Huebner, states:...
Is Green Normal or Abnormal? Thoughts on the 2010 Superbowl
Influenced by the economy, it seems that the eco message in the 2010 Superbowl was heavily downplayed this year. Gone were commercials of companies promoting their sustainable track records and...
IKEA Launches a Line of Solar Powered Outdoor Lights
This is the kind of design innovation we all should all be doing. Why can't all our outdoor lighting be solar powered? It's an even input to output exchange, no...
Help Remedies’ Creative Ways to Solve Simple Problems
Ever feel like you have problems that no one has any solutions to? Help Remedies may have an answer for you. Don’t know what to wear? Never been kissed? Or...
Independent Coffee Shop Edges Out Starbucks
Sheri and I just got back from a trip today to Wisconsin, visiting the folks at Wigwam to discuss the new marketing materials we're developing for them. Having been to...
Hopenhagen, Climate Conference in Copenhagen
Today is the first day of the United Nations Climate Change Conference. For the next 11 days representatives from 170 countries accompanied by non-governmental organizations, journalists, business representatives, and personal...
Starbucks Creates “The Cup Summit” to Make Paper Cups 100% Recyclable
In an effort to think cradle-to-cradle Starbucks is taking on the 58 billion paper cups American's use annually. As a company contributing an estimated 3 billion cups into the waste...
MSLK’s 2009 (Re)Design Flatpack Stool Award
MSLK's AIGA award arrived last week in a most unusual form: as a stool. A shallow USPS Flat Rate Box containing confetti, five pieces of particle board, and a sheet...