Israeli designer Ronen “Tinman” Wasserman has developed a line of beautiful and sustainable furniture. By salvaging and upcycling discarded car parts, hetransforms them into tables, lamps chairs and sculptures.

via Old Car Parts Transformed Into Trendy New Furniture – International Design Times.

The all cardboard bike is shockingly durable: it can carry riders who weigh up to 485 pounds. A layer of coating atop the cardboard shields the bike from the elements and gives the finished product the look and feel of lightweight plastic. While the cost to make the bicycle ranges from nine to twelve dollars, the manufacturer expects to sell the vehicle for sixty to ninety dollars depending on the optional addition of an electric motor.

via Cycle on the Recycled: A $9 Cardboard Bike Set to Enter Production in Israel – Business – GOOD.

The jury is still out on whether the star-studded viral outbreak movie Contagion will be a Hollywood blockbuster, but don’t blame Patrick Hickey if it isn’t. The Scottish mycologist recently led a team that used living bacteria and fungi to create two sinister-looking billboards meant to lure, or scare, people into seeing the movie.

via Don’t Call It Viral Marketing: The Story Behind Contagion’s Microbial Billboard – ScienceInsider.

The tenth anniversary of the September 11th attacks is this coming Sunday, and New Yorkers across the city are reflecting and remembering the lives of those who were lost. The city is planning a day-long vigil on September 11, which will include the opening of the highly anticipated national 9/11 Memorial at Ground Zero. Designed by architect Michael Arad and landscape architect Peter Walker, the memorial consists of a peaceful tree-filled plaza and two reflecting pools in the exact places where the towers once stood.

via 9/11 Memorial Uses Green Design to Create a Place of Remembrance | Inhabitat New York City.

Infographics already gets tons of play on the web. But geek superstar Golan Levin wants to spread them even further. So he developed an adjustable stencil that lets you spray paint pie-chart data visualizations of your own making on walls, highway underpasses, the house of your high school math teacher — wherever! As someone noted perfectly on Twitter, it’s “Bansky meets Tufte.”

via Infographiti: Golan Levin Brings Data Viz To The Street | Co.Design.