A series of posters I designer about a year ago for Sustainability course, MA in Design&Environment.
Questioning sustainability-related matters I have created posters for existing initiatives and projects. The posters then were emailed to these organisations and offered them for free to use.
Copyright Inessa Demidova, 2012
A deer made out of book covers. Part of my final project for MA in Design and Environment at Goldsmiths, University of London.
The main aim was to explore the possibilities to overcome size limitations of hard covers of books which as I have found can be rather problematic to recycle.
Pete is the person who makes me say rubbish things, believes in socialism and doesn’t answer my texts. We had some very interesting conversations during last year
2012
Books are Not Waste by Inessa Demidova – Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building. During this project Inhabitat was one of my main inspiration sources and I am very pleased to be mentioned on it. Especially with such a nice attitude towards my project.
In our MA Design studio kitchen last year students painted one wall black but no one was really using it as a blackboard.
To alleviate stress and add more fun I decided to start a list of these annoying buzzwords which we hear all the time in design theory. I wrote first few words and then asked other MA Design students to contribute. The result reflects the array of themes we are bombarded in our courses as well as just chatting. Perfect internal joke.
Ever increasing amount of information, digitalisation of knowledge and inability of traditional containers of information – books to cope with modern speed of distribution of information turned my attention to the materiality of a book. What is it made from? And where do all the discarded books go? Is book recycling the best solution?I have found that thousands of books are being discarded every day and we need to find a solution to deal with that. The idea is to give books a new life books which can be recirculated can find new readers, books which are for some reason not going to be read should be repurposed. The rest of discarded books are safely returned to nature.The proposed system is aimed to connect existing bookcrossing and repurposing schemes and promote creativity in finding solutions to deal with changing role of books.
via Books are not waste.