今年,两个主导主题作品展示是:时尚小巧的客厅和环保可回收材料。
在环保产品展会上,一款轻松有趣和时尚的设计是山姆惠滕的眼镜架。使用可回收的塑料,或压麻制成。麻帧是由植物纤维制成,开创先河,是设计的一个经典之作。
产品设计师和咖啡师考特尼·布伦南结合他的两个角色来创建一个新的咖啡机,叫做平衡。这是想要“把咖啡师品质的咖啡进入家庭,”的布伦南-的爱丁堡龙设计的帅气玩意儿,当你将咖啡充满咖啡室和并将水到如顶部螺丝冲泡室,然后,旋转它的盖子,开始酿造工艺并在四分钟之内创造一杯新鲜制作咖啡。该方法的简单性意味着,每个杯子制作出的咖啡都是——完全完美。
Charles Parford-Plant, from London's Kingston University, was among the students who looked at how to produce everyday items in a more organic and less wasteful way. His “Re-Writable” designs consist of layered cardboard that can be used to house hard-drives and as an alternative to plastic in USB sticks, routers and radios. The designs have a pleasing, retro feel and eschew screws or glue—instead relying on rubber bands for easy disassembly. As we make more and more electronic purchases and keep them for shorter periods of time than before, cutting out plastic waste should be an attractive proposal for manufacturers.