Chris Sherwin
3 Easy Concepts for Sustainable Packaging to Reduce Food Waste
Chemistry, Materials & Packaging / Packaging waste, especially plastics, is the sustainability issue of our time, driven by growing public and media attention. Yet just two years ago, we were talking about food waste and one overlapping yet unresolved question is the role that packaging must play in protecting and preserving food. - 2 years ago
First Things First: 4 Ways to Unearth Ideas for Sustainable Innovation
Product, Service & Design Innovation / Most Sustainable Brands readers will know that 22nd April is Earth Day, but did you also know that the 21st is World Creativity and Innovation Day? I’ve always been amazed at how little the sustainability community focuses on idea generation and creativity. - 2 years ago
From 'Save the Fish' to 'Hot Right Now': Waste-Saving 'Future Concepts' Born at SB '15 London
Product, Service & Design Innovation / The dust may have settled on Sustainable Brands ‘15 London, yet its impacts continue to ripple. Hannah Ritchie’s blog provided excellent coverage of our ‘Future Concepts’ workshop that invited attendees to innovate with us on the day. Yet the session was about more than just a clever process so we wanted to share the results with you, too.We believe that innovation is a crucial yet under-utilised strategy for responsible brand leaders, so our workshop aimed to push more brands along a sustainable innovation path, showing them that this is possible and beneficial. - 5 years ago
The Making of Fairphone 2 (or How to Design Products to Tell Sustainability Stories)
Product, Service & Design Innovation / “I want our new phone to be a storytelling product.” This was the exciting and daunting challenge laid down to us by Fairphone CEO Bas van Abel, just over a year ago, in the first briefing for their new ethical phone handset design. - 5 years ago
Crowdsourcing a Sustainable Packaging Strategy: Learning from Unilever's Sustainable Living Lab
Chemistry, Materials & Packaging / Companies crowdsourcing their sustainability strategies is a growing trend, and I was lucky enough to experience this first-hand last month, through a Unilever Sustainable Living Lab session, as a guest speaker discussing sustainable packaging design (interest declared: they’re a Seymourpowell cl - 7 years ago
Sustainable Packaging: A Call for Better Design
Chemistry, Materials & Packaging / One of the things I love about the Sustainable Brands community is its diverse mix of sustainability experts, designers, innovators and entrepreneurs coupled with brand and marketing specialists. It makes for a heady mix of often differing views on related sustainability challenges. - 7 years ago
Design Matters, for the Circular Economy
Product, Service & Design Innovation / A team from Seymourpowell, one of the UK’s most established design and innovation consultancies, were thrilled to spend an evening in the company of a select group of motivated Design & Technology teachers, at the recent Tunbridge Wells Teardown Lab led by the Ellen Macarthur Foundation. It proved a fascinating evening of new insight and practical hands-on learning. - 8 years ago