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Author Archives: Jen @ Eco Outdoor
A new spin on fresh flowers & herbs
Here’s one company who have put a refreshingly new spin on fresh flowers and herbs. We’d like you to meet Urban Crop, introduced to us by Lucy at The Design Files.
The philosophy behind Urban Crop is all about keeping your herbs and flowers alive. Instead of harvesting them – think tulips which have been hacked [...]
Are you or do you know a sales superstar?
Don’t you wish your current job made you feel this happy? We know how you feel. So you’re probably looking through this site and thinking to yourself, ‘gee what a cracker of a company, I wonder how I could work for them….’ or better still you’re thinking to yourself, ‘I’d love to work for Eco, [...]
weekly garden profile / a cute little cottage garden
Although hardscaping is our thing, it’s hard not to appreciate a little outside beauty even with the absence of the granite or bluestone paver which we like so much. This little cottage style cutie comes to us from our friends over at Desire to Inspire [which is a good design time sucker if you're looking [...]
sat in Design @ Eco Outdoor
There’s now officially four and a half weeks until Saturday in Design hits Melbourne’s streets on Fri 6th and Sat 7th August.
Prototype Working Sessions @ Eco Outdoor // +Friday
Leave work early on +Friday for a sneak peak at the new Eco Outdoor designed ranges as we take you from concept to creation. We’ll [...]
DIY outdoor furniture . . what the?
Another interesting tidbit borrowed from our friends at My Urban Garden Deco Guide shows off the latest innovation from the Milan Furniture Fair which was held in April of this year.
Here the Belgian brand Extremis showed up with a very unexpected product. It was not a new design. It was a kit. Or more [...]
food map design
The urban-rural gap is quickly shrinking and interest in local, organic food is continuously increasing. And today, it’s not unusually to find gardeners harvesting their own produce even in a concrete-filled, car-centric city like Los Angeles. Enter Jon Wilson a former architect and now architect of the LA-based Food Map Design.
You can [...]
apple’s foray into Italian sandstone
You’ve probably read about the fancy new stonework in the International Apple store fit outs, if you haven’t, you can read about it here, here and here.
The sandstone used in the international fit outs was called Pietra Serena, a high quality Italian sandstone which is more uniform than traditional sandstones, without any structural [...]
showering au naturale
For those of you who love to have a shower au naturale in the outdoors, this washing wonder is for you. It’s an outdoor shower that you can plug into any hose [how convenient I hear you say] that shoots water from the earth upwards. Sort of like your very own personal well. Well, almost.
It’s [...]
weekly garden profile by cmg
Check out this unusual approach to landscape design. Here the concrete pavement has literally been cracked down the middle to form garden-bed style rows and planted out with a variety of greenery and flowering plants.
If this was your garden, no doubt you’d be tempted to just put a stack of pots around with plants to [...]
eco story / how porphyry is quarried