The deadline is quickly approaching for this month’s Picture This contest. The theme is “Autumn Harvest,” judged by photographer Charles Mann. There aren’t many entries yet, so if you’ve been reluctant to submit an image because of the stiff competition in previous months, this might be a good time for you to take a chance.

It’s easy to enter: post your chosen photo on your own blog, then visit Fran’s first-of-the-month announcement post (Picture This Photo Contest for September 2010) and leave us two links: one to your post and one directly to your photo. The deadline

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I kicked off my tour of the London Design Festival this morning with a visit to Danish textile company Kvadrat’s London showroom. The space, designed by architect David Adjaye and designer Peter Saville, is worthy of a blog entry of its own, but I went there to see some brilliant new work by Barcelona-born graphic and print designer Cristian Zuzunaga, who has created a collection of curtains for Kvadrat using bold architectural shapes. The two designs, Skyline and Cityscape, feature multiple overlapping layers, which reveal subtle shapes and unexpected colours. He has also designed a colourful cushion collection for Kvadrat called Squaring of the Circle.

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With high-end material selection combined with superb Scandinavian design and appliances from Bulthaup, Gaggenau and Hajom, it’s no surprise that NeXT House delivers some of the first class architect designed prefab homes in the market. We spoke with Thomas Mårtensson, CEO – Global sales of NeXT House, and learned that you can buy a house, designed by an award winning architect, filled with dream products at a price you never thought possible.

What inspired you to get involved in prefab?

Before I started Next House I was previously involved in a project with IKEA, where we renovated apartments for rental in a cost-effective way but still with a high level of design. The

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While the go-to green flooring product has recently been bamboo, EcoTimber is going the distance with something even better. Their Strand Poplar Flooring is made up of all the post-industrial scraps of poplar that the furniture industry usually chucks. The company uses their super-eco resin infusion process to bind the scraps into a very durable and beautiful flooring material. The product was recently named one of the Top 20 Green Building Products of 2010 by Sustainable Industries.

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