Sustainable Design for Print

Did you know that recycling one tonne of paper can save 7000 gallons of water, 17 trees, 380 gallons of oil, 3 cubic yards of landfill space and 4000kw of energy!? On Friday afternoon, non profit enterprise Three Trees Don’t Make a Forest held a three hour sustainable print and paper workshop to explore how [...]

Greengaged Exclusive:
Cradle to Cradle Revision!

In November 2008, Professor Michael Braungart will launch a new UK edition of ‘Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things’, the prolific and best-selling manifesto “calling for the transformation of human industry through ecologically intelligent design.” Greengaged are excited to announce that the new edition will be published by Random House, and in [...]

Best Practice:
Remarkable Products

Following an introduction to her work as Design Week’s green columnist in the early ’90s and the publication of the first green graphic design book, “The Graphic Designer’s Greenbook: A Handbook and Source Guide on Design and the Environment”, Anne Chick (Director of the Sustainable Design Research Centre, Kingston University) took the opportunity this week [...]

Green Your Studio!

Sophie Thomas and Nat Hunter of Three Trees Don’t Make a Forest took to the Greengaged stage on Tuesday afternoon, to offer designers their insights, opinions and advice on how to make their studio’s greener. The workshop was engaging, and the advice realistic. Where to start? Make a list, calculate the carbon footprint and expenditure [...]

Best Practice:
Product Design

In the second series of best practice case studies on Product Design, Simon Terry of Anglepoise, Cressida Granger of DeWeNe and Tom Fishburne from Method Products each presented a fifteen minute presentation of their ethical design practices at greengaged on Tuesday 16th September.

Simon Terry of Anglepoise showed various products to illustrate the companies ecologically friendly [...]

Best Practice:
Provokateur/We Want Tap

As part of the greengaged best practice case studies on Tuesday morning, Joshua Blackburn presented the work of five-year young communication design agency, Provokateur.
Explaining the teams motivation to influence good behavioural change, he presented We Want Tap, their consumer campaign and product line. The campaign is simple, the ambition is big, “We want to [...]

Best Practice:
thomas.matthews

On Tuesday September 16th, day two of greengaged kicked off with a series of best practice case studies from leading design practitioners. The first series of events, focused on Communication and Graphic Design, began with a presentation from Sophie Thomas, director/co-founder of thomas.matthews.

Sophie introduced the work of thomas.matthews, explaining that with a touch of humour, [...]