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Design Newspaper

Design Newspaper featuring great design, architecture, fashion, graphics and innovation from across the globe.

 

SeeTang Collection

SeeTang, an algae biopolymer, raises awareness about plastic polluted design departments like food packaging and fashion. SeeTang instant dish packaging is cooked alongside food ingredients as the biomaterial is 100 percent dissolvable in water, vegan and edible. The outer packaging can either be recycled by the consumer or biodegraded. SeeTang Fashion solely uses extracted dye from food leftovers, spices and dried flowers. The bags and jewellery are made from the same biopolymer as the instant dish and are 100 percent compostable.

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No Footprint House

The NFH is developed for serial production, based on a larger toolbox of prefabricated residential typologies. A first prototype was built for a European family in the southwest of Costa Rica. They chose a two-bedroom configuration with steel structure and pine wood finishes, which was shipped to its target location on one single truck. The building is designed around a central service core in order to optimize logistical efficiency regarding assembly, maintenance and usage. The project seeks for integral sustainability in terms of its economic, environmental, social and spatial performance.

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Rhita

Assembly and disassembly designed for sustainability cause. With an Innovative hinge structure system designed, 70 percent of parts were reduced, no glue or rivet for fixation, no sewing of the inner lining, that makes it easier to be repaired, and downsized 33 percent of freight volume, eventually, extend the suitcase life-cycle. All parts can be purchase individually, for customizing own suitcase, or parts replacement, no returning suitcase to repair center needed, saves time and reduce shipping carbon footprint.

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Green Caddy

The Revolutionary Self-Cleaning Mop Bucket is equipped with a unique structure and filter design that could require only 2.5 liters of water without changing or replacing. The design will enable users to use the same bucket of water to rinse and clean the mop with recycled clean water. Help the users to save time, effort, money, and water resources while making the home-cleaning tasks much easier.

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Carbon Dashboard

Carbon dashboard is an application that visualizes personal carbon emissions data. The app uses algorithms to calculate users' daily carbon emissions, based on their personal consumption behavior and daily exercise routes, enabling them to gain a more accurate understanding of the high-carbon behavior in their lives and to control it. It changes the user's high carbon consumption behavior by visualizing their carbon emissions, giving them a better visualization of their carbon emissions and a greater willingness to reduce them in order to protect the environment.

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Fresh

Based on the waste of food caused by over buying and leaving food in the refrigerator, the app fresh was designed. People can use it to scan shopping lists to get records of food purchases and add food to app. App will record the shelf life of food and distinguish the different shelf life of food in the refrigerator through green, yellow and red prompt boxes to remind to avoid wasting food. In addition, the app also provides weekly waste food reports and cumulative waste food statistics to reduce waste.

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