Designing for the environment is a hugely under rated aspect of design. All products are now being environmentally friendly produced, and as technology evolves the knowledge of making goods, buildings, and sooner or later everything will involve some sort of green innovation. Designers are now trying to make more and more product's life cycle a circle and not linear like a point A to point B life cycle, in other words "Cradle to the Grave," as said in Cradle to Cradle. So that we can recycle and reuse products instead of having them go to waste.
Green Architecture- History
Green Design Furniture
Green Architecture- History
This very inspiring YouTube video is all about Green Design and features two notable architects who designed green innovative buildings for their time. All of the magnificent buildings in these video are green, environmentally friendly, and sustainable. Oscar Niemeyer was awarded the highest honor of architects in 1988, the Pritzker Prize. Jean Nouvel also won the Pritzker Prize in 2008.
Sustainable Design Features of the Melbourne
Convention Centre
Convention Centre
This is a video Melborne Convention Centre in Melman, Australia. 1st convention center to gain a 6 star Green Star Environmental rating. This building has upped the expectations of how they should be built. It actually has the first black water treatment system. It pulls rain and waste water n cleans it to reduce water usage and less water waste. The food they serve is even produced by all organic farmers.
Caring for Nature on Barrow Island - Chevron
Human Energy Stories
Just off the coaast of continental Alstralia there is a small island called Barrow Island. Chevron haas produced oil there for 40 years, but what makes this oil producing plant different from others is that they have been taking extra measures to make sure they do not hurt the environment or the wild life creatures on the island. Colin Beckett says it best, Chevron on Barrow island is a great example of how oil and gas companies can coincide without destroying our surroundings. One of the things they do is a very strict quanteen process of everyone and every piece of equiptment that leaves and especially comes Barrow Island.
Green Design Furniture
This website is a furniture company who makes their furniture with no harmless chemicals which make a low impact on the environment. Green manufacturing is how all these beds, cabinets, tables, desks, TV stands, etc. are produced. This means that each one of them is created by designs that, "endure structurally and artistically to last for generations, without harming either the environment or the people that make or use them." They also try to minimize waste by reusing and recycling as much of the wood as possible.
http://www.greendesigns.com/Green Graphic Design by Brian Dougherty
This is a must read book for designers who want to keep up with the design opportunities of the 21st century. This book breaks down the concept of green design. Brian Dougherty is a respected man throughout the industry who takes the designing profession and portrays the message of environmental green design to suppliers and consumers, but specifically on the graphic designing side. Eco-innovations change the way all stages of the design process is demonstrated. This book has case studies of certain green design elements. It explains and urges people how to incorporate a green practice in the design field.
You can buy this book for $16.47 on amazon.com. Here is the link:
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