2024 / Eco Design / Sustainable: Work & Office Products / Professional

Redesign Design | Make the CUT

• Prizes
  Winner in ECO DESIGN/Sustainable: Work & Office Products
• Company
  Serious Products Lab / Dio Dio Collective, Cyprus
• Lead Designer
  Eva Korae
• Design Team
  Georgios Pitsillides, Konstantina Niina Achilleos, Tuomas Venäläinen
• Client
  Cyprus University of Technology
• Project Link
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• Other credit
  Photos By Pavlos Vrionides

In this corporate gift product line the design process was treated as an opportunity to explore sustainable modes of creation. A series of prototypes were made, each presenting a case study for practitioners of slow making and circular economy. Items made with reclaimed wood from modernist demolition sites, construction beam off-cuts and discarded wine barrels, find their way onto corporate desks. Each product, inspired by the university logo, triggers a new set of social commentary regarding aesthetics and perceptions of making, leading towards a practicitioners’ guide for sustainable making.