Switch

Rafael Morgan Industrial Design has created rotative light switch designs that graphically represent energy waste using common positive/negative symbols.
I think these are super clever in that they encourage you to actually think about the power you're using each time you flip the switch, and are still a great, aesthetically pleasing design.



Rafael Morgan has heaps of other great products and ideas on his website, from lighting to furniture and other fun objects.

Grown Up Tree House

Treehotel is like a set of tree houses for grown ups. Sweden's Boreal Forrest is home to the new eco friendly hotel, inspired by director Jonas Selberg Augustsén’s 2008 documentary Trädälskaren (the Tree Lover). Treehotel, the brainchild of husband and wife team Britta Jonsson-Lindvall and Kent Lindvall, comprises of 7 small, separate buildings.
The small buildings are powered by sustainable electricity and are attached to the trees with a metal clamp (adjustable to fit the tree as it continues to grow) as opposed to screws and nails
The buildings have been designed by some of Sweden's best and most innovative architects including Bertil Harström (winner of the Excellent Swedish Design Award) and Tham & Videgård (the firm behind the Kalmar Museum of Art, another amazing piece of architecture).
The 'Mirror Box Room' is my favorite.

which would damage the trees.

The Cure for Ugly Branding

Have you ever wanted your medication and remedies in a stylish little box covered in minimalist yet brilliant branding? No? Well you can get it now anyway.
Help has designed some fantastic packaging to go around some supposedly fantastic remedies (I've not tried them so I really can't comment).

The idea?
From the website, 'Help Remedies was created to make solving simple health issues simple. We find the best solution there is, and take away everything else. By stripping away some of the complexity and fear mongering of the health industry, we hope to make medicine friendlier and more accessible, and in doing so empower people to make their own health decisions.'

And the packaging doesn't just look good. It's environmentally friendly, mostly made out of corn in fact.

Help's website is great too, it is informative and easy to read and actually quite funny (think Nudie juice or Vitamin Water), it even has a section for when you're bored where you can create and buy your own help t-shirt, solve other people's problems and let Help solve your random, non-medical problems.
You can buy packs online for US$4or six packs fr US$20. That said, the shipping is US$14.55 if you live in Australia, making the whole thing not so worth while. Hopefully Help products will be available here soon.