Sustainable Manufacturing in China

Today the world´s leading automotive fair, the IAA, opens in Frankfurt, Germany. I am going to review a couple of interesting studies and concepts that deal with the environmentally friendlier cars as presented at the world’s biggest car fair. I will also try to present  one or two news articles that examine the IAA from the ‘green perspective’.

I have been at the IAA before and I spent an amazing time there. Unfortunately it is a bit too far to go for me now. Anyway, the picture below gives a little impression…though perhaps not the greenest solution to get from A to B.

In order to offer some kind of service through this blog, I would like to introduce a new series:

‘Link for the Weekend‘

This idea is inspired by the blog “Design Tagebuch” (DT) which features a rubric called “linktipp-am-sonntag” in which the author recommends interesting design-related webpages (on a fairly regular basis -always on Sundays- hence the name).

As follows you can find two examples of these Sunday link tips given by DT: The first one links to an interview given by Andrej Kupetz (an expert on appearance-related design) in the newspaper Handelsblatt (in German…). Kupetz talks about the importance of good appearance and design – especially in the context of difficult economic circumstances. The second example introduces two pages promoting Art & Design “made in Germany” – just have a look and see whether you like it.

Above, I mentioned that this new series was ‘inspired’ by DT, I could also put it in other words (perhaps more bluntly) and say that I just nicked the idea from DT. As a consequence I would like to make DT the very first link of this new series:

Design Tagebuch

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