Like Idea | Make your own Plant + Herb Screen

This could be quite easy to make/build if you have a screen frame

( or make it yourself with timber). Use plastic bottles and fill it with small plants

or even herbs.

( Seen at Saloni Satellite Milan 2012 )

(photo from my iphone)

Like Idea + Colour | Zone one of the London underground map made from drinking straws

this is a cool idea by British Designer Kyle Bean (via designboom)

If you can find enough colour straws, go for it!

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IKEA PS 2012 collection at MILAN Furniture Fair

I visited the Milan Design Fair this year. 

One of the highlights was definitely the innovative IKEA PS 2012 exhibition

at Ventura Lambrate

Visit ELLE DECORATION to see my photos and info

Like Idea | How to Buy New Tech + Green Apps for Android

Found this in the South African Stuff Magazine #26, Jan-Feb 2012

Some pretty useful info + that Carbon Meter  Free App for Android sounds like a great tool for

awareness ( plus probably shock factor! )

( scanned in from Stuff Magazine Issue 26, also visit Stuff.co.za )

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Like Idea | Textured Textile Trend at Design Indaba 2012 for Elle Decoration Online

I did a photo-blog post on current knitting & DIY trend that was strong at this year's

Design Indaba Exhibition in Cape Town for Elle Decoration Online

View thephotos + story HERE

(photos : renee rossouw cape town 2012)

Like Idea | Newspaper Wrapped Display Area Flower Shoot

Really cheap way way to make a small display... I also

wrapped the plastic-half-cut-coke bottle to tie in. 

Pink Flower looks nice on the grey.

( photos : Renee Rossouw Cape Town )

Like Idea | Little Succuclents

my sister gave me these wonderful small succulents for xmas to add to my collection.

If you are in Cape Town, the Milnerton Market sell incredible Cacti for as cheap as R20 !

Also check out Cape Town Architect Gawie Fagan's wife's collection of potplants and

planter wall at their house Die Es in Campsbay.

( photos  �� Renee Rossouw, Cape Town 2011 + 2012 )

Like Idea + Spaces | Around the World - Elle Decoration South Africa

One of my favourite shoots this year by Elle Decoration South Africa, is the Deco-Idea

Article, World Wide Walls. Freckin love the African Doll infront of the China Wall

or the Books on the Argentina Wall. Pretty much cooler than Amelie's Knome. That

thing is just freaky.

Like Idea | Baby Mobiles as Normal Objects - Simple Shapes and Geometries

Baby Mobiles are great looking room additions, as long as its beautiful and simple.
I would like to hang one in my entrance hallway. 

A Few  I like :

This Canadian Flock of Birds Mobile: 

(via)

These Simple Colourful ones by Australian Mobile Online Shop Puka Puka

 (via)

(via) 

This wonderful Calder-looking ( is it a calder ?) one

 (via) 

Okay this is just because its a little bit one the sweet side, A Hedgehog family, but still simplistic forms

via

And really like the spatial impact of this one - mixes matching colours with bigger forms

and becomes a combination of mobile+chandelier+ room-focus point

(via)

Like Idea | Succulent Plants indoors in Wood - Organic vs Cut

ORGANIC

VS

CUT WOOD

?( reception desk via dezeen, organic scanned in H&L Mag)

Like idea | Staring at the Sea ..."Meet me at Seat 14" ,

LaLaport Toyosu Urban Dock, Tokyo by EARTHSCAPE

its quite similar to this I saw in Barcelona ( staring at the sea...)

We should build some in CAPE TOWN!

Like Idea | Braaing out of a Bucket #summer

?scanned out of HOME magazine, Nov 2008 #044

Like Idea | How to Origami titbits in the Visi Magazine #Interactive

a while ago Visi Magazine use to release these nice

origami pages. Plus they gave you the paper ( colour ones )

to do it with. So cool to have an interactive component in ?

a magazine, hello lunchtime hobby at the office

( VISI ISSUE 29, 32 )

Like Idea | Bold Graphics above a Fire Place

Production : Laureen Rossouw , House & Leisure Issue 158 (scanned in)

Like Event | New York City | 21 + 22 OCT | Design Like You Give a Damn : LIVE

" Architecture for Humanity is gearing up for our fall humanitarian design conference in New York City on Oct. 21st and Oct. 22nd. Don't miss this year's Design Like You Give a Damn: LIVE! - a practitioners' forum of innovative panel discussions and workshops.

The two-day event brings together designers, architects, philanthropists, media and business representatives under one roof to talk about the collective challenges, goals and lessons learned in humanitarian design and how to move the field forward. A Design Open Mic lets emerging and established designers and architects take the stage to present their projects to an audience hungry to soak up new ideas - the 7 minute presentation format for Design Open Mic keeps the pace rapid-fire and engaging. One-on-one workshops with community development experts ensures participants go away with real lessons learned. (via Dwell) "

Itinerary Here

If you dont have the book, I strongly recommend it. Check out a South African entry to generate fresh water -  ' Play Pump' ,  - featured in the book

( an INHABITAT article here)

Also Love this Pallet House by I Beam Design (1999) from the Book

(photo via flickr)

DESIGN LIKE YOU GIVE A DAMN @ AMAZON  /  R340 from KALAHARI

Like Object | Crochet Cacti by Projekt , Africa Nova - Cape Town - ELLE DECORATION SOUTH AFRICA WISHLIST

No.80 of Elle Decoration South Africa / The Spring Issue 2011

has the most beautiful cover. Freckin Love Flower/Plant anything?

This Issue's wishlist features these Knitted Cactus - cool present idea.

The cacti can be bought at Cape Town Shop Africa Nova and is

a project by Projekt.

" Projekt is a crochet and skills training project based in Hout Bay. Its craftswomen

come from the Imizamo Yethu informal settlement, outside Hout Bay " (via)

LIKE IDEA | THE UMBRELLAS - CHRISTO + JEANNE-CLAUSE - JAPAN/USE 1984-91

SOME INFO FROM WIKIPEDIA

Christo and Jeanne-Claude prepared for their next project, "The Umbrellas". The plan was to have yellow umbrellas set up in California and blue umbrellas in Japan at the same time. In December 1990, after much preparation, the first steel bases for the umbrellas were installed. At the bases 80 cm long anchors were fastened to the ground to withstand tensions of 1,500 kgf (15 kN). In September 1991 the umbrellas were brought to their places by 2,000 workers. In California, some of the bases were transported to the site by helicopter. The final cost of the project totaled $26 US million. By 7 September, 1,340 blue umbrellas in Ibaraki and 1,760 yellow umbrellas at the Tejon Ranch in southern California had been set up; the exhibition opened on 9 October 1991. In total, 3 million people saw the umbrellas, each measuring 6 meters in height and 8.66 meters in diameter. The umbrellas became a huge tourist attraction, finding use as everything from picnic spots to wedding altars. On 26 October 1991, one of the umbrellas in California was toppled by high winds, killing one woman and injuring several others. The exhibit was ordered closed immediately.^[11]

Toffie Food Festival - Cape Town

Last Weekend Cape Town City Hall played host to The President's First

Toffie Food Festival. The Building's orientation and stained glass 

windows permitted the most beautiful soft light into the rooms and onto the 

objects/food curated by The President to display.

paper flower 'growing' in the entrance lobby

the colour-coordinated fruit & vegetables spanning meters along the corridor

the other half of the corridor had brown bags of spices on display

the main hall

a PENCIL pinata by elle decoration's charl edwards

(PHOTOS : RENEE ROSSOUW CAPE TOWN 2011 )

Some of the photos are also here

at Elle Decoration's Posts on the Fair. 

Read some more info on the speakers there.