It was nice last Sunday – a small cozy location, nice people, good music and quite some stuff to rummage around. The charity flea market took place in the New Deli Yoga in the middle of Berlin-Kreuzberg. Some helpers baked cake and at the bar you could start your Sunday morning with a cocktail. Why…
Month: November 2011
Cleaning spray, why not make it yourself?
As I have recently learned in Mareike Hadeler’s talk at the Designtransfer, shower gels contain 70 % of water – water that is transported in big dispensers, which travel lots of kilometers, which again causes a lot of unnecessary waste. The same goes for cleaning sprays. Those plastic canisters are mostly very big, take a lot…
Veist – clothing stories
This Saturday, the 12th of November 2011, the vintage and one-of-a-kind store VEIST is opening in Berlin Neukölln. But more then just a piece of vintage clothing, VEIST is selling stories. The stories that are wrapped around the selected vintage clothing pieces. Sandra Troegl, formerly known from the eco-social agency Nest, and before that for…
Designtransfer
Im Rahmen des Designtransfer Programms der UDK beeindruckte mich Petz Scholtus vorige Woche mit einem klasse Vortrag und vielen schönen Beispielen aus der Welt des Öko-Designs. Die gebürtige Luxemburgerin, die ihren Abschluss in Eco-Design am Goldsmith College in London machte, lebt und arbeitet seit 2004 als freiberufliche Designerin in Barcelona. Hier hat sie sich auch…