Designing for Re-Use: The Life of Consumer Packaging
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| Rating | : | 4.53 (505 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1844074889 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-04-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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. Tom Fisher is Professor of Art and Design at Nottingham Trent University. Janet Shipton is Design and Development Director at Chesapeake Corporation
The re-use of packaging could have a significant effect on the quantity of material that enters the waste stream and the energy and consequently carbon that is expended in its production - every re-used item is another item not purchased. The book shows that by understanding the ways in which actions of this sort fit with everyday life, opportunities may be identified to enhance the potential for re-use through packaging design. Other factors are more obviously social - for instance the effects on re-use of different consumer orientations. The authors demonstrate that we do re-use - but usually despite, rather than because of, the actions of government and designers. The authors itemize the factors that affect the re-use of packaging, and analyse the home as a system in which objects are processed. Packaging is ephemeral - its purpose is to b
Design for Re-Use student I would recommend this book for all sorts of businesses that sell products. This book gets people thinking about our lifestyle and how the things we buy and what they come in determine and affect our life. Collaborative work is the best work and the way the author ended the book with talking about how businesses and consumers alike can contribute to making packages is a great idea to me. Once we have an idea, especially like this one we can only
The book will also appeal to consumers interested in reducing their own carbon footprint and wanting to live in a more sustainable way- the book is a great advocate for sponsoring spontaneous creativity and encourages people to question if they should really be throwing away their waste packaging and thinking about secondary applications within their homes.' Jim Collingham, The Design Journal. this is not another Blue Peter annual showing how to live the Good Life; rather, it is a worthy attempt at understanding how consumers relate to packaging in the privacy of their homes.'-Charles Newman, Resource Magazine'Designing for Re-use will appeal to a variety of users including those studying pro