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5 surprisingly sustainable fashion fabrics
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
It's not just organic cotton and hemp on the sustainable fabrics line up. Here are five of the most curious eco-friendly textiles.
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6 Nov 19
Cow's milk plastic provides a natural, eco-friendly alternative
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Creative Economy
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Design Thinking
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Product Design
Using an extract from skimmed milk, Tessa Silva-Dawson created a durable alternative to harmful plastics.
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11 Jul 16
Getting milk to the market is helping Rwandan genocide survivors
Next Generation
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African Design
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Rwandan genocide survivors received cows from the government but were unable to sell their milk at the local market until Chantal Butare came along.
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5 Oct 15
Reconnecting to the idea of the udder
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Food Design
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Product Design
5.5 Design Studio have created the "Vache à Lait" (Milk Cow) in order to reconnect consumers to the idea of milk coming from the udder.
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11 Aug 15
Innovative milk carton designed to combat Sao Paulo water crisis
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Design Activism
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Design students in Sao Paulo, Brazil have designed a milk container that radically reduces the costs of recycling traditional milk cartons.
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10 Aug 15
Take Five
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The top feature this week told the story of a young designer following the trail of his Zulu roots.
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4 Apr 15
Food fight: Shin-ichi Takemura
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Food Design
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Design Thinking
Shin-ichi Takemura says we should rather be talking about being “creative” than “sustainable" in terms of the environment.
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15 Nov 11
Food fight: Sita Bhaumik
Design News
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Food Design
It boggles artist Sita Bhaumik’s mind that contemporary famines are manmade.
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15 Nov 11
Food fight: Frank Tjepkema
Design News
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Food Design
Product designer Frank Tjepkema believes that as a consumer, you are responsible for the way the food you eat is produced.
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15 Nov 11
Oog on Droog
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Craft
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Design Thinking
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Product Design
Focusing on Droog's eco explorations proves that the Dutch design collective's fountain of good ideas never runs dry.
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1 Aug 06
New media marvels
Opinion
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Interaction Design
Getting animated about this year's new media superheroes is CNMA judge and editor of the UK's Creative Review magazine, Patrick Burgoyne.
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1 May 06
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