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Emma Olofsdotter is an economist specializing in design and engineering. She has studied how design organisations such as Svensk Form can be a part in spreading ideas of sustainability. Last week she visited Designgalleriet and now shares her experience with Saving the Planet In Style.
I have been a newly cut proud puffy poodle. I have had a sexy voice singing lovesongs in all my pink dresses. I have also been knitting-coffee-drinking-cookie-eating giggling granny. Like on a heroic oddessey I have met tickling sparkling poetry and fought the (my) monsters that holds the joy and freedom of creation captured.
I’m a believer. I believe design is a bearer of beliefs and a powerful master of change. Design By Leftovers talk a lot about love when they tell the stories of their reborn furniture. Love is seeing, sharing, transmitting and taking part in a memory or story. Read the rest of this entry »
This month’s designer column is written by architect and interior designer Fredrik Kjellgren at Kjellgren Kaminsky, an award winning architecture firm based in Göteborg, Sweden. They work with architecture in its broadest meaning ranging from furniture to city planning, from theory to practice. The following text will be written in Swedish, but for those not knowledgable in the language I propose a look at their website, which is all in English. Besides having started his own Architect firm, Fredrik also runs a think tank called SuperSustainable City.
This month’s designer column is written by Maria Heijkenskjöld at Sustainable Studio, a design and communications agency, based in Malmö and Stockholm. They are specialized in the marketing of future-friendly ideas and products, driven by the belief that a long term profitable business goes hand in hand with environmental and social responsibility.
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Eco aesthetics – a wolf in sheep’s clothing
A luring type of design is flourishing in the graphic design industry. It’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing where products are packaged in a suit that wants to look natural – but is far from the real thing. The risk is that the aesthetics become a kind of indulgence in which companies pay their way out of debt. Truly sustainable design offers no such easy way out, the process goes much deeper than a certain aesthetic. Read the rest of this entry »
Saving the Planet In Style now publishes the first monthly column from a design group. The column will give an insight into how salient designers think around their work and its relation to society and environment.
First group to speak up is Apocalypse Labotek, a designer duo based in Malmö that work with recycled materials in unconventional ways:
Instead of Eco toppping
In Germany we came across a petrol station with a colour profile in different shades of green, a stylized sun flower as logotype and with a roof covered with solar panels. Environmentally aware place, one might think, but wait a minute, what are they selling at this place? Read the rest of this entry »
