Title

TRASH POCKET

Concept

Small personal dust pin

Sustainability

To wear it means to be ecological. No wasted resources in production process.

Title

CLAVIRO
The Europe’s language keyboard

Concept

Comprises two items: A present, an EU 23-languages conversation guide (600-1000 words) in a single object. (R)-me bag is the packaging, a new concept of recycling the „single use” gift bag. The words are grouped thematically and the themes have a color & logo code. 

Sustainability

Made of biodegradable polymer disks printed on both sides.

Title

FOR YOUR H2O – FOR OUR WORLD
Present in form of a book with a water bottle

Concept

Access to water is a right that should be guaranteed for everyone. Our participation is not just about taking part in an international competition, but about our strong social commitment in declaring that design culture is
responsible for a series of actions and products. We need to reinvent "DESIGN", which must be
ethical, sustainable, recyclable, but above all, sensitive to our surrounding environment and
resources.
The design consists of a book/box divided into 3 sections:
- the first section is a photo report which, using one single slogan, bears witness to and narrates the
privations and precariousness of this resource, water, worldwide. The use of images transcends
written, religious and cultural messages, making for more direct observation and interpretation of
what surrounds us;
- the second section contains a number of pages of the book/box, cut to be an exact fit for the water
bottle;
- the third section is the water bottle itself, personalised with lettering that expresses a total ethical
conscience of problems relating to the environment and to this resource, water: “FOR YOUR
H2O FOR OUR WORLD”.

Sustainability

Concept and materials

Title

LEE / Light Emitting Europe
Desktop Light

Concept

LEE is a special gift, a desktop light specifically designed for the EESC, showing the environmental challenge Europe faces and bringing sustainability into practice.
LEE also tells a more poetic story about energy efficiency. The incorporated light dimmer enables you to actually dim the lights of Europe. This is an illustration of the fact that at an individual level we do have an influence on the larger scale. The micro level affects the macro level.
Image: Based on a composite image of the Earth at night by Craig Mayhew and Robert Simmon, NASA GSFC. Data courtesy Marc Imhoff of NASA GSFC and Christopher Elvidge of NOAA NGDC.

Sustainability

LEE has no packaging. The packaging is the product

Title

FORGET-ME-NOT
Gadget to help avoiding food waste

Concept

To waste food it's a waste of money, it's disrespectful towards people in need and on top of it hurts the planet as it takes an immense amount of energy just to get fresh products all the way to your fridge. Cultivation, pro-cessing, packaging, (cool) storing, transport,… all these steps are very energy consuming. Yet all this energy is completely wasted when food ends up untouched in the bin.
The 5-days-fresh execution is targeted to be used on bricks and bottles containing fresh juices and diary products, which usually need to be consumed within 5 days.

Sustainability

Eco materials, energy consumption awareness

Title

GREEN BAG

Concept

The general public has become more and more aware of how important it is to treat the world with care. The GREEN BAG makes it easy to separate trash to three different categories
of your own choice. They could for example be: Plastic, cans and bio-degradable. The GREEN BAG is in travelling size so it folds easily when empty or has little trash in it. It can be hanged inside a car or carried when hiking or walking. The GREEN BAG can be dismantled and washed. With every GREEN BAG comes a small brochure explaining how the GREEN BAG works together with facts about recycling.

Sustainability

Waste reduction, recycling

Title

A BIT OF EUROPE
Flower Gift

Concept

A bit for Europe is inspired by the traditional give-away of flowers bouquets…but cut flowers are not really sustainable in any way. (transport, energy consuming glass houses, etc). The pot made of European soil with biodegradable resin symbolizes the ground we all live in, which we need to take care of. The flower pot can be used as a storage pot or to plant the seeds coming along.

Sustainability

Eco materials, sustainability awareness raising

Title

WHAT-WATT
Power Consumption Meter

Concept

What-Watt is a power consumption meter that can monitor various house hold electrical appliances. The information it provides can be used to assess the energy efficiency of any given appliance. It can also be used to measure the phantom power (standby power) of an appliance such as a TV. The What-Watt is plugged in between the electrical appliance and the wall socket. It can measure instant power use (watt), average power use (watt/hours) or an accumulated reading (watt/hours). The user can then refer to the packaging/instruction fridge magnet to analyse the feedback. The packaging is designed to be educational and integrated with the product and not simply thrown away. The reverse side of the packaging has instructions and information printed on it. The packaging also has fridge magnets attached, so it can be placed on the fridge where it will encourage interaction.

Sustainability

What-Watt informs the user of his/her power consumption

Title

SolarU
Solar Battery Charger

Concept

SolarU is a solar battery charger. This concept was designed for simplicity. However it still features innovative use of sustainable design and materials and provides a product that encourages sustainable practices. SolarU has a solar panel that converts the suns energy into electrici-ty. It can be used to charge various AA rechargeable batteries. Many devices such as remote controls use AA batteries which could be rechargeable and charged through the suns energy. The packaging will feature the same sustainable qualities as the previous concept. The reverse side of the packaging has instructions and information printed on it. The packaging also has fridge magnets attached, so it can be placed on the fridge where it will encourage interaction.

Sustainability

As opposed to consuming power, the SolarU produces power. It educates the user about sustainable practices and encourages the use of rechargeable batteries. In 5 hours of full sun, can charge a standard 500 mAh rechargeable battery.

Title

SER / Structural Experimental Research

Concept

Motivated by the replacement of the light bulb though the EU and striving to meet ecological demands SER fosters the understanding of illumination. Combining structural awareness and the application of advanced OLED technology, SER's design represents aesthetically simplified technology: the structure is the material and the material is the light.

Sustainability

Energy harvesting, paper thin OLED printed plastic

Title

WOOD BAR

Concept

The wood bar is a conceptual product which shows the issues of our time in an artistic way raising awareness to real human needs. The wood bar is concerned with the current financial crisis and the need of the rising awareness for the nature. The issues of our time are visualized by the means of an iconic art object. Through its simplicity the wood bar is very sustainable and highly communicative.

Sustainability

The product is completely handmade in the highest quality by artisanal methods of woodworking only using natural materials in an ecological way. This means using FSC certified wood for the product, naturally tanned leather (without chemical techniques using chrome) as wrapping for packaging and even the cord for packaging is reusable and compostable.

Title

SEED LIGHT

Concept

The seed light is an object that uses a simple idea; it utilizes the energy within our body to create light. The
energy that we use to illuminate the activities of our bodies metaphorically with this object can come from our
same body. This object, like a seed, creates the consciousness of producing light from our own body.
The object is designed with the shape of a seed from which metaphorically new ideas and inspiration can rise

Sustainability

Ability to use excess (waste) heat from our bodies to source energy

Title

PANDORA
Cultivate your light

Concept

Pandora is a particular pot, with two functions in one: one is that of containing plants, like all other pots; the other one is more fun and less popular: in fact Pandora contains also your light. The two functions are correlated one to each other: growing your own plant you will grow your own light.

Sustainability

Living plants can produce electricity thanks to the photosynthesis process

Title

EGG-LAMP

Concept

Ambience table lamp and made of redundant egg packaging.
Extension of lifespan of a short term existence of egg-packaging instead of throwing it away.

The colour of the paint adjustable.

Sustainability

Product = used egg packaging cartons,
LED light low energy consumption

Title

PRETTY UGLY

Concept

“Pretty ugly” is a one-way cutlery made of pigskin. It is made out of sustainable material which is usually worthless in a commercial sense and therefore available for free. The cutlery is a social experiment crossing the frontier of human perception and moral concepts. It is
all about decontextualizing of pig skin, including aspects
of mass production and the throw-away mentality.
Furthermore, the skin experiences a second revival, increasing its value through aesthetic and practical dimensions.

Sustainability

Almost every part... The pigskin is worthless. Even if processed into leather it is only of minor quality.
In most cases it is thrown away eventually.
My goal was to find possibilities of recycling the pigskin and therefore re-integrate it into the product cycle.
Through the utilization of the pigskin and its increased quality, the complete animal body can be used.

Title

SYLCUP

Concept

Sylcup is a useful and reusable 2dl silicon cup. You can take it with you, it is easy to clean, and with Sylcup you don’t have to use the throwaway plastic cups, so you do not generate more waste.

Sustainability

The silicon cup sustains years, resists to the heat, and it is easy to clean.

Title

PPP - PAPER PULP PHONE

Concept

The paper pulp phone is the basic way to make a call, no display, no contracts and powered by cranking.

Sustainability

The entire phone is biodegradable

Title

SOLARIS

Concept

Design of the torch Solaris represents the progressive and modern technologies and highlights the renewable resources.

Sustainability

Solar energy

Title

DOCUMENT DESTROYER

Concept

We propose a new concept of document destroyer. Since this one, besides destroying documents without energy consumption some, promotes the recycling, for this has included a meter that tells you how many trees that are saved in case of recycling of paper destroyed.

Sustainability

No electricity

Title

Smell it, lick it, suck it, eat it!

Concept

Using a bit of sense of humour and materials as best as we can, but always keeping in mind really clear that we think about the actual situation. Because the best for the Earth is not to produce as much as we do.

Sustainability

Materials used for production will be eco-friendly (all materials are biodegradable except for polypropylene bag which is 100% recyclable)

Title

KUGELBLITZ
Lamp

Concept

"Kugelblitz" is not only a light source, it is more than that. Normally it hides its effective significance but when it's activated it shines intensively.
The corpus is round, the surface is matt. A clean shape of selected materials produces an expression of timelessness and elegance. Because of its reduced body it fits into any office.
It doesn't need a power source because its power is produced with human energy. When you pull the handle three times you will get light for 20 minutes.

No inconvenient cables, no power from a nuclear power plant and no unsustainable materials are its benefits.
"Kugelblitz" is made out off glas, wood and steel. It is powered by a spring which moves an small generator. The generator produces the power for six LEDs which are positioned on a ring inside the glas solid.

Sustainability

Environmental protection

Title

FUEGO
Solar Powered Lamp

Concept

Fuego was born in order to develop a net of new safe relationships among the users: it stands for aggregation, socialization, it is an object which stimulates people to spend time together, in a safe way, with no electrical consumption, talking about social topics. Fuego gets the energy from the sun and storage it into its battery. So at night it conveys the light.

Sustainability

Compostable and biodegradable materials