I've noticed a new trend in sustainable homeware this week: furniture and other objects being 'designed' by natural forms, from insects and animals to the surface of the Earth itself.
The rippled, curvy effect on the chopping boards by Fluid Earth (above) look a bit like geographical contours for a reason: they're based on the shape your chosen part of the earth, which using google maps as a template, are carved into the wood. Simply select your preferred location, select it on the map and send it in to be made.
But it's not just inanimate forms that are behind some of these objects of desire: another range has animals and insects to thank for its unique look. Front Design, a Swedish collective, asked animals to 'help them out' with a number of products, including 'rat wallpaper', 'snake hangers' and and 'insect table', on which the paths that insects have taken become a pattern. [Via Treehugger]
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