Should We Believe the Hype?

On Friday evening, the Greengaged week closed with a vibrant debate on Greenwashing. Chaired by Lucy Siegle, The Observer, panelists were John Grant (author of The Green Marketing Manifesto, co-founder of St Luke’s and London United), Chris Sherwin (Forum for the Future), Richard George (Plane Stupid), Ed Gillespie (Futerra), Stewart Rassier (Saatchi & Saatchi S) [...]

The Joy of Not Being Sold Anything

Image Credit: Greengaged
As part of the greenwash debate on Friday evening, Sophie Thomas (thomas.matthews) showed the above image. It really makes you think twice about our consumer culture, when the general public recognise the beauty of a blank billboard.

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 [...]

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, [...]