The wall garden

Every year there?EUR??,,????'???s a five-day showcase of design work from creative types from Sweden, Finland, Norway and Denmark. This Nordic design event included the wall garden design of landscape architect Michael Hellgren. His V?????xtv?????ggen (Swedish for “plantwall”) is a reinforced, multi-layered, synthetic and absorbent felt surface on which plants are integrated into small pockets. Michael says he tries to find the essence of every plant and the appropriate display environment.

You?EUR??,,????'???ll see plenty of light poles in this issue, but none are padded like this one in the U.K. There was speculation the charitable organization Living Streets was responsible for padding the light post. Why pad? Perhaps to protect oblivious text-messaging/mobile using pedestrians from walking into them and mashing their pusses. Seems far-fetched, and we could find no mention of a ?EUR??,,????'??padding program?EUR??,,????'?? on the Living Streets website. So, it?EUR??,,????'???s probably just a joke.

However, the light pole at the corner of a busy street and the entrance to the housing tract of one of our editors has been hit several times by vehicles that somehow manage to leave the road, go over the curb and onto the sidewalk.

Canadian Matthew Kroeker, a freelance industrial designer, has come up with the Splinter Chair. The former ?EUR??,,????'??snowboard bum?EUR??,,????'?? moved to Toronto to study art, but ended up studying industrial design at the Ontario College of Art and Design.