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@ Chicago Reader

By Nicholas Day
August 11, 2006

LAST YEAR LOGAN Square got a new neighborhood library. Last month it unexpectedly got another one, on the sidewalk around the corner from Lula Cafe. It’s small, unfunded, and self-maintaining–in fact, it doesn’t have any employees at all. It’s easy to miss it altogether, but if you look again at what appears to be an old newspaper honor box, you’ll see the words on its side, painted in bright green over white puffy clouds: FREE BOOKS! Below, in smaller letters, is written: COMMUNITY BOOK EXCHANGE. LOGAN SQUARE BRANCH.

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Achei isso genial. Eu detesto chiclete, chiclete colado na carteira, na cadeira, etc. Nunca entendi isso, baita hábito nojento. E a designer Anna Bullus, para dar uma ajuda a quem não sabe onde jogar seus chiclés usados, projetou essa lixeirinha para chicletes que inclusive é feita com chicletes usados reclicados.

A street side bin specially designed for the disposal of the gum. A whole new material from chewing gum and bio resin that has unique properties and characteristics some of which enable the formation of this product. The product offers a unique and practical solution to a widespread problem housed within an innovative sustainable process; the bin itself collects raw material in the form of discarded chewing gum from which to produce new bins.

Designer: Anna Bullus

(via IDasia)

Particle modular shelving system, by Dominic McCausland. (via pan-dan)