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Coll.part. A particularly fine collection of fashionable and decorative articles combining recycled material and design with ethical production. It came into being, when a creative designer came across colourful, strong and lightweight material and was immediately inspired to give it a second life in the form of smart and fun-looking accessories. Bags for fish food recuperated at numerous fish farms in Cambodia are redesigned into shoulder bags, hats, wrappers, toilet bags and pouches. Coll.part articles are functional and ageless, increase the value of the recycled material and survive seasonal fashion trends. Recycling causes the colours and impressions in the core material to change and also gives the collection its unique identity.

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Pica Pica

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My metamorphosis started when I met my vegetarian wife.  After years of trial and error, and much fighting, I slowly had my eyes open to the realities of meat consumption.  Now I am not going to go on a diatribe here against the meat industry, nor am I interested in converting those uninterested in the topic, but if you are thinking about taking the leap and have not been able to do so because you think that you will never have a good tasting meal again, think again!

The reality is that the joy of food taste is in the spices, not the base material.  Really go ahead, cook any meat you choose, just do not season it with anything.  Now do you really think that it tastes that good?  Without the spices meat is as bland as tofu.  The solution to your transformation is this, learn how to cook! I mean really how to cook, not shake and bake, preparing dishes from scratch.

The very best cookbook that inspired me to become the cook I am today is none other than the infamous Millennium cookbook (only $24.95) brought to by the as infamous Millennium restaurant in San Fransisco.  This book will teach you how to make amazing tasting food entirely devoid of meat, dairy or fish, and you will love it.  They also offer many links to other very good resources on their sight as well.

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ExperimentaDesign

Droog Design and Scott Burnham have assembled a team of some of the most innovative designers and architects from around the world to create 13 newly designed interventions, tools, toys and objects that are temporarily placed along a route on the central IJ-riverfront in Amsterdam. Reversing the traditional approach to urban design, in which objects and areas are created explicitly to discourage public interaction and intervention, this collection of objects will be created to encourage interaction and physical engagement by the public.
Urban Play poses the question that we hear so much about the “creative city”, but when to we actually get to see it in action?
Inhabitants and visitors who come across the installed elements of Urban Play along the route are challenged to bring the objects to their next level.
Through the creative intervention and input by the city’s residents, this experiment in urban design begins raising political and social questions for the city itself. How much tolerance does a city have for its residents to interact with the physical city? Does it support their creative input and a direct involvement in its design? Does Urban Play ultimately become a period of amnesty for the city’s residents to play with and in the urban landscape? Which design proposals will the city authorities allow, and which ones will be blocked – and what does this say about the freedom of the city’s residents to be creative in their own town, and who makes those decisions?

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