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SUSTAIN
ABILITY ÂŤMeeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needsÂť
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Inspired by the Mother Nature, in which everything is born thanks to this, using its resources to create… like a small cushion, a chair, or a great building… a poster, a book, a magazine… Everything what we created affects to us and not only to our life and quality of this, also to quality of life of the planet, we modified it and sometimes we don't think about the damage that we are making. The Ecodesign worries about this, nevertheless few knows on the matter, there is no much information spreading and in this age of the global warming is something worrisome. The creation of this e-zine is with the eagerness of being able to replace certain deficiencies that the communicational surroundings have left of side. Designers are intertwined with all sorts of businesses - that is why they could influence things at least on a small scale. Eco² wants to connect the green community and raise the awareness. So you are all sincerely invited to follow our steps, steps that we will give next to you in this long way, but not for that reason less interesting, to take care of our habitat taking advantage of the resources that is given to us, like also the more appropriate way.
Edition, Contents, Design and Diagramming: Carolina Vargas A. VALPARAISO - CHILE - SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER - 2008
EDITORIAL
CONTENTS
INTERVIEW Fumiko Ikeda of gift_ and Hiromi Nishi of ASYL, about Treasured Trash
ARTICLE D e s i g n & Tr a n s i t i o n Systems thinking for One Planet Living™
PROJECT T h o m a s . M a t t h e w s : ten ways design can fight climate change
GALERY An exhibition of 14 beautiful, innovative and environmentally friendly designs from all the world.
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INTERVIEW Design Week is in full mode beginning today, and the first project picked up for you out of those many, many exhibitions is treasured trash. Actually, you might remember them from their last year’s Live Paint Show that encouraged people to avoid using plastic bottles. As they are so nice, we simply have to feature them again and tell you all about their new efforts for the environment! In an interview to the organisers, Fumiko Ikeda of gift_ and Hiromi Nishi of ASYL, they tell us all about their aims to successfully market works made from recycled materials and how they recycle common office trash to great office equipment - in collaboration with famous office equipment supplier ASKUL.
First of all, what is treasured trash all So, which work was actually placed on the market? about?
The meaning of “treasured trash” comes from our concept of changing trash into resources. At last year’s DesignTide, we participated in the event with a feature exhibition on the theme of green and environmentally friendly designs. But since some of those works were actually put on the market, we decided to continue with the project throughout the year.
“Stay at Ladder” is a recycling bin with bags positioned like racks designed by Akiko Fukuda from Limb Co.. We all know that recyclable waste has to be washed and sorted before taking it to the collection point. So last year, we announced this rack construction as a way to save space and easy carry bags as a concept model. Then we spent a year making trial models. The finished version is officially available at this year’s Design Tide.
“Stay at Ladder,” a space-saving rack construction for trash separation designed by Akiko Fukuda of Limb Co., is “treasured trash’s” first work to be actually marketed. Check it out, it’s now on sale at the DesignTide’s “Tide Market”!
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From last year’s “treasured trash:” “Tide Chandelier” by British designer Stuart Haygarth. A beautiful chandelier, completely composed of man-made debris that had washed up on a coastline. You are collaborating with the major office equipment supplier ASKUL this year - how did this come about? ASKUL is a highly design-conscious company and they have been participating in DesignTide from the early days when it was called “tokyo designers block” a couple of years ago. Last year, ASKUL kindly produced the official eco-bag together with DesignTide and was up for another more environmentally friendly product this year again. So, we got in touch with them and suggested transmitting treasured trash’s last year’s theme of “Not Trash but Resource” over to offices: By that, we mean placing recycling posts for common office trash, such as paper and CD-ROMs, and combining great designs with the recycled materials produced from that recycling post. And then, returning the environmentally friendly products to offices as ASKUL supplies. However, creating that system is not going to be easy from a practical standpoint, so we agreed to start with whatever we can do for now…
Too bad it can’t be realised immediately, but that is definitely a great idea! So, what exactly is this year’s “treasured trash” going to be like?
We are displaying our works at the main DesignTide site, and, depending on the feedback, we are thinking of producing some of them commercially. We selected Akiko Fukuda and VINTA as designers due to their presence at last year’s DesignTide and their ability to come up with designs that are suitable for actual marketing. The picture at the right shows a material called “Ecoply” made by recycling plastic bottle caps. As these are made from Polypropylene, they are very hard. But if you heat a mixture of 50 percent bottle caps and 50 percent fiberised waste wood, such as plywood and wood chips, in a microwave at about 200°C, then the caps will melt and act as an adhesive to hold the waste wood together to form this recycled ply board. This “Ecoply” made from 100 percent trash is currently only used as a building material. The good thing is, after it is use, it can be recycled again and again as “Ecoply,” so it’s completely waste-free!
PET BOTTLE CAP
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”Ecoply” material that can be recycled over and over again: The little green and red dots in brown come from the colours of plastic bottle caps. Hot drinks tend to have warm coloured caps while cold drink caps come in cold colours, so the colour of “Ecoply” also changes slightly according to seasons.
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It has such a warm feel that you would never imagine that it’s made from trash‌. Exactly. Akiko Fukuda is working with this material and she fell in love with it immediately. It seemed to be a great inspiration for her. This time, the coupling of the designers and materials turned out very nicely and both designers seem to be totally fond of their materials.
So how did Akiko Fukuda come up with this material? We asked her to make a unit shelf, table and a recycling post. As for the recycling post, there might be different kinds of trash in different offices, so we made pictogram stickers to go with it to indicate where each type of trash should go.
The recycling post designed by Akiko Fukuda.
Then what about VINTA’s designs? There is something called “Pulp Mould” that is often used to make egg trays and packaging for electronics, and VINTA was attracted to this material. They designed a small desk tray out of this. Beside these items, we are also displaying coasters with our “See You Again!” message from last year, meaning throwing away trash isn’t the last farewell. They are made from our third green material from Australia, which is usually VINTA transforms an ordinary pulp mould into… a small desk tray!
These cute and handy coasters with such a warm texture are shaped after the speech bubble from last year’s “See You Again!” message, by the art director Yuji Tokuda. Check them out at DesignTide! 9-10
Incidentally, do you have any idea for the price of the above “Ecoply” recycling post when it’s actually put on the market? I don’t think it will be as low-priced as colour boxes - but it should be less than the ones made from ordinary ply wood. So, even if the these might be at the same price, it would be great to offer customers an option of ply wood or green material. LOVVER SOLE BOY made with old sneakers. By Kaname Okajima.
No doubt these environmentally friendly products with distinguished designs will be popular…. In fact, we consider this more as a design project rather than an environmental one – designs come first, and then the use of eco materials. Starting with the ecology and environmental issues would only make a lot of hot air but no action, so it would be nice to come up with products that make people happy just by watching and touching them.
Article published in Pingmag October 2007 http://pingmag.jp/2007/10/31/
What is the next challenge after this project? It would be nice to design an entire lifestyle like an eco village, but it’s more like a place to visit rather than somewhere to live. Recently, more people are starting to farm and return to nature, so garden and the village lifestyle sounds interesting, too.
Fumoko and Hiromi, thank you very much! Looking forward to seeing you at the DesignTide site!! Kioshi Kuroda. Live painting show in the "smoking garden�.
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ARTICLE Design & Transition Systems thinking for One Planet Living™
Proposition by Jody Boehnert to be presented at Changing the Change conference in July 2008.
We have no alternative but to learn to live within the natural imperatives of the ecosystem. One Planet Living™ is the goal and the sooner we can make it happen the better. How can design participate in this change? The primary tool in this transition is systems thinking, a conceptual process necessary for reconfiguration of the systems that are presently entirely unsustainable. Design has the potential to communicate systems thinking and help embed new cognitive facilities into public consciousness. Design can communicate integrated thinking and is useful towards visualizing & instigating transition. Still, this vision of design is still largely unrealized. The notion of design itself must change. Design must embrace its ability to facilitate change. Unless this change happens design will be superfluous to the most basic challenges we now face. Features of a new design paradigm that can change the change are the democratization & the dematerialization of design.
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Transition Towns is a community design initiative for mitigation and adaptation to post-peak oil and climate change. The Transition Towns process facilitates re-localization. Here communities organize to meet environmental challenges directly. Transition Towns is a movement that started in South West England in 2 0 0 5 . T h e Tr a n s i t i o n To w n phenomenon has been extraordinarily popular and there are now 36 towns, cities or areas that have Transition Town movements active. A Transition Town is a space that has initiated a community design process mapping ‘energy descent’, a timetabled strategy for weaning the locality off fossil fuels. The Transition Town process creates agency and encourages practical action. The movement is a result of communities concerned with the lack of systemic plans comprehensive enough to respond to what they perceive as the threats ahead.
Transition Towns is design activism led by non-designers. The professional design community would be clever to take notice. The Transition Towns methodology is inspired by permaculture design, a design philosophy for working with Nature in building systems to support human existence. Permaculture has a number of guiding principles that help it take account of existing systems and plan in complexity. It encourages strategies that contribute resilience and stability to ecosystems and other systems alike. This awareness of systemic and ecological principles engages a holistic approach to design. It is indicative of a new paradigm informed by ecological literacy. Ecological literacy is an understanding of natural systems as well as an awareness of how a society must interface with these systems to be sustainable. This kind of systems thinking will change how designers work, but it requires an interdisciplinary approach to education, research and practice in design.
Article published in EcoLabs http://eco-labs.org/index.php
Transition Towns is a sign of the radical democratization of design. Still designers are also needed in this process. Design can help people organize and create networks. Design can help people feel connected with others. Designers can help audiences see and understand the bigger picture and how individuals fit into this picture. The skills to build cohesion, focus and to communicate new agendas are needed in the transition process and design has the skill set to do this. The question is: do designers themselves see enough of the bigger picture to want to engage? Designers could be of great value to the transition - if they decide to chart new territory.
Big picture thinking dramatically changes design priorities. Once One Planet Living™ become commonplace design will be forced to change. When sustainability is given a more rigorous definition and ecological literacy is embedded into design education, designers will need to take account of existing systems and plan in complexity. Design strategies will contribute resilience and stability to ecosystems and other systems alike (rather than distract us from the systems that support life). An awareness of environmental imperatives will necessarily change design. Designers will no longer be capable of feigning innocence in an era with a challenge as great as climate change and resource depletion. The sooner we learn these basic principles the better. Design motivates action and our actions have implications; like it or not - designers are implicit.
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THOMAS.MATTHEWS
Sophie Thomas and Kristine M a t t h e w s s e t u p thomas.matthews in 1997 having met a few years before at the Royal College of Art. They had, and still have, a shared passion 'for bringing outstanding design and communication to important issues'. One of their earliest projects was commissioned by Friends of the Earth to launch International Buy Nothing Day in the UK. In response to a brief that asked for a poster, they instead created a 'No Shop' in central London that sold nothing, but offered ideas and information about the campaign.
PROJECT
In addition to using computers, the studio includes screen printing and letterpress facilities which enable them to incorporate hand-made design skills into their projects. They try to use local skills and products, recycled and reclaimed materials and, very importantly, to do more with less. The studio likes to support what they believe in and to work for clients and charities who push agendas that they care about.
Ten ways design can help fight climate change
thomas.matthews created this A6 brochure from waste make-ready sheets, french-folded and printed on the plain side. They kept the brochure compact in size, used a local printer and vegetable-based inks.
thomas.matthews believes in two things: good design and sustainability. When we say that we design sustainably, the response is often a slightly quizzical look. We think the best way to defi ne it is by example. So, what can design do to combat climate change? Here is our starter list: 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
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1. re-thinking We step back and think before we dive in to fi nd a different way to communicate our clients’ needs.
No Shop Friends of the Earth The client asked for a poster to encourage people to stop shopping – and consider their consuming habits – for the UK’s first International No Shop Day. Instead we fought fi re with fi re, using the language of shopping – sale signs, shopping bags, a ‘shop’ stripped of goods – to form a No Shop brand and turn consumerism on its head. No Shop was reported over twenty networks and newspapers and has since appeared in many books, magazines and exhibitions.
2. re-using We aim to achieve more with less. We re-use things to create something new. (Then when all is said and done, we recycle).
Refl ect On... Victoria & Albert Museum Discarded acrylic sheets were transformed into a stunning interactive piece for one of the museum’s open nights. The Megalith structure was screenprinted with a layer of metallic ink and lit from within. Each side asked visitors to confess, refl ect and deliberate. In writing their response on the surface with a pencil the ink was scratched away, allowing the light to burst through and illuminate their words.
3. using friendly materials Whenever we can we use recycled and innovative products and ask suppliers to stock eco-friendly materials. We avoid specifying (and wasting) environmentally harmful materials.
Your Ocean The National Maritime Museum Possibly the most sustainable permanent gallery in the UK. Designed with innovative recycled and reclaimed materials and using construction methods geared to minimise waste and energy. Your Ocean describes how our everyday actions and choices affect the health of the oceans. Footnotes throughout describe the sustainable methods used to create the exhibition.
4. saving energy We reduce our clients’ carbon footprint by using sustainable energy sources. People power is best, or failing that, renewable energy is becoming more effi cient. We design to minimise energy demand. London 2012 Roadshow Olympic Delivery Authority A unique community consultation programme used a fl eet of modified bikes, visiting venues across fi ve East London boroughs. Public participation was encouraged using a kit of Polaroid cameras, stickers, pens, leaflets and other interactive materials. Using bikes gave out a positive message not only about sustainability but also about the Olympics and the role of sport and healthy living.
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5. sharing new ideas We seek out and use new technologies and materials and collaborate whenever we can. Two heads are better than one.
Pavilion at Glastonbury The British Council We brought together a team that included engineers Structure Workshop and furniture designer AndrĂŠ Klauser to design and build a flat-pack, reusable, eco-friendly structure. The frame is made from locally grown sweet chestnut while the stretched fabric is a non-PVC alternative.
6. designing to last We want to design things that last by specifying the right material for the job. This avoids the need for replacement (and a doublewhammy on cost and materials). ‘Lifetime costing’ makes you look at the big picture. Granville Plus Signage Anne Thorne Architects Partnership and South Kilburn NDC A colourful and robust regeneration solution for a community centre and nursery. Signage incorporates imagery generated in classes held at the centre, which helped to instill local ownership and pride. Vitreous enamel signs (the material used for London Underground signage) and architecturally integrated ceramic tiles, make for beautiful results that will withstand years of wear and tear.
8. supporting what we believe We work for clients who push agendas we care about: better recycling, fighting climate change, tackling hunger, raising money to make good things happen.
Get On Board ActionAid International
7. staying local, buying ethical
We designed the identity and collateral for a campaign which highlighted third world debt to world leaders at the G8 Summit. A bus travelled from Johannesburg to the summit in Edinburgh, collecting thousands of personal messages on poverty along the way.
We work to find good local suppliers for each job, to avoid the extra energy and pollution created by lengthy transport, and to strengthen the local community and economy. When we can’t buy locally, we source ethical suppliers. Earth Centre Print and Interpretation Earth Centre and The Millennium Commission We worked with local printers and suppliers wherever possible on our interpretation and print for the Earth Centre in Doncaster. An excellent Sheffi eld printer produced the visitor guides. Covers were created from used plastic bags collected in a local shopping centre, melted down and transformed into colourful and unique pieces.
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10. saving money ...and finally, we demonstrate to our clients that thinking ‘sustainable’ can save resources and money. Saving waste and energy and making a product work harder is smart. We, and our clients, often have to think more creatively to find sustainable solutions. What Comes Around Goes Around thomas.matthews
9. inspiring, having fun We want to create design that is beautiful, clever and sustainable all at once. The projects tell their own sustainable story, to encourage others to get on board. We hope that by having fun our enthusiasm will be contagious. RE: mail at the Travelling Apothecary Show Wellcome Trust and Scarlet Projects Our stall provided a cure for the modern day ailment of the abundance of junk mail and the absence of nice letters. A month’s worth of junk mail was collected and remade into envelopes. Aided with pens, paper, stamps and an inspiring backdrop, people were encouraged to write and post a slushy love letter, an overdue thank you, a politically charged memo...
Devised to get a college to start recycling, we put a week’s worth of actual college waste on display: 5700 polystyrene cups and 1600 cans. Our research showed the college how it could save money by separating and recycling its waste. Meanwhile the mugs that we designed were sold in the canteen as an alternative to polystyrene and raised money to buy recycling bins.
talk to us Get in touch to tell us what we’ve missed out and who we should be t a l k i n g t o . V i s i t thomasmatthews.com to learn more about our working methods and to join in an ongoing conversation about sustainability, good design, and what’s next.
Becoming Carbon Positive We are assessing our energy use, waste handling and other business habits to reduce our carbon footprint further. What we can’t reduce, we offset through helping to fund a variety of ‘greening’ projects. Our next step is to become ‘carbon positive’: working to inform and encourage a change in the habits of our associates and clients so that they too can combat climate change.
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GALERY
An exhibition of 14 beautiful, i n n o v a t i v e a n d environmentally friendly designs from all over the world.
Especial Edition by Wallpaper* To see the complete edition visit http://www.wallpaper.com/ecoedit /ecoedit.html
Qbert vase By Andi Kovel for Esque
Flower picking may be a bit controversial in regards to ecofriendliness, but in case you have to go that way and get a bunch of souvenirs from your day in the countryside, there is a lovely set of vases by USA-based Esque glassworks studio, which will give them a perfect new home in your living room. Andi Kovel, Esque's famous glass artist, created a vase design which has already become classic in the company's history. The qbert vase comes in either extra light blue or purple/ivory, made from hand-blown recycled glass, and on top of that, the whole process is powered by alternative, wind energy. The vase is a true representative of Kovel's work, both through is artistic sculptural form and by its undisputed environmentally friendly side, which reflects Esque's whole ecological ethic.
www.esque-studio.com
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Hex-Table By the Wilson Brothers
Design is a family business for the Wilsons; Brothers Ben and Oscar Wilson have been working together in several projects and their latest work includes the hex-table. The new low occasional table was designed for the streetware fashion label Stussy and comes in an easily assembled, folding-and-clipping flat pack of two identical cut components.
Ben's 3D design and Oscar's graphics have been combined artfully to create a strong geometric piece, which not only weighs just 1.2 kg but is also made out of Beeboard; a 100% recyclable and biodegradable cardboard option. The product will be available to buy later this year, with plain and graphic-decorated options to pick from.
www.wilsonbrothers.co.uk www.benwilsondesign.co.uk www.studiooscar.com
100% organic bamboo By Bambu
lodge in Indonesia but that is about as far as we want to integrate it into our lives - until now that is. Naturally stain resistant, available in a series of rich, warm tones and equipped with a tensile strength superior than some grades of steel, this humble plant is starting to widen its appeal. That, and the fact it grows incredibly fast making it the ideal alternative to timber and petroleum products. Bambu's utensils are made from 100% organic bamboo and with their original shapes and soft, satiny finish they look great in the kitchen.
www.bambuhome.com
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'Piasa' room divider By Emiliano Godoy
Emiliano Godoy is determined that good design can only be good if it does not harm the environment. An industrial design graduate from Pratt University in New York, Godoy currently resides in his native Mexico City where he runs his own studio as well as teaches sustainable design at two undergraduate industrial design programs. His 'Piasa' room divider is part of a larger sewn wood collection and uses only sustainable wood. Made from any length the divider can be shipped folded, therefore minimizing the packaging size.
www.godoylab.com
Birdhouse By Godoy Lab
There wouldn't be much paint in us going on about the future of eco-friendly products if we didn't consider one of its most important factors -education. Talking the lead is industrial designer Emiliano Godoy who teaches sustainable design at two of Mexico City's technological institutes with his wealth of experience of environmental, social and economic aspects of sustainable design. An established ecodesigner in his own right, it's his continual interest in molding the minds of young 'uns that has caught our attention. This adorable birdhouse, made out of cork was created by Brenda Osorio, a student who enrolled in the 'Sustainability and Design' course Godoy teaches at the Tecnologico de Monterrey. With talent like that, we feel assured that the future of design is not only sustainable, but bright.
www.godoylab.com
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Legend shelves By Christoph Delcourt for RocheBobois
The Legend, designed exclusively by the young French designer, Christoph Delcourt, is not only the beginning of a new collection for Roche-Bobois; it is an introduction to a whole new altitude and ongoing program for the company, which aims to bring all collections up to sustainability-orientated standards. The Legend Bookcase is included in the first designs for the collection, clearly inspired by the organic growth patterns of the natural world. The natural finish Oak bookcase is sourced from sustainable managed French forests and its production is completely chemical free. The whole collection aims to express the way the company feels about the impact the ecological challenges have in the design world and the modern house furniture. The collection will be available in the UK from midSeptember.
www.roche-bobois.com
Perch! By Amy Adams
While handmade objects often come with crafty, irregular proportion-type connotations, Amy Adams' ceramic line Perch! is anything but. We never would have guessed that the pure, sleek forms that make up Adams' collection of home objects and lighting were each made personally by her own hand in a little Brooklyn studio. Often drawing inspiration from birds and nature, Adams' designs adapt familiar avian shapes into sophisticated home embellishments, like egg-like bowls and bird bath shaped carafes that both display a clarity of line. Using all-natural clay and a low-fire glazing process, every step in Perch's production isn't just non-toxic, but low-impact as well, since Adams is quick to recycle any scrap materials around her. We've already cleared room on our mantles for the fat Kiki vase and the stout Mason jar, available in a modern light grey and charming lemon yellow.
www.perchdesign.net
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Blankets By Blankettmann
One man's trash is another man's treasure. When Amanda Mann discovered bags of old cashmere sweaters that her mother was ready to throw away, she decided it was a waste to let them go that easily. Mann took the salvaged jumpers and had them made into cozy, patchwork style wraps and blankets, an idea she has turned into a successful business by rescuing out of shape(or out of fashion) cashmere items at jumble sales and charity shops, giving wellworm items a second life. Arranged and matched by color, the backs, fronts and even the sleeves of each jumper are pieced together to form blankets in three different sizes. All the blankets are stitched up within a five mile radius of her home, so there is hardly a carbon footprint left behind after they have been produced.
www.blankettmann.com
Seatbelt cosmetic bag By Ecocentric
The shamefully popular practice of assembling accessories from redundant packaging, such as tin cans, sweet wrappers, old posters and tires has given a bad name recycled design. But we do have time for old car seatbelts. When reworked into a continuous stretch of fabric they have been proven to make quite desirable furnishings and bags. They make particularly respectable wash bags when reassigned, since the material is solid, wipeable and pretty watertight.
This one is made by a respected London-based designer, whose focus is making bags of a high standard of design from recycled goods. The seatbelts come from end-of-theline product in discontinued colors finishes, produced in UK factories. It is part of a collection of items designed with the environment in mind for Ecocentric, a British company which focuses on high-end local eco-design.
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Haute Green Exhibition Intent on proving that good design can be ecological, Haute Green is an exhibition that showcases the best of sustainable contemporary home design. Founded a year ago by t h e e c o - d e s i g n e r, B a r t Bettencourt and design publicist Kimberly Oliver, the show not only features the work of emerging and established green designers from around the world, but also generates awareness for environmentfriendly design approaches and manufacture processes. Last year, we were wowed by Daniel Michalik's chaise made entirely out of recyclable cork, a rug made out of scrap fabric from fashion label Boudicca and this grid wall decoration made from wood offcuts by Matt Gagnon. Running alongside the ICFF this year, we are confident that green design can hold its own together with the best of the rest.
www.hautegreen.com
Rocks ice bucket and glasses By Andi Kovel for Esque
With our quest in finding our perfect eco-friendly alcoholic drink for our parties well underway, we needed the appropriate, equally environmentally conscious barware to complement it. USA-based Esque Studio, leaders in recycled glass works, proved to be the ideal choice to cover our needs with glass expert Andi Kovel's beautiful Rocks ice bucket and glasses. The set comprises an ice bucket and four glasses, half clear glass, half white-smoked. The
glass, blown in an organic, soft, curvy shape, comes from recycled stock and is processed in an electric furnace which is powered by wind energy, making it one of the most ecologically friendly options of its kind in the market.
www.esque-studio.com
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Coffee and side tables By Stephen Burks from Artecnica
Next time you kick back in the garden, revel in the fact that you're doing good- well at least if you are lounging on the new 'Tatu' collection from Artecnica you are. Designed by New York designer Stephen Burks, the range is created in collaboration with a wire weaver from one of Cape Town's poorest townships. Made out of steel wire, the tables break down into a basket, bowl and tray making them not only good looking and functional but help create a sustainable source of income for a struggling community.
www.artecnicainc.com
Saturnus lamp By Bomdesign
The use of vinyl today is somewhat of a rarity- unless that is, you are a vintage record collector, a retroenthusiast or, in fact Dutch design duo Michael Bom and Antoinet Deurloo. The partners are committed to environmentally friendly design regularly using re-cycled material, following the general philosophy of working only with what they can find ready-made in their environment. The Saturnus lamp is one of their latest works, launched in early 2007, and it is made completely out of old records. So if you are in doubt about what to do with your old record collection, just get in touch with Atelier Bondesign and they will create for you a custom-made stylish design lamp out f them.
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ECOLIBRARY
Eco Deco: Chic, Ecological Design Using Recycled Materials By Stewart Walton An inspiring book that will encourage you to take a stroll around life's back door and examine the everyday junk and waste that we trash every day.
The Sustainability Revolution : Portrait of a Paradigm Shift By Andres R. Edwards Sustainability' has become a buzzword in the last decade, but its full meaning is complex, emerging from a range of different sectors. In practice, it has become the springboard for millions of individuals throughout the world who are forging the fastest and most profound social transformation of our time the Sustainability Revolution.
Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage By Daniel Esty, Andrew S. Winston ‘Green to Gold’ shows how companies generate lasting value, cutting costs, reducing risk, increasing revenues, and creating strong brands, by building environmental thinking into their business strategies.
www.eco2mag.cl
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