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00919699976817 Environmental Indicators & Climate Change
In an attempt to raise awareness of current climate challenges and provoke change, designers are visualizing the less obvious elements of our environment through a number of innovative products and artifacts. Sadiq Khan, mayor of London and vice chairman of the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, is committed to creating the cleaner, greener, better and […]
Discarded Items? Build Your Wardrobe & House
Responding to overconsumption and our oversaturated consumer landscape, designer Helen Kirkum proposes a circular alternative. She has repurposed and remastered discarded sneakers, breaking the originals down into multiple components and then reconfiguring these parts into new and unique products. With the Post-Couture Collective Martijn van Strien has set out to provide an alternative to disposable […]
Reviving Local Economies by Harvesting Waste
Posing the question of whether industry and nature can co-exist, designer Marlène Huissoud investigates waste material from the insect world in her sculpture collection Of Insects and Men. Combining honey bee bio-resin, a natural by-product of beekeeping, with manmade waste glass fragments, Huissoud challenges our understanding of ‘real’ and ‘fake’. The bio-resin is processed using […]
Whats Makes Thinking Small Effective in the Design World?
Part of what makes thinking small effective is, paradoxically, thinking big: drawing on global resources to make niche initiatives work. THE WORLD IS YOUR (OPEN) RESOURCE The Fab City concept is built around using internationally sourced knowledge to make workable local solutions. Part of what makes thinking small effective is, paradoxically, thinking big: drawing on […]
100% Natural Biodegradable Fabric Brand by Freitag, Zürich, Switzerland
‘Opaque but still transparent’ is the philosophy behind Freitag garments made from its new F-ABRIC textile, made from flax and hemp. The material itself may be rugged (the range includes jeans) but from fibre to finish, F-ABRIC is completely transparent. Every stage of the production process happens within a 2,500-kilometre radius of the Freitag factory […]
Biocol Labs Packaging & Mineral Health Treatment
Biocol Labs packaging by Studio Ah-Ha, Lisbon, Portugal Biocol Labs in Lisbon is an independent laboratory that works on various health-related projects using mineral- and plant-based science. Its food supplement packaging, designed by Studio Ah-Ha, reflects what Biocol refers to as the ‘post-nonsense’ approach that underpins the brand. Packaging and website navigation reflect this straightforwardness and effectively communicate the purpose […]
SS2019 Latest Collection by IKEA Eco-Friendly Furniture
In an effort to reduce its environmental impact, Ikea, the world’s largest furniture retailer, has developed a new range of products made from recycled waste materials. For the 2019 edition of its PS collection, design teams for the furniture and home accessories giant worked from the factory floor. This enabled them to observe and better […]
What is Pantone TPG?
Pantone TPG is the suffix for Textile Paper Green. The TPG formulation will replace the PANTONE FASHION HOME + INTERIORS TPX (Textile Paper Extended Range) formulation, which was redesigned to match rising global standards for sustainable manufacturing processes. Both TPG products under the FASHION HOME + INTERIORS umbrella – the Color Guide and the Color Specifier […]
