The 5.5 French Designers have created the “Reanim” series of furnitures, which is collection of “prothesis of injured objects” .
lundi 3 mai 2010
Reanim furnitures (5.5 designers)
The 5.5 French Designers have created the “Reanim” series of furnitures, which is collection of “prothesis of injured objects” .
Background Stories Coffea project (Arlene Birt)
Coffee containers which show the back-story of the coffee’s production in terms as it relates to social and environmental impacts, based on real informations and datas from the companies.
Droog Life Cycle Tee-shirt (Arlen Birt)
A t-shirt that tells its own story. The t-shirts tags are cut from the inside and stitched with the story of the t-shirt’s own life-cycle in term of production and distribution.
Repair Manifesto (Platform21)
The design collective “Plateform 21” has even created a manifesto that celebrates the process of repairing. They consider it as the ultimate form of sustainable design because it doesn’t consume any energy and their aim is to reintroduce it in human reflex as something creative and fun.
mercredi 14 avril 2010
Traditional Japanese Packaging (Hideyuki Oka)
Hideyuki Oka, created the book "How to Wrape Five Eggs", that shows traditional Japanese packaging made with 100% natural materials. This means that it is still possible to package product without any use of energy and pollution.
"Background Stories" (Arlene Birt)
This packaging foe chocolate is sustainable because it gives all the information of the production of the product, from resources extraction, to labour, and distribution.
Sustainable Clendar (Marine Cochet)
This "sustainable" Calendar is made to be able to use forever. It implies that you don't need to buy a new one each year.100% made with trashes.
Lite2go packaging
Lite2go is an innovative lamp designed by KnoEnd that eliminates packaging.When the lamp is assembled, the packaging itself becomes the shade for the light bulb and fixture contained within. This clever example of double-use shows how the use of the packaging can be optimized.
mardi 13 avril 2010
Shell Springboard programme (Thomas Matthews studio)
Print material for the Shell Springboard programme that provides finance to low carbon business ideas in the UK.
http://thomasmatthews.com/
dimanche 11 avril 2010
Thoma Matthews' Manifesto
'Tis the season for Top 10 lists; today's installment comes from the London-based design firm thomas.matthews, who've developed a manifesto [PDF], of sorts, about how they work to fight climate change. Required reading for designers interested in not trashing the planet.
1. Re-thinking
2. Re-using
3. Using friendly materials
4. Saving energy
5. Sharing new ideas
6. Designing to last
7. Staying local, buying ethical
8. Supporting what we believe
9. Inspiring, having fun
10. Saving money
Taken by itself, without some context in what the firm has done, as examples of each, the list is a little uninspiring; it's a bit like saying something like "We do things better" and leaving it at that -- a nice sentiment, but lacking the details that make it a meaningful, actionable philosophy. But take a look at what they've done: for "re-thinking," they noted their "No Shop" shop, a storefront they created for Friends of the Earth to convince folks to consume less; for "supporting what we believe," they note their clientèle who "work for things we care about," like better recycling, fighting climate change and tackling hunger.
Perhaps the most important note about this manifesto, though, is not that thomas.matthews is not that they recycle whenever they can, or that they source locally and support local economies, but that they've realized that there is something that they can do with every project, every client, every day, to lighten their footprint and help fight global warming. And that's a lesson we can all take something from. ::thomas.matthewsvia ::MoCo Loco
http://www.treehugger.com/
A Greeting Card that Becomes a Garden
After setting up the garden and adding water, seeds usually sprout within three days. The plant, a grassy herb-like fauna, will last approximately two weeks and requires minimal sunlight and care, making it an easily cultivated novelty for anyone without a green thumb.
jeudi 25 mars 2010
Biodegradable bag (60 Bag)
This bag is an example of biodegradable design, because it turns into compost in 60 days. It is composed of linen, viscose, and fibers made from industrial waste. the advantage of this bag is that it respect environment and it doesn't need an important recycling process.
Reused newspapers. "No ink. No bleeds." (Malu Roldan)
"How To Be A Graphic Designer Without Hurting Little Bunnies was the title of my undergrad thesis. I spent two semesters exploring experimental sustainable graphic design.When I began this project, my first instinct was to overprint old newspapers. The more I researched the environmental impact of inks, the more I thought about not using any inks at all. So I created these posters by cutting used newspapers."
Malu roldan
lundi 22 mars 2010
"Guides for Sustainable Communities" (Thomas Matthews)
Thomas Matthews studio designed a user-friendly publication series: "guides for sustainable communities".
The aesthetic was created with the capacity to accommodate future issues and was produced using vegetable-based inks and recycled paperstocks.
http://www.thomasmatthews.com/
vendredi 19 mars 2010
Eco-friendly materials for packaging (Austin Happel)
This tea package designed by Austin Happel stands out for its consideration to distribution by being stackable, this reduces the amount of additional packaging during shipping. Also the containers are made from PLA (Polyatic Acid), corn-based plastic which is compostible, and they are printed with vegetable based ink.
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