Researchers from the School of Arts, Design and Architecture and the School of Chemical Technology at Helsinki’s Aalto University have won the top H&M Global Change Award for a recycling technique that converts waste-cotton into new textiles. The conversion of the existing ‘Ioncell-F process’ to enable the recycling of waste-cotton…
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Wael Seaiby’s Plag vessels are made from supermarket plastic bags
University of Edinburgh graduate Wael Seaiby has designed a collection of vessels to tackle problem of the one million plastic bags used globally every minute, 93{ff546b69e23b1524d799f96c6ba7a638e1f677053b0a2a1568b05315fd5f8fc7} of which end up in landfill. The bowls and vases are made in heated moulds from a fine plastic powder Wael makes by heating…
out and about :: new designers one year on
After the fabulously talented top ten from New Designers last week, here are my top three from New Designers One Year On. This is the section of the show that focuses on designers who either graduated a year ago, or have been in business for less than a year. Curated…