All Posts Tagged With: "Sweden"

Swedish energy design company Home Energy recently announced a new prototype that could potentially change the way the world looks at wind in the years to come. Using a unique, proprietary design, the Energy Ball utilizes the Venturi Effect in combination with a design that allows air to flow inside of the device itself, as opposed to simply going through it, to improve the look, efficiency, and simplicity of a tool that will be instrumental in the world’s shift to more sustainable and renewable forms of energy.
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Wine has always been a more sophisticated take on alcohol than its liquor and beer-based counterparts; perhaps that’s why it’s been so resistant to the convenience of the can - long a staple of the beer and soft drink world - in favor of the cumbersome, heavy, and expensive bottle that wine drinkers worldwide have grown to love so dearly. Thanks to the work of two Swedish designers, however, the world of wine could one day make the leap to a smaller, cheaper, and more convenient form that’s just as good for its users as it is for the environment.
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Absolut’s bottle has become a beverage staple worldwide; its brand has become somewhat of a cultural icon and, yet, how much do you really know about Sweden’s Åhus-based world of Absolut? With 500,000 bottles leaving their tiny realm of Åhus each day, the company has gradually developed into one of the largest manufacturers of spirits in the world. Spirits by themselves, however, aren’t very interesting; luckily, there’s more to Absolut than spirits.
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IKEA, the world’s largest furniture manufacturer, is trading in a bit of its blue and yellow for a dash of green. Over the next several years, IKEA will be hard at work behind the scenes investing in and developing new technologies that will help bring green design to the masses - just as 65 years ago the company launched in hopes of bringing design itself to the very same crowd.
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