TED1- Design to Minimise Waste

1- Design to Minimise Waste
  
  I think artists and designers who make creations need to care about how they can design to minimise waste in process of design. Because they have responsibility for making creation.
  I would like to think about what kind of methods I can use to minimise waste in my creation through researching creations, designers, and artists related to design to minimise waste.





 Origami Design to Minimise Waste 

  Origami is one of the traditional Japanese hand-made paper-crafts. How to make Origami is very simple. We use only square papers, and fold the paper several times to make complicated structure. There are a significant number of structures we can get using Origami, such as boxes, animals, flowers, and so on.

  Recently, the method of Origami has not only received a fair amount of attention as a functional design mean from design industry, but Origami has been also regarded as a sustainable method, because what we need is only folding materials without creating any waste. I will look at some amazing creations using Origami method.





・PLEAT FARM ( http://www.pleatfarm.com)

PLEAT FARM is an informational and inspirational online platform – a design pasture showcasing the latest in apparel, textiles, architecture, furniture, paper art and product design, with a focus on innovative material applications such as folding, bending and knotting. 

This is Christophe Guberan's creation. He made a printer to design act of folding, which is called "Hydro- Fold inkjet printer". This printer prints out fold line of water on a paper, and then we fold the paper following the fold line by water. Finally, an unexpected beautiful 3- dimensional shape come out.

(Hydro- Fold inkjet printer, Guberan. C, 2012)

   

Computer automatically calculates to fold a variety of forms, and then sends the data to the printer.

・ISSEY MIYAKE (http://www.isseymiyake.com)

ISSEY MIYAKE has used Origami method in his creations since 1980's. PLEATS PLEATS, and BAO BAO are very famous examples of Origami method. 

Although ISSEY MIYAKE is famous for fashion design, this is not a garment, not even fabric. This is a LED light made from plastic bottles, which is called "IN-EI". This right is a series of collaboration products with Artemide, an Italian lighting brand. 

(IN-EI, ISSEY MIYAKE, 2013)

 When we do not use the light, we can put it away easily, and also we can save space.
"Design which lives in life", ISSEY MIYAKE's design concept is reflected in this light.

・Elisa Strozyk (http://www.elisastrozyk.de)

She is a German designer. She created a blanket made of wood.

The surface of wood for making blanket is used special processing to bend regularly.

The blankets are among a larger Accordion Collection, which also include wood pleated into lighting fixtures and origami cabinets.

(WOODEN TEXTILES, Strozyk, E.)

References

・Guberan, C. (2012) Hydro- Fold inkjet printer. [Internet]. Available from :<http://www.pleatfarm.com/2012/04/16/hydro-fold-by-christophe-guberan/> [Accessed 14 October 2013].

・ISSEY MIYAKE (2013) IN-EI. [Internet]. Available from :<http://www.isseymiyake.com/brand/in-ei_issey_miyake.html>  [Accessed 14 October 2013].

・Jackson, P (2011) Folding Techniques for Designers: From Sheet to Form. London: Laurence King Publishing.

・Strozyk, E. WOODEN TEXTILES. [Internet]. Available from :<http://www.elisastrozyk.de>  [Accessed 14 October 2013].