This summer British explorer and environmentalist David de Rothschild will set sail with a crew of scientists from San Francisco to Sydney, covering approximately 12,000 nautical miles. His boat, Plastiki, is a high tech 60 foot research catamaran made from reused plastic bottles and recycled plastics.
Plastiki hosts solar panels and turbines to power it’s electrical needs. There is a hand operated water desalination system to supply fresh water and it uses a nitrogen-extracting waste system that composts waste and kitchen scraps into fertilizer for deposit at ports.
The goal of this expedition is to raise awareness of our ocean’s unsolicited challenge of accommodating our plastic waste, which by some estimates creates an island of debris as large as 600,000 square miles!
The boat is being built at Pier 31 in San Francisco and is scheduled to set sail this August.
Pecha Kucha has become a very popular format for presentations and is intended to keep them short and sweet: 20 slides @ 20 seconds each. It was created by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham of Klein-Dytham Architecture in Tokyo. Wired has a good article on it. Events are coordinated on a global scale by Pecha Kucha Night. With its ultra-compressed format, it sorta seems like the “Twitter of Presentations”
Last year, we had the pleasure of working with Stefan Sagmeister to realize the deluxe CD package for David Byrne & Brian Eno’s album: Everything That Happens Will Happen Today.
It was truly a labor of love, as we here at Gamil Design are big fans of both David Byrne and Sagmeister, Inc. We were elated to find this video posted by Topspin CEO Ian Rogers with his personal unveiling of the deluxe CD package as it arrived at his home.
Also check out the interview with designer Stefan Sagmeister and his description of the concept behind the unique deluxe package design.
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A few years ago, we noticed a remarkable amount of new traffic. After doing a bit of research, we realized lots and lots of Gmail users were getting ahead of themselves when typing and ending up visiting us instead of their email account. So we started a blog to say "Hi!"
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June 11, 2009 
Tags: , David de Rothschild, Ocean, plastic boat, Plastiki, recycling, trash 
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