Projects We Love: Let the Sunshine In
(Then use it to charge your phone.)
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Featured projects
— Window Solar Charger
— uKeg Nitro Cold Brew Coffee Maker
— Olympic Games: The Design
— New York Drawings
Good design makes the world go round — and sometimes it’s good for the planet, too. Take a deep dive into some dazzling designs, and help these four projects see the light of day.
Window Solar Charger
By Grouphug
Hang this bamboo-framed solar panel in your window and come home to enough power to charge your phone. Krystal Persaud, former senior director of product design at littleBits, developed this stylish solar accessory to make it easy for anyone to incorporate renewable energy into everyday life.
uKeg Nitro Cold Brew Coffee Maker
By GrowlerWerks
If you can’t get enough of the creamy, frothy goodness of “nitro” cold brew coffee, why not make it at home? GrowlerWerks — makers of the best-selling, Kickstarter-funded uKeg pressurized growler for craft beer — is back to produce a countertop device that’ll let you brew nitrogen-infused java just the way you like it.
Olympic Games: The Design
By Markus Osterwalder
From Athens 1896 to Tokyo 2020, this book will walk you through the graphic identity of the modern Olympic Games: 57 competitions, 160 designers, 6,500 images, and countless hours of research by Olympic historian Markus Osterwalder.
New York Drawings
By Lucinda Rogers
Lucinda Rogers has been sketching New York City for 30 years. Now she’s collecting 90 of her illustrations into a book that will reveal NYC, from the emblematic skyline to the unsung street corners, through the decades and across its many transformations.
