john bell assemblage pieces

John Bell assemblage art.

jo pond jewelry

Jo Pond jeweler extraordinare--pieces made from book covers!

duro olowu: eco fashion

Sustainable fashion by Duro Olowu for Spring/Summer 2010.

assemblage art hippo

Mantiques Modern

gueto studio: recycled jewelry

Gueto Studio Brazil, has gotten together with Brazil’s biggest petrol company, Petrobas to design products from recovered petroleum byproducts. Their jewelry line is made of rubber coming from the auto industry. Materials were selected that were not toxic to people who would be working with them manually. The result is a bit of green lovely-ness.

artis gallery

Artis Gallery, New Zealand

inframe tv: documentary shorts

InFrame.tv is a documentary based vodcast produced in Melbourne, Australia profiling & explore original Australian and international talent working in art, design and culture. InFrame offers thoughts, insights, and inspirations of people who create. InFrame

hempcrete: carbon neutral building material

Hempcrete® by U.K.-based Lhoist Group, is a bio-composite thermal wall material made from hemp, lime and water. More CO2 is locked-up in the process of growing & harvesting the hemp than is released in production making it carbon neutral.
Lhoist

chiharu shiota: art installations

Chiharu Shiota

icebreaker clothing: sustainable merino wool

Ice Breaker clothing New Zealand proves that wool can be worn in warm weather. They have released a new line of “ultra-fine” merino wool T-shirts and they offer an entire range of men’s and women’s summer clothing. Merino wool is a sustainable material, and Icebreaker is launching a garment traceability program called BAACODE that will allow consumers access to the company’s sustainable and ethical practices through-out their entire supply chain. BAACODE will also track individual garments back to the New Zealand merino station where the wool was procured. You've gotta love Icebreakers ad campaigns too!

rug rag: thick flotaki wool rugs

Handmade with heavy dense New Zealand Wool, in a wide array of sizes, shapes, colors and and designs. Rug Rags

fearon hay architects: new zealand

New Zealand, The Auckland-based architects Fearon Haydesigned this perfect retreat in the dramatic landscape on the shores of Lake Wakatipu, Central Otago.

ora ora eco resort spa: new zealand

OraOra

edible yards

heartbeet

shira golding

urbanwild

richard robinson: new zealand landscapes

Art of This World

terry graziano: millinery

Terry Graziano handcrafts lovely hats from her New York studio from fantastic, high quality, mill-end surplus fabrics salvaged before landfill. Her hats are all lined in silk, adjustable and each can be fashioned in several different styles
Also available on her Etsy site.

james michael starr: assemblage art

Wonderful work by James Michael Starr.

deborah lindquist: goth country

Deborah Lindquist

new belgium brewery: solar array

New Belgium Brewing, Fort Collins Colorado has recently announced the largest privately owned solar array in Colorado has gone live at their plant. The 200 kW system will produce 16 percent of New Belgium’s peak electrical load and 3 percent of their total electrical energy use.
The array is part of the brewer’s commitment to Fort Collins’ FortZED initiative, a public/private partnership that aims to create the world’s largest “active zero energy district” through Smart Grid and renewable energy technology.

Boulder-based Namaste Solar began the installation in late August 2009. The New Belgium packaging hall now holds 870 panels, and engineers estimate it can power the bottle line for up to eight hours on a sunny day.
New Belgium became the country’s first brewery to subscribe to 100 percent wind powered electricity in 1998 and can produce up to 15 percent of its electrical needs by capturing methane from its process water treatment plant to fire a co-generation engine which produces heat and electricity on-site.

kate woods: vintage new zealand landscape

Kate Woods' geometric abstractions in the Kiwiana landscape created from found images of kitschy touristy merchandise at City Art Rooms Auckland New Zealand.

new zealand art: ferner galleries

New Zealand artists Eric Lee Johnson, John Barr Clark Hoyt & Charels Blomfield at Ferner Galleries.

fingers: contemporary jewelry new zealand

I am writing this way before I leave, but while in New Zealand, I am totally going to Fingers Contemporary Jewelry (2 Kitchener Street Auckland)--I LOVE jewelry!!! Crazy for it!! These pieces by Elfi Spiewack, Helen Britton, Anne Baynham, Lynn Kelly & Ross Malcolm have me totally excited!

breathtaking landscape: new zealand

photos via Virtual Oceania & WWHS