Have Pepsi Found The Way Forward??

Pepsi have released a new bottle to replace their current plastic bottles. They are market testing the product next year, with plans for its general use the same year.
The bottles are made completely out of plant material, including; switch grass (a perennial warm season buchgrass, native to North America), corn husks, pine bark & several other materials. Future progressions in use of materials includes orange peels, oat hulls, potato scraps & many other food leftovers from Pepsi's food business.
Coca-Cola are currently producing a bottle made from 30% plant material, saying it will take several more years to produce a 100% plant material bottle, so Pepsi are very proud to release their 100% plant material bottle.

The release of this product could change the industry standards, reducing the use of petroleum-based materials & in-turn reducing the negative effects these materials have on the plant.

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POCKET BOOK

This is my most recent purchase in a new resolution to create a mini "library" of Landscape Architecture & Design books, in order to help my progression as a designer.

This book contains all the major topics from soft & hard landscaping to planning, legislation & British Standards. As I progress it is important my professional knowledge does too. Small & handy book to keep at hand at all times!

Reading Material

I have ordered this book to help me progress my digital skills. The book contains step by step guides on how to use a variety of software, including photoshop & illustrator, to form landscape architecture digital drawings, visualisations, plans, sections, etc.

Creative Bag Advertisements

Bag Advertising taken to another level. Some very comical & some very meaningful, thought provoking examples of advertising using plastic carrier bags...

Panadol Extra
Unknown designer

Wheaties Shopping Bag
Unknown designer

Blush Lingerie: X Ray Bag
Agency: BBDO Berlin

Gaia: Animal Torture

Agency: Duval Guillaume, Belgium

Condomi Erotic
Advertising Agency: Draft FCB Kobza, Vienna, Austria

Olympic Shopping Bag
Advertising Agency: Tao Ma Design

Stop'n'Grow Nailbiter
Jung Vin Matt, Berlin

Give Me Your Hand, Greenpeace
Dentsu, Beijing

ASPE Crime Stories Bag
Given when you bought a book by Belgium's best crime-writer

ReVital
Antje Gerwien, University of Weimar

Tom of Finland Carrier Bag
Tom of Finland is a popular Finnish gay icon

Anne Summers
Guerrilla marketing concept; GuerrillaGuru

Volkswagen Golf GTi bag
Advertising Agency: Agence V, Paris

Shumensko Beer Crate
Advertising Agency: Noble Graphics Creative Studio, Sofia, Bulgaria

Images & reference taken from www.boredpanda.com

The Future Of Cars??

BMW released their latest concept car at the 2010 Leipzig Trade Fair. The car runs using a three-cylinder turbodiesel engine, with electric motors on the front & rear axles, powered by a lithium-polymer battery which can be charged using a normal convention power supply in only 2.5 hours. The car is still very much a sports car, going from 0 to 60 in under 5 seconds!

The company has said that the hybrid car will be on the market, available to the public, in 2013. This is still 3 years away so there is no price on the vehicle yet, what is for certain is it won't be for the faint hearted. Best looking BMW, let alone hybrid vehicle produced so far.