blog.makezine.com - 8/20/2008
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MAKE Editor and Publisher Dale Dougherty writes from the California State Fair:
Here is one of my favorite sights, a "green" truck in the Farm area. It's an old truck covered in grass with vegetables and flowers growing in the flat bed. Talk about a raised bed! Think how the yards of rural America could be transformed once rusty wrecks become warm and fuzzy, like something out of a ...
freitag.ch - 8/18/2008
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freitag.ch —
DESIGN-A-TRUCK CONTEST 07/08 In 2007 we invited designers,
illustrators and anyone with a pen to participate in...
the first FREITAG Design-A-Truck Contest. The topic: Transit . Over 3 000 contenders from 70 countries all over the world signed up. But ...
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Truck as flower bed
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MAKE: founder Dale Dougherty went to the California State Fair where he snapped the photo above. Dale writes:
Here is one of my favorite sights, a "green" truck in the Farm area. It's an old truck covered in grass with vegetables and flowers growing in the flat bed. Talk about a raised bed! Think how the yards of rural America could be transformed once rusty wrecks become warm and fuzzy, like something out of a Pixar movie.
Grass-covered truck (Makezine.com)
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