This document discusses sustainable product design. It provides examples of MP3 players and phones to show how design has changed over time. It emphasizes that designers should create products that are 98% recyclable and can be manufactured and assembled in a clean, efficient manner. The document also stresses that products should be designed for disassembly, recycling, and to use low impact, sustainable materials to reduce environmental impact and promote longer product lifetimes.

1. Product Design
Gareth Barham
[in-a-relationship (several)]

3. Product Design
our relationship with things

4. Examples of MP3 players
Apple iPod

6. Sustainable Design
what we could change in the
Design and Manufacture of Products
?

8. ECODESIGN IS GOOD DESIGN
98% recyclable

10. 98% of
products are
thrown away
within
6 months
source: Edwin
Datschefski &
United National
University

11. “Designing a product is designing a
relationship”.
Steve Rogers

13. iPhone 4 iPhone 5

14. “Our enormously productive economy…
demands that we make consumption
our way of life, that we convert
the buying and use of goods into
rituals, that we seek our spiritual
satisfaction, our ego satisfaction,
in consumption…we need things
consumed, burned up, replaced and
discarded at an ever accelerating rate”.
Story of Stuff, Full Version; How Things Work, About Stuff
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLBE5QAYXp8

15. BBC.co.uk/news: 21 September 2012
“People ignore
design that ignores
people”.
Frank Chimera

17. “There is little point designing physical
Durability into goods if consumers
Lack the desire to keep them”.
Jonathan Chapman

18. this means that the choices
designers make
can have long-term impacts

19. design for…. recycling/reuse
disassembly, servicing, upgrade, reduced material mix
image source: Hermann Miller

20. design for….
manufacture &
assembly
lean manufacturing, cleaner
production, servicing, upgrade,
image source: steelcase

21. design for….
disassembly
recycling, servicing, end-of-
life, upgrade, lean
manufacturing, cleaner
production, down-cycling, material
segregation,
image source: Panasonic

22. design for…. eco-packaging
natural, returnable, reusable, multifunction, biodegradable

23. design for…. low impact materials
recycled, recyclable, bio materials, compatibility,
compostable, renewable, sustainable
image source: inhabitat, Worn Again, Moscardino, Remarkable, Sony

24. design for…. durability
longevity, durability, desire
image source: dualit, kitchenaid