Friday Favourites
Tipsy glasses, illustrated leaves, enlightened souls and more on our Friday Favourites.
In: Advertising, Art, Brand communications, Food and Drink, Ooh that's nice, Product design, Structural design, Sustainability · Tags: Environment, Glassware, Illustration, Photography, Plant for the Planet, Street art
A love story in milk
This is a lovely short film created by Catsnake for a Friends of the Earth campaign. It’s sweet and cute but with a cruel twist at the end!
In: Brand communications, Film & Animation, Ooh that's nice, Sustainability · Tags: Environment, Friends of the Earth
KFC wins Gold at the Design Effectiveness Awards
There are a few sore heads around today after a very successful evening at the DBA Design Effectiveness Awards last night. Our Communications team were delighted by the Gold Award in the Point of Sale category, for our KFC menu boards.
In: Brand communications, News, Retail, Sustainability, What are we up to? · Tags: Awards, BGCI, DBA, Design Effectiveness, Education, Environment, KFC
Sensorial Innovation article in New Design
For the New Year issue of New Design magazine themed around Future & Innovation, our 3D Design Director, Laurent Robin-Prevallee discussed how companies can use the senses to stand out from the opposition.
In: Digital, Innovation, News, Product design, Sustainability, Technology, Uncategorized · Tags: 3D Branding, Environment
Green On My Sleeve
Did you cycle to work this morning? Sorted out your recycling last night? As brand designers sustainability is another box on the wish list we need – and want – to tick off. The interesting thing is that the whole subject has shifted from I-think-green-and-I-don’t-care-about-status to Green-is-the-new-status. The Stylist magazine is reporting that researcher now say [...]
In: Innovation, Retail, Sustainability, Viewpoints · Tags: Environment, Trends
One tent too many
It’s festival season. It’s camping season. In a world where everything can be bought, the search seems to be for the unique and the intimate, the marginal and the magical. Come on, let’s go camping!
In: Fashion, Luxury, Retail, Viewpoints · Tags: Camping, Environment
10:10 Downing Street
Hats off to 10:10 for their latest and possibly highest profile signing to-date to the 10:10 campaign… Not just 10 Downing Street (who had already signed up), but the whole of central UK government making a pledge to reduce their carbon emissions by 10% in 2010. From their own press release, ” A 10% cut [...]
In: Innovation, Sustainability, Viewpoints · Tags: Carbon Reduction, Environment, UK election
'Renewable packaging' raises questions on recycling
Snyder’s of Hanover have produced, in association with Clear Lam Packaging, a new range of packaging for their organic pretzel range. Made from 90% plant based material, the Nature Works ‘Ingeo’ polylactic acid (PLA) bag is said to have the appropriate properties to make it look and feel like a conventional bag. Driven by Project [...]
In: Innovation, Structural design, Sustainability · Tags: Environment, Organic, Packaging, Recycling, Snyder's
Puma's Clever Little alternative to shoe boxes
Fuseproject has announced the release of Puma’s Clever Little Bag to replace the brand’s shoeboxes, kicking off Puma’s next phase in its sustainability program. The bag uses 65% less cardboard than the typical shoebox. Created out of non-woven mesh, the recyclable material requires less work and creates less waste. It has no laminated printing and [...]
In: Fashion, Innovation, Structural design, Sustainability · Tags: Environment, Puma
UPS goes the extra mile for the environment
My favourite environmental fact of the day. If transporting items from A to B for clients sits at the heart of a business model, whilst working out the most sustainable options for doing this in the long-term, it’s still possible to use existing infrastructure as intelligently as possible as UPS have shown in the US [...]
In: Sustainability, Technology · Tags: Environment, UPS
