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reduce,reuse,recycle
   
REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE

"Design has become the most powerful tool with which man shapes his tools and environments (and, by extension, society and himself)." - Victor Papanek











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design snippets
 

DESIGN SNIPPETS

Zapiro, Nanda Soobben, Heath Nash, Marcus Fairs, Thomas Heatherwick, the Blackheart Gang, Afro Café, Ayse Birsel and Bibi Seck, 10 X 10 Housing, Athi Patra-Ruga, the Campana Brothers, Chimurenga, Gavin Rajah, Scott Roberson and more.








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competition
   

COMPETITION

Ceramicist Nicola Harris is known for the tactile minimalist homeware that she distributes through luxury retailers including lim and Lunar. One lucky reader can win a work from Nicola Harris’s Perforated series.









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the designer's dilemma
   

A KYOTO TREATY FOR DESIGN

The case for designers to tackle the challenges of environmentalism, posed by Valerie Casey, executive creative director of strategic-creative consultancy frog design









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new old solutions
   

NEW OLD SOLUTIONS

Setting a trend with his much lauded new collection of restored Alvar Aalto furniture
classics, Tom Dixon has no pretensions of getting green right just yet.










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flotsam and jetsam
   

FLOTSAM AND JETSAM

Ryan Frank is repurposing the debris of the urban ocean into quirky eco-sensitive furniture.










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2010
   

WASTE NOT WANT NOT

Superficial changes to the production, material, care methods and end-of-life scenario of garments do have substantial environmental benefits. Still, the real green grinch is in the nature of fashion itself. 







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buying green back
   

BUYING GREEN BACK

Greening the shopping trolley is possibly the easiest place to start going carbon neutral. Louisa Power from adila, the United Kingdom fair-trade company specialising in South African design, shares this handy guide.







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SUSTAINABLE = HUMANIST

Designing with the user in mind binds the emotional value and reduces the obsolescence of an object. Yves Béhar explains that usefulness and functionality are not the same thing.









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give away
   

ELECTRIC AVENUE

The electric car has been around the block - for well over 50 years, in fact - but its time is assuredly now.











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HOW MANY DESIGNERS DOES IT TAKE TO CHANGE THE LIGHT?

The visual icon of a bright idea, one of the most prevalent modern inventions, Thomas Edison's lightbulb is long overdue for a makeover.









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CARPET BOMBING

Traditional carpets are the equivalent of a layer of crude oil covering the floor. Rather keep the floor bare and get a mat.










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