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4/21/2010

Design Moment

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+Celebs Love Eco-Tees

Purchase items like organic Ts by Luella Bartley while tracking which charities received donations from recent sales under the "What You've Done" section.

Taking its name from Sanskrit for "most pure," Amala skin and body products is made entirely from whole plant ingredients and contains no preservatives. Five percent of its profits are donated to the Amazon rain forest.

ION Salon

Founded by top hairstylists Leonardo Manetti, Marco Santini and Pasquale Ferrante, New York City luxury ION Salon is 85% green, from its products to its recycled and eco-friendly materials.

Sometimes it's the little things that add up. While the newly revamped Hotel Shangri-La uses important energy-saving fixtures like dual-flush toilets, the focus at this Art Deco-style hotel is on discreet changes like biodegradable packaging for bath amenities and recycled-paper stationery.

The 2010 Fisker Karma hybrid seems like any other luxury sports sedan, but with wood trim sourced from fallen trees, optional animal-friendly interior and a solar-panel roof, it goes the extra mile.

Confluences

The French company famed for its modern furnishings is also a leader in sustainable design. Ligne Roset is a member of the Sustainable Furnishings Council and manufactures and compartmentalizes products in a way that helps facilitate the breakdown and reuse of each object at the end of its life cycle.

Water-based and biodegradable, Nautica Oceans cologne was inspired by the ocean-tinged scent of a racing yacht's sail and, fittingly, contains hints of sea-salt rose, lavender reef and teakwood.

Not only is Xtrema ceramic cookware made from natural minerals, but the manufacturing process produces no pollutants and uses recycled water.
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2/20/2010

Design Moment

Five Finalists Picked in Condom Wrapper Contest

2/19/2010

Art Deco Posters

ART DECO replaced Art Nouveau as the major international decorative style after World War I and continued until World War II. Art Deco represented a machine age aesthetic, replacing flowing, floral motifs with streamlined, geometric designs that expressed the speed, power and scale of modern technology.

Design influences were many, from the modern art movements of Cubism, Futurism and Constructivism to ancient geometric design elements from the exotic cultures of Egypt, Assyria and Persia. In poster art, precursors of Art Deco were the German Plakatstil, the Viennese Secession, the Deutscher Werkbund, and the Parisian fashion design revolution which commenced in 1908. MORE...

Kestos lingerie__1930s

Candee__c.1927

1927 represented a high water mark, so to speak, in the world of fashion. It was the first time that female skirts revealed the knee. An attractive rainboot became more essential than ever, and Benito highlighted them in red for this delightful poster for Candee, a Swiss manufacturer associated with Bally. His model, outfitted in chic tailored suit, cloche, fur stole and accompanied by frisky terrier (a common fashion accessory in the ‘20s) represents the taut, streamlined ideal of the Roaring ‘20s.

Castle Beer__1930

Nitrolian__c.1929

This poster for a quick drying paint is ingenious. The product dries so fast that the stairs can be painted moments before a lady walks down them. Cappiello has taken a very prosaic product and made it a very stylish and totally memorable classic. He finishes off the poster with a wonderful touch. The paint can itself contains a "poster within a poster": we see a miniature woman stepping down the newly painted steps.