Design Week
Sustainability in focus supplement
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Counting the digits
Sustainability in focus supplement
Sustainability is growing in importance within the design world, in terms of digital design as much as any other discipline. Nat Hunter of Airside looks at the footprints left by the giants of the digital world
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Designers are getting Greener
Sustainability in focus supplement
Advances in a number of fields have increased the ways in which designers can introduce caring for the environment into their work. Lee Bazalgette of Factory Design explores the growing relationship between design and sustainability and considers what the future holds in store
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Pressing issues
Sustainability in focus supplement
Designers are increasingly realising the importance of how they use paper and specify print in the drive towards sustainable graphic design. Fiona Sibley looks at how developments in paper recycling and print technology can bring about change
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Service charge
Sustainability in focus supplement
If I had to pick two subjects guaranteed to make a stranger’s eyes glaze over, I probably couldn’t do better than pick ‘service design’ and ‘sustainability’ – try this at your next dinner party. How terribly middle class to ‘care’ about the environment and social good. Yet if, as is predicted, two billion Chinese and Indian consumers join the global middle class by 2030, we will all have to develop a healthy attitude to these contestable topics or else face the consequences.
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Sustainability in focus
Sustainability in focus supplement
Foreword
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Sustainable discovery
Sustainability in focus supplement
As an increasing number of exhibition organisers turn to designers who can follow sustainable principles, how difficult is this in practise and is there a sufficient supply chain in place? asks Emily Pacey
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Sustainable packaging: What’s next?
Sustainability in focus supplement
Moves towards sustainable packaging designs are welcome, but more can still be done. Chris Sherwin, sustainability consultant at Dragon Rouge, says designers must not ignore their responsibilities
