Posts Tagged ‘product design’

Frog Celebrates 40 Years with China Events (Sept 24 – 27)

Thursday, September 17, 2009 2:10 Comments Off

In the past 40 years, our work include: Apple Macintosh computer, Sony’s Trinitron television, Lufthansa’s brand and fleet image, Disney’s Cruise Lines and Consumer Electronics, and Louis Vuitton’s brand aesthetic etc.In honor of frog’s 40 year anniversary, we will host a series of programs in China to celebrate! In honor of frog’s 40 year anniversary, [...]

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China’s Addition to Everything Disposal and Neatly Wrapped

Monday, May 11, 2009 0:45 Comments Off

If you have spent any time in China, and have taken a moment to look around, the fact that there is a lot of prepackage waste in China. It was the source of inspiration for my recent post, Wasting Away on China’s Airlines, and the author of Garbage is piling up in world of disposables [...]

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Asia Eco-Design Electronics Site From Center for Sustainable Design

Friday, April 10, 2009 11:11 Comments Off

While doing some research for my latest article in Supply Chain Asia, I came across the aede project site of the Center for Sustainable Design. The Asia Eco-Design Electronics (AEDE) project supports electronics companies in Asia that are required to meet increasingly stringent legal and customer requirements related to environmental and social issues from the [...]

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Frog’s Green Gadgets

Wednesday, April 8, 2009 9:58 Comments Off

for me, one of the best things about following my interest in sustainability is finding products that truly are innovative, are developed with a sustainable mindset, and are not citchy… as can all too often be found on a lot of consumer driven “sustainability” sites. So, when I was passed Frog’s Green Gadgets file I [...]

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Approaching Sustainability

Monday, March 23, 2009 3:04 Comments Off

For the March edition of Supply Chain Asia, I was asked to write a piece on the relationship between sustainability and supply chain. Approaching Sustainability, is the first in a series that I will be working on, and my goal was pretty simple. Lay a foundation for understanding that sustainability is a topic that is [...]

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The Importance of Design, and Designers, to Sustainability

Sunday, February 1, 2009 10:31 Comments Off

While the focus of sustainability is closely linked to “energy usage” and waste, the conversation on the role of design & designers has yet to take center stage. The recent article Design is an Avocado: The Layers of Green Design by Brian Dougherty (an excerpt from his recent book Green Graphic Design) though does a [...]

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Packaging Changes Coming in China

Monday, September 1, 2008 2:15 Comments Off

Just in time for mooncake season comes news that China is about to do something about its propensity to overpackage everything. For the first time in Chinese legislation, packaging is required to be designed in a simple style in order to prevent resource wastage and environmental pollution. This is part of the draft circular economy [...]

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