Sentences with phrase «aandeboom flatpack»

In Harris's hometown of Frome in northeast Somerset, a network of independent councillors has gained a majority on the council introducing bold new measures and new participatory ways of working modeled on Peter Macfadyen idea of Flatpack Democracy.

Last year, Macfadyen decided to pour the IfF story into a 100 - page booklet called Flatpack Democracy, subtitled «A DIY guide to creating independent politics».

It is simply not sensible (as Reeves, in fact, does say) that, «Successful crusades require a clear ideological purpose, an inspiring leadership and an accurate map of the destination,» as though the future were some sort of flatpack, complete with exploded diagrams, and the business of politics were some version of Fascism Lite.

In a world where interior mediocrity is mass produced, and design blandness comes neatly flatpacked, The Curious Department strives to embrace the eccentricity of clutter, clashes and the uncommon, with a splash of opulence and dash of art deco.

Does the prospect of a Sunday afternoon with a pile of IKEA flatpack leave you unfazed?

I contribute film features to movie website Audiences Everywhere and review limited, independent releases for Gorilla Film Online where I also cover the Midlands» biggest film events, including Birmingham's Flatpack Festival.

Not some funny Inokom IKEA flatpack thingamajig.

That's about enough room for a useless flatpack couch that takes a whole weekend and a PHD in civil engineering to assemble.

Whilst not pushing new boundaries with its story or being a straight up parody, the world building and subtle humour woven throughout make this IKEA - flatpack narrative something special.

There is «Flatpack», a cardboard piece of disarming humility.

As film has made way for digital, both the job and the workplace have changed fundamentally; Richard's beautifully detailed images which capture this moment of transition are on display for the first time at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery Gas Hall as part of the 10th Flatpack Film Festival (20 - 24 April).

He commissioned Pierre Jansen to produce a score for the 1978 film Acera or The Witches» Dance which will be performed live by the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group during the screening of the film as part of the Flatpack Film Festival.

It's designed by Norwegian architect Marianne Borge, and is part of a series of flatpack designs (there is also a Woody 35).

It is shipped not quite as a flatpack, but with all of its panels hinged together.

Did we say we like flatpack?

«Readymechs are free flatpack toys for you to print and build.

A team of IKEA designers have taken on a challenge a little different from their usual fun with flatpack philosophy.

We loved the downloadable pinhole camera that demonstrated the possibilities of downloading 3D technology and putting it together; we have droned on about flatpack made - to - order local furniture.

Think solid cork stools and coffee tables, linen made of seaweed, walnut plaster and gorgeous flatpack furniture.

More on Olympic Buildings First London Olympics Gold Medal Should Go to the Velodrome Architectural Awards for the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly New Olympic Basketball Arena is a Collapsible Flatpack

But I loved the Aandeboom flatpack treehouse that he calls a design crime, and he likes these so - called shipping container cabins by

TreeHugger didn't show many of the proposals for housing in Haiti, like Andrés Duany's proposals for a flatpack design (here in Jetson Green); We have spent too much time with Cameron Sinclair, who says «Top down solutions will

But then again, Flashkus is great if you need to send it somewhere (flatpack and lightweight) or for emergency situation when an extra stick comes in handy to give - away.

More Flatpack Transformers: from ICFF: D.E. Sellers Flatpack Wonders In An Absolut World Everything is Downloadable TreeHugger Picks: Flat Pack Furniture

Remarkably, the whole thing is a flatpack designed to be cut out of two sheets of plywood; you could send this off to a shopbot today and cut it out.

It comes as a flatpack — one sheet of plastic — and folds together easily.

More Dror: Transformers: Eco House by Studio Dror For Indecisive Modernists Flatpack 3D Printed LED Lamp By Dror Benshetrit Transformer Furniture: Dror Benshetrit

Michael Leckie says he is «Inspired by the idea of IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad of providing affordable well - designed products «for the many people», and continues with references to flatpack, the popular term for RTA or ready - to - assemble furniture that is usually frameless.

I am just a complete sap for flatpack; if it slides under a door I am sold.

Really, in this age of flatpack and 3D printing and delivery by drones, it is a joy to behold such a useful product, so lovingly «made for the discriminating consumer, priced and fabricated to compete with the best.»

Read more at TreeHugger about Swedes and their habits: No Bag Ban in Sweden Just More Soft Platics Recycling Plastic Politics and Sweden's Bio-Bag Backlash Swedish Green Train Project Breaks Speed Barrier IKEA BoKlok Flatpack houses spread Swedish gospel Where's the Beef?

Joost van Bleiswijk is known to TreeHugger for his Flatpack Gone Mad: No Screw, No Glue, Pure Stainless Steel More on cardboard Construction in TreeHugger: Cardboard Office by Paul Coudamy TreeHugger Picks: Cardboard Recycled Furniture & More: TreeHugger Pulp: This Is Hardcore Furniture (Slideshow)

Being a family friendly website, I can't use the clever title that Fast Company did to describe the marriage of flatpack furniture with a big heavy mallet: Whackpack.

It's like flatpack without the fasteners; you just bang it together with the big mallet that's harder to lose than an Allen key.

Arkit are not doctrinaire, and build modular, flatpack and hybrid.»

The flatpack revolution sparked by IKEA changed the way people buy and use furniture; it became globalized, cheap to ship from factories around the world.

Being suckers for anything flatpack, we love Portland designer Nathan Chrislip's Ribcage and Heart card.

It is the ultimate in flatpack and flexibility.

Here is another: a trailer that folds out like a fan, a series of flatpack elements that turn a tiny trailer into a multiroom dwelling, where the walls can move according to the

Gürsu envisions the award - winning system of metal holders being made available in IKEA - like flatpacks that consumers can assemble themselves in a variety of sizes and configurations, adding their own used cups and the plants of their choice.

I am a sucker for designs that can slide under a door; flatpack is a great technology that usually keeps costs down through efficient use of materials and cheaper shipping.

Flatpack designs cut out on CNC machines are getting so common that people are doing it in coffee shops now.

He has designed a flatpack table that proudly shows how it is put together.

Now IKEA has a solar - powered camp house that is flatpack and quick to assemble.

For four architecture magazines Horrocks designed four flatpack cardboard symbolic buildings.

I mean really, others like Kevin Schopfer are proposing floating cities; Andre Duany is floating flatpack cabins; The SEED project proposes container cities, and what does Architecture for Humanity come up with?

I am a sucker for furniture that can slide under your door; Imagine how much less shipping, less material is needed when it flatpacks so efficiently, Dutch designer Louwrien Kaptein had designed an entire apartment, complete with working area, sitting,

Designer Nicholas Belly won second prize in L'ARGUS design competition with his flatpack scooter and bike.

As the professional tiny house building industry evolves, we're seeing an increasing number of builders experimenting with different ways to get these structures up, ranging from flatpack prefabrication, to advanced timber framing techniques and CNC - cut panelized construction systems.

Most outrageously, they refused to consider dropping container houses or inflatables or flatpacks, noting that there was a need to build a construction workforce: