Rethinking Plastics in Product Design: A Guide to Sustainable Transitions for the Environmental Emergency
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Rethinking Plastics in Product Design: A Guide to Sustainable Transitions for the Environmental Emergency is a practical guide to using plastics more responsibly, for industrial design students, product designers, and manufacturers. Written by Geoff Isaac and published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2024, the 304-page English-language book traces the historical use of plastics and sets out a framework for reducing reliance on virgin fossil plastics. It discusses recycled plastics and bioplastics, and the mechanical and aesthetic challenges of working with them.
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Chapters use more than sixty chairs made from renewable plastics as case studies, since chairs are often used to showcase new materials. Interviews with designers and industry figures such as Philippe Starck, Barber Osgerby, Konstantin Grcic, Bertjan Pot, and Karim Rashid illustrate how these materials are applied in real projects. For coursework, the book helps students make informed material choices and justify them in studio. On a university reading list, it links sustainability theory with the practical constraints of production, and it supports research on chairs and materials.
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