The Zen Wagon celebrates honest simplicity in form, function and sustainability.  The Zen is purpose-built to get children and parents outside and experiencing the world, with an optimized ergonomic experience for both riders and driver.  From the library to the park, urban, suburban, country and beyond, the Zen is perfectly balanced to keep little ones 15 months-7 years active, healthy and hip!

Contact: Scot Herbst: scot@kaikudesign.com

Credit: Scot Herbst, IDSA of KAIKU

The Twist LED task light is an energy-efficient, eco-friendly solution that provides value, simplicity and personal lighting control for individual users in the office environment. With its thin, tubular profile, the Twist LED task light is distinguished by clean, simple aesthetics. This design incorporates innovative technology, and a 90° rotational axis, making it an easy-to-manipulate lighting solution.

Contact: Melissa Guthrie: melissa@fuseproject.com

Credit: Yves Behar IDSA, Nick Cronan, Bret Recor and Matt Swinton, IDSA of fuseproject for Herman Miller

This is an environmentally-friendly traffic light design.  Three different color-changing LEDs replace the electric energy with solar energy, reduce the manufacturing cost and energy consumption from an infrastructure everybody uses.

Contact: Yao-Chieh Lin: paulwater713@gmail.com

Credit: Yao-chieh Lin, Cheng-Tsung Feng and Bo-Jin Wang of National Yunlin University of Science & Technology (Taiwan)

Take two same-size plastic bottles, fill one with clean water and connect both bottles to Firebug. Like an hourglass, when water flows from the top bottle to the bottom one, the flow of water lights up the Firebug. One 2-liter bottle can provide up to 15 minutes of light; after that, turn it over and start again.

Contact: Richard Choi: choi@richardesign.com

Credit: Richard Choi of richarDesign (UK)

The Mobility Vision Integration Process (mVIP) investigates ways that expert designers can support and accelerate dialogue about the future of sustainable mobility. These mVIP cards are an experimental tool that supports rapid future scenario development on the topic of sustainable mobility so that groups and individuals can quickly enter a dialogue and brainstorm about possible outcomes, solutions and strategies. The deck contains 109 cards in 11 categories and is also available as an online brainstorming tool.

The lite2go is a sustainably-designed household lamp that sheds the excess of packaging by eliminating it all together. The packaging becomes the shade for the energy-saving light bulb and electric cord contained within. It is designed to be versatile, used as either a pendant or a table lamp. The manufacturing process is simple and all components can be disassembled and are biodegradable or recyclable.

Contact: Ivy Chuang, IDSA: ivy@knoend.com Credit: Knoend LLC Client:

Most households in rural India depend on biomass fuels for cooking, which leads to indoor air pollution, causing respiratory diseases among women and children. Traditional stoves are inefficient; they blacken interior walls while indoor smoke kills more than 1.5 million people globally. The Chulha low smoke stove burns biomass fuel more efficiently (reducing cooking time) while it directs smoke out of the house through a chimney chamber. The stove is made in modular units, solving logistical and maintenance issues.

Treepac is a reusable shipping container intended to replace cardboard boxes for shipping. The pack is meant to be used like a cardboard box, but it is designed to enable and encourage people and companies to improve their personal environmental footprint. The more times each pack is used, the greater the positive effect on the environment.

The LR6 is a dimmable LED lighting retrofit product for residential or commercial use. The LR6 installs in most incandescent 6" recessed cans and provides greater light output than a 65-watt incandescent bulb with equivalent or better light quality, while consuming only 12 watts of power and without using toxic mercury. The LR6 was designed to last for 50,000 hours (up to 25 years of typical residential use) while maintaining at least 70 percent of its initial light output. It is easy for everyday consumers to install as it does not require an electrician.

These original and unique business cards express the company's identity and show its commitment to sustainability and ecoinvention. The concept behind the design is focused on reuse and recycling of long-life packaging and other cartonboard. The water drop logo reflects the company's brand identity, allowing for maximum paper utilization.