Platetopper promises to let you protect your leftovers without ever taking them off your plate. Depending on the type of person you are, this suction-cup equipped cover is either the best product or the worst product ever. More »
On the one hand, turning old dumpsters into employee housing is clever recycling. Which is good! On the other hand, you’re living in an old dumpster& – which the Chengmai factory in China has cleverly spruced the place up. More »
Whether the trucks were transporting oil, milk or some other sort of liquid, designer Aristide Antonas has conjured up a world where we would recycle the containers into apartments. The gallery below shows a post-apocalyptic world where we remain mobile. More »
Adam Kalkin is most recognisable for the shipping container coffee shop he designed last year for Illy. Now, Fast Company has a profile on Kalkin with a bunch of pics of his other structures.
Why do jars only have one lid? How many mothers have—upon discovering they were running low on peanut butter while readying her three kids from school—smashed the jar against the counter and filled their children’s lunches with a deadly mixture of creamed legumes and shrapnel? It’s a senseless loss of healthy youth esophagus, and an even more tragic loss of perfectly good eats. In the face of record global food crisis and acid reflux commercials, it looks like the double-lidded jar showed just in time. [Sherwood Forles via DVICE and Yanko]
