Having sustainability as a core mission, Noelle Roth and Kinley Winnaman design eco-friendly wine packaging lowering dramatically carbon emissions without sacrificing design elegance

Los Angeles, California, USA Founded on a mission to create eco-friendly wines with uncompromising quality and design, Noelle Roth Studio and Kinley Danger’s Juliet Eco-Magnum packaging disrupts the boxed wine category with their recyclable packaging, made from renewable materials. Juliet’s Eco-Magnum has set the new standard for high-quality, recyclable containers as it is composed of a 100% recyclable paperboard outer. For all the above reasons, the project has been awarded a 2023 Good Design Award by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Center for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies. Juliet Eco-Magnum produces 84% ​​lower…
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Space Perspective Spaceship Neptune Targets Almost-Space

While Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic have revolutionized the concept of tourist space flights with their reusable rockets, seats on those flights still run nearly half a million dollars for their brief sub-orbital hops that last only minutes. The flights consume huge amounts of fuel and produce prolific volumes of CO2 and the rough ride to space and back is familiar to filmgoers who remember movies like Apollo 13. Florida-based Space Perspective seeks to offer an alternative…perspective, on the experience of flying to space. In place of rocket boosters, the Space Perspective Spaceship Neptune carries passengers into the blackness of…
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Intentionally devoid of direct references to any specific religious traditions, Makhno Studio’s KHRAM is a universal temple for prayer, reflection, and meditation amid Ukrainian nature

Poltava, Ukraine Serhii Makhno of Makhno Studio unveils the design of a 600-square-meter religious complex that consists of an open square, a three-dimensional figured wall at the entrance, and three separate spherical rooms for solitude, prayer, and meditation in small architectural niches . The architect took inspiration from the lotus fruit, the symbol of spiritual potential on the path to enlightenment. “The large, rounded square in front of the entrance is where you greet the temple and leave everything worldly behind,” explains Makhno Studio. “Leave your shoes here on the wooden floor and walk through the three-dimensional wall inside.” The…
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Bank of Estonia accepting silver coin designs commemorating Finnish Boys | News

The Bank of Estonia has announced a competition for the design of a silver collector coin dedicated to the Finnish Boys (soomepoisid) – the thousands of Estonian volunteers who fought against the Soviet Union in World War II among the ranks of the Finnish Army. The new Finnish Boys commemorative coin will mark the first in a new series of collector coins issued by the Bank of Estonia dedicated to resistance, the central bank announced Monday. An estimated 3,500 Estonians fought in the Winter War and the Continuation War resisting attempted Soviet occupation “For the freedom of Finland and the…
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