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Cool Hunting Green
By Dave Evans Price: $24.95 |
This, the second book in the Cool Hunting series, recognises the hottest designs right now are those that promote a cleaner, greener and more beautiful planet.
Designers all over the world are hailing ‘green’ as the new ‘black’ and taking up the call to reduce, reuse and repurpose existing resources in their products to inspire a greener world. The most ingenious designers know it can be done without sacrificing creativity, style or functionality.
Cool Hunting Green is a fascinating collection of quirky, bold and unique products guaranteed to get you thinking, talking and maybe even acting in a more environmentally sensitive manner…without losing your cool! Each creation is presented with a web address and explanation, so it can be bought directly from the designer.
About the Author
Dave Evans, author Cool Hunting; A Guide to High Design and Innovation, is a dedicated net junkie and professional photographer.
An observer of the contemporary cultural climate, Dave’s ability to tap into the current Zeitgeist equips him to compile the Cool Hunting series, which has received international acclaim.
Dave currently explores this reality from his Adelaide base, where he is a global internet traveller and explorer.
Reviews
"Dave's gone green with a new book which focuses on recycled, repurposed and renewable objects that inspire a greener world."
- Adelaide Matters
"Featuring an amazing collection of clothes, jewellery, household items, transport and 'stuff', cool hunting green is a reflection of the increasing disdain of the wasteful, disposable society we have become, and celebrates ingenuity, respect for the environment and an often humorous reworking of everyday objects...I’m converted.
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- Townsville Eye
"..a title for the ever-growing 'green bookshelf'."
- Bookseller + Publisher
"If necessity is the mother of invention, there are some very inventive people in this book, thinking outside the square. A couple of items that caught my eye are the handbag made out of an old computer keyboard - that's pretty funky. And the belt that uses old audio cassettes as a buckle - how cool is that? I love the tupperware dress. And I also like the handbag made out of a reused car tyre. It covers everything!"
- 891 ABC Adelaide - Grant Cameron
"Inspired by Dave’s book I’m wearing a pair of cross-trainers I designed myself with soles made from egg cartons."
- 774 ABC Melbourne - Rachel Berger
"All about eccentric design that gives rise to functionality, this book will inspire and astound you with its cutting-edge designs. Hunt one down at your bookstore now."
- Home Beautiful - Australia
"Evans' new book, Cool Hunting Green, recognises that the hottest designs right now are those that promote a cleaner and greener planet."
- The Independent Weekly
"What your book highlights, it's not so much about recycling...it's more how the items are re-used. It's amazing where you get this stuff from. The way you capture these images is just spectacular. You've brought out another fantastic book!"
- 612 ABC Brisbane - Steve Austin and Andre La Porte
"This funky little book is a guide to products made from recycled materials or with an environmental bent...So the book is like a cool
catalogue where no one paid to be included. Products range from quirky to ingenious to gorgeous."
- Herald Sun
"If you’re into smart, thought-provoking design, you’ll have lots of new things to add to your wish list once you flip through Cool Green Stuff. "
- iVillage Online (US) - for Cool Green Stuff
"At first riffle, it appears to be a glorified Ikea catalogue. After all, it's a book of pretty, glossy pictures of sleek vases and modern lamps. But look closer and you'll notice: everything's gone green.
In case the name didn't tip you off, Cool Green Stuff is full of, well, cool green stuff collected by Australian photographer Dave Evans.
Ranging from the slightly ridiculous (a cashmere sweater for your pug), to the innovative (a truly rad bag made of recycled computer keys), to the straight-up genius (a solar-powered electric bicycle), this inspired — and inspiring — collection will look great on your coffee table, too.
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- The Globe and Mail (US) online - for Cool Green Stuff
"What’s hotter than green? Sure, it’s nice to help the planet, but being hip is a natural benefit of lending a hand to Mother Earth...Cool Green Stuff is like a coffee-table book and a guide to shopping and going green in one. Author Dave Evans provides a full-color collection of environmentally conscious, but stylish, items for home and office as well as accessories, clothing and more.
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- timesunion.com (US) - for Cool Green Stuff
"Cool Hunting Green is, if nothing else a superb testament to human imagination. It’s a volume where a picture is worth a thousand words… When you see this kind of creative imagination and practical innovation made manifest it can’t help but be heartening."
- Search SA
"Australian photographer Dave Evans, 30, has collected the best of reclaimed chic for a new book, Coot Hunting Green. Recycling old materials into fresh forms is nothing new - ask anyone who scrimped and darned their way through the Depression - but Evans sees the cool hunting project as something more than an exercise in frugal living."
- The Age
"Full of cutting-edge design ideas from around the world that use and reuse renewable and recycled raw materials to create products that leave hemp in the dust."
- Sydney Morning Herald
"The eco movement saturated media and the mall alike last week as the new Dave Evans photography book, "Cool Green Stuff" ($14.95 Clarkson Potter), hit bookstores. All that green being made from green may make you feel green, but it's hard to ignore the stylish size and content inside Evans' flippable guide to responsible commerce. Dig the sk8 belt buckle made from a recycled skateboard, the rosette brooch made from vintage kimono and obi silk, and the electric-colored, translucent iPod nano cases made from recycled, and recyclable, polycarbonate. The best news? Evans tells readers exactly where to find all that cool, green, stuff. (The book is titled "Cool Green Stuff" in the USA and Canada)"
- The Denver Post
"IN “Cool Green Stuff,” ’70s idealism is transformed into chic, covetable objects that turn the somber task of saving the planet into the lighthearted activity of decorating your loft or adorning your civic-minded body.
The book’s creator, Dave Evans, Dumpster-dived the globe to find trash reconceived as treasure. Discarded aluminum can tabs are crocheted into a cyborglike shoulder bag that would look good on R2-D2’s arm; junked computer keys are strung into a high-tech beaded clutch; and a visionary Indiana seamstress fuses colored trash bags onto old blankets and sews them into slick jackets called “Plasticoats.” Yes, the possibilities of “Trashion” are endless. (This book is titled "Cool Green Stuff" in the USA and Canada)
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- The New York Times
"Indeed it is a gem of information for those with a desire to own, collect, or give environmentally conscious cool stuff. If you're crafty at all, this book might be a good source of inspiration and ideas for your own green projects. Everything from jewelry made from such things as old road cones, recycled computer keyboards, and vintage Barbie doll shoes, to furniture made from old grocery carts and cardboard, to nifty kitchen stuff made from a variety of recycled and renewable resources can be found in this book.
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- Wandering Coyote, Canada
"Cool Hunting Green is a treasure trove of cutting-edge eco-designs."
- Nature and Health
"Our favourite green accessories.."
- Nature and Health
"Not a tip book or a book that preaches, Cool Green Stuff...(USA title) is the perfect conversation starter for your coffee table. End the search now for a coffee table book that aligns with an eco-lifestyle. "
- http://www.thecatscan.com/story/show/1111
"The book steers well clear of any of the uglier trappings of an eco-lifestyle, such as energy-efficient light bulbs and home composters, in a bid to prove that aesthetics needn’t be compromised in ecologically-sound design...Their beauty becomes evident very quickly even to people not known for their eco-credentials, such as design expert Stephen Bayley, who finds some of the offerings “ingenious and charming” and is impressed by their intelligence. High praise indeed from a man who has written at great length about his conviction that the great age of design has passed."
- The Independent (UK)
"If something makes you smile and makes you feel good, then it is probably a very good piece of design…an awful lot of this stuff makes me smile."
- Stephen Bayley, design expert, in The Independent, UK
"Cool Hunting Green is a book...which catalogues some of the hippest new homewares, gadgets and objects that are recycled or given a new function."
- Sunday Life Magazine