Some ECO Tablewear

Hello guys, is MTSK here and I am back.
Sorry for the looooong wait, especially to those regular readers! I know you are there, respect, appreciate it.
2009 is a very busy year for me, and it's all about the endless school works. I just finished a short essay about the detection of internal wave in ocean (who cares?) using Synthetic Aperture Radar on the Satellite. It may sounds pretty interesting to some of you, but it was an absolute nightmare for me. Now I am moving onto something more exciting. I am writing an essay for another module, about sustainable aquaculture. More journals, more reading ahead, YES!! But at least the topic for this one is about something I really interested in. On top of these essays, and most important of all, my final year dissertation. It is about using the abundance of different phytoplankton at different time of the year as an index to monitor eutrophication in coastal water. Hardcore.

OK, that's it for myself, is time for my contribution to YOU. Today I got you some nice little tablewares to accompany your meal. First of all, it is always nice to have some flowers on the table and a good vase make it prefect. These nice vases are designed by Tord Boontje, made with recycled bottle. Green stuffs, gotta love it!



Thankyou to the website re:modern for putting these stupid words on and ruin the picture (As if I can't tell it is a vase/glass). The good thing about it is that you can buy these nice vases on that website

Secondly, let's get natural and check out these bowls made with bamboo, which a very fast growing and strong vegetation, AND SUSTAINABLE. They are from a sustainable eco-ware company called Bambu, focusing on utilisation of bamboo, obviously.


All image from re:modern

Rodrigo Alonso Schramm

Who is Rodrigo Alonso Schramm? There is a exhaustive biography in this website. But basically, he is a guy who used to be graphic designer and now he is a product designer.

The main point here is not about who he is, but what he can do and how green and how eco-friendly that is. The 'Greenness' of his products are rather mediocre, so does the aesthetic of his designs. Nevertheless, there are some pretty clever ideas. Let's have a look.

Blightster

The technique of thermoforming commonly used to make a container that once opened its rejected as trash, now is the final product: the container and content at the same time. Blightster is a thermoformed lampshade that by simply attaching the electric connector found inside (does not require electrical installation), its transformed to a beautiful lighting piece, that may be used as a ceiling lamp as well as a table top one.

Blightsterlamp is a product which incorporates the product packaging in the final design of the product, reducing waste to a minimum - and still looking cool to boot.
A simple technique that converts this piece into a low cost decorative object.

N+EW light

N+EW (No More Electronic Waste) light. Lamp produced by rotomolding, in a mix of low density plastic with crushed electronic waste plastic. This process shapes the diffuser molded in an also recycled iron matrix. Its base is produced with smelted aluminum of beer and drink tins amongst others.

N+EW Stool

Another product in the N+EW series. N+EW Stool-sculpture-instalation, produced with electronic waste, epoxic resin and melted aluminum. Produced in limited editions, or special orders. Each is a single, unique piece; non is equal in its filling. Able to personalize. Hand made.

2009

Enter the 2009!
I wish everyone a happy and fruitful year ahead!!
And I am pretty sure 2009 will be a greener year than 2008
See you around and stay tuned for my new post
MTSK

Nobody chair by Komplot

This is a Nobody chair designed by Denmark agency Komplot. Inspire by the use of covering cloth to protect the chair, Komplot gives a little twist be removing the chair under the cloth - Only cloth, no chair. But the coolest thing about this chair is the material it uses. NOBODY is produced in one single process by thermo pressing the polymer fibre - PET felt mat (without any kind of the frame).The production process neither demands any additives like glues or resins, nor any additional materials like screws or reinforcements. PET felt is 100% recyclable material produced mainly of used soda/water bottles. Perhaps when one you are fed up with this chair, you can just melt it and a can become a curtain

Python

Surfing in Komplot's website, I found another very cool design. Great design solves problem in an innovative yet simple way, this Python chair certainly is a good example. Hanging a jacket would be much more easiler if every conference rooms and restaurants this chair.

Oscar Ihermitte

Oscar Ihermitte is a current student at Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design major in product design . His main objective is to create connections between the product and user. Although Ihermitte does not label himself as a green or eco-friendly product designer, a lot of his designs involve recycle or sustainable concepts. And these concepts are executed in very clever ways.


X Days Project's 334 - 334 is a bench made with the free newspaper you can get one the street in London.


Edibowls - This is the experiment result of Ihermitte on new combinations of materials. The bowls are made from potato starch and sugar. Ideal for parties, they are 100% edible, 100% biodegradable.


Once upon a year's 394 Yellow Pages - Very clever reuse of yellow page in an alternative way.
All image from Oscar Ihermitte website