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Wishing you a safe and creative Halloween

Take the stairs ... just for fun

With an effort to encourage people to take the stairs rather than use the esclator or elevator Volkswagen's "Fun Theory" project created piano stairs in a subway station in Stockholm. The stairs turn into an interactive experience playing music as you acend them. Check out the video.

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StrawJet "Innovative Building Material"

Straw Jet uses straw stalks to create a unique building material for developing countries. The parts are made from existing renewable resources and helps prevent deforestation. The process can wind straw into cables, then binds those cables into poles that are used as support beams, then add some mud, and some horizontal beams for walls, more mud, and viola an insulated structure made from native, renewable building materials.

The video is a little long, and a little old; but still very cool. The process has been around for a while but this is the first time I've seen it. Strawjet.com

Milk Pouch Packaging Concept

With an innovative concept that saves 75% of the plastic used in typical milk packaging, the JUGIT container is designed to make bagged milk more acceptable to consumers.

The injection molded pitcher in combination with a pouch-based format has the easy-to-pour convenience of a pitcher, and uses only 25% of the packaging material.

To encourage reusability of the JUGIT, the only part that needs to be cleaned between pouches is the spike attachment. JUGIT is sold with two of these, so that consumers do not have to wash the attachment before fitting each new pouch.

Read more about it here.

Shangri La Wall Flats

Josh knows I'm obsessed with decorating my apartment, so he sent me this cool link today. Check it out! . . . 3D eco-friendly wallpaper that you can paint to match your room!

Happy Holidays from Whiteboard

Every year, around this time, the "what to do for an online agency holiday card" issue causes a bit of back and forth about whether to make it cute, funny, serious, silly, official, or strategic. And this is always a real tough one, how PC to be? Time’s up! We’ve got to get this in circulation before vacation. Happy Holidays!

We are also opening our doors for another open house on January 15th, 2009 so, if you're interested in industrial design and product development, and live in the Twin Cities, we'd love to have you stop by.

Click here to see the card in action.

Green Christmas

The Green movement gained momentum and never slowed down; hitting our cleaning supplies, home computers, cell phones, food, cars, clothing and now it’s after our kids. Green Toys are popping up all over the place and they are not frumpy wooden push cars; these toys have some real kid appeal. And mom can feel good about buying them knowing that there are no materials that hurt the environment or more importantly little Jimmy. No lead paint recalls for these toys!

Visit these sites for more information or a recommendation to Santa:
Green Toys
Sprig Toys
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