PRODUCT DESIGN IN THE SUSTAINABLE ERA

Sustainability is not a passing fashion, and people are constantlysearching for more information, products and innovations in this area.Designers, in turn, are responding with elegant, efficient, low-impactproducts that look towards a sustainable future. This book brings togetherover 180 such innovative and award-winning projects from over 20 countries,launched by leading design offices and companies worldwide, including IDEO,IBM, and New Deal Design.Featuring reusable products from water bottles and diapers to solar- andwind-powered goods; clocks that run by reacting with soil; air and waterpurifiers; coffins and urns for sustainable funerals; paper made fromelephant and sheep dung—as well as eco-friendly chocolates, bikinis,guitars, energy efficient appliances and much more—this is astate-of-the-art update on the sustainable revolution in product design.