2011-11-01 11:46:34 // First Light – NZ Solar Decathlon
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All good things must come to an end, and that includes our regular blog updates from the super successful First Light team, who finished an impressive third place out of 19 teams at the US Department of Energy's Solar Decathlon Competition. The Victoria University team was the first team from the Southern Hemisphere to make it to the competition, an impressive feat in and of itself. In their final blog for Design Daily, the team looks back at the most memorable moments in what has been a very challenging and rewarding year.
2011-10-25 17:30:09 // Deirdre Robert
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Apart from their longer lease on life, eco bulbs don’t offer up much by way of design. Well, not until designer Tien-Ho Hsu offered up this nifty paper eco bulb. While regular energy efficient light bulbs to take up space in landfills, Hsu’s innovation, dubbed the ‘Eco Light’, is made from paper meaning the bulb can be recycled once it’s done its dash.
2011-10-11 10:21:38 // First Light – NZ Solar Decathlon
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It may not have been first place, but when Victoria University’s First Light team was named third in the highly prestigious and super competitive Solar Decathlon competition, they tell us it felt like they’d won the competition. In their latest blog, the team enlighten us on how the various contest within the competition worked in their favour, sometimes unexpectedly.
2011-10-04 12:17:48 // Design Daily Team
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Having battled it out for over a week, and with years of preparation behind them, the hard work has paid off for members of Victoria University’s First Light team, with the team coming third in the US Department of Energy Solar Decathlon. First Light is the first team from the Southern Hemisphere to reach the finals of the competition. With 18 other international university teams competing, the third place ranking is impressive in and of itself, but the team also aced a number of individual contests within the competition
2011-09-27 15:56:26 // First Light – NZ Solar Decathlon
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How long does it take to put together a solar-passive house complete with all the interior fittings? Six and a half days if you’re the First Light team. With the house completed and already graced by some famous faces, the team is now focused on the contest side of things.
2011-08-02 17:00:35 // First Light – NZ Solar Decathlon
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From the outside, the Meridian First Light house is a thing of wooden beauty. Cast your eyes skyward and you’ll see the solar panels on top, immediately alluding to the house’s energy savvy principals. But what about what’s on the inside? In its latest blog, the First Light team explains how the the challenge of limited space brought out the team's crafty and innovative streak.
2010-08-31 10:27:45 // Design Daily Team
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Ever wondered what a city operating entirely on artificial intelligence would look like? Richard Hardy, a Bartlett School of Architecture graduate, created this stunning Transcendant City movie as a reaction to a society that is currently not responding effectively to environmental dangers. “Transcendence” in this case refers to a point when artificial intelligence has reached or surpassed that of the human.
2010-08-31 09:24:28 // Design Daily Team
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Finding plastic a little boring, designer Leva Kaleja opted for a more delicate paper approach in creating these “bride” pendant, table and floor lamps.
2010-07-02 16:13:02 // Design Daily Team
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Here's a very cool product we spotted courtesy of endemicworld.com. This snazzy sound activated drum light does exactly what its name suggests. Hit the drum (it replicates a real drum noise - of course) and presto, you have light. Be sure to check out the video.
2010-07-02 10:54:02 // Design Daily Team
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Jenny Holzer has been plastering cities with all kinds of words - truisms, snippets of poetry, even declassified Abu Ghraib documents - for nearly 40 years. She started papering New York city with posters in the '70s, and since then has moved on to LED art and xenon projections onto landmarks and buildings all over the world.
2010-07-02 10:47:13 // Design Daily Team
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We love thecoolist for pointing us to this Kiwi&Pom-designed chair
Commissioned by Wallpaper* Magazine in late 2009, the multi-coloured chair features 200 metres of electroluminescent wire and a pulse setting for the all-important disco vérité experience.
2010-06-30 11:48:28 // Design Daily Team
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Jack the ‘sitting, stacking, lighting thing’ is now back in its natural home with the motto: “it’s back - it also comes in black and it stacks.”
