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Marketing & Branding

New Naturalism

Nature doesn’t start over. It adapts, layer by layer. When marketing budgets are squeezed while consumer expectations rise, we argue for evolution over re-invention, and show how mimicking nature’s intelligence can guide smarter, more resilient marketing.

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Technology

Designing for Extinction

Some things are meant to last. Others are meant to disappear. As industries phase out wasteful systems, extinction becomes an innovation opportunity. Reshaping materials, ownership and circularity now define the next era.

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Food & Drink

Silo’s fermentation factory opens in London

Silo is marking its 10th anniversary with the opening of a Fermentation Factory in Hackney Wick, London.

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Design

Cultured Waste

As consumers tire of separating authentic sustainability claims from greenwashing, designers are using culture and heritage to cut through the noise.

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Food & Drink

Designer begins plastic knife and vase made to be eaten and decomposed by…

Altering the environmental impact of polystyrene, one of the world's most polluting plastics, designer Arnaud Tantet turned to mealworms and superworms and their ability to digest such material.

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Technology

Aizome introduces skincare range made from dye waste water

Japanese-German start up Aizome has teamed up with creative agency Serviceplan Innovation and New York-based design studio Workbyworks to create Wastecare, the world’s first skincare range made from waste water collected at its textile dyeing factory.

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Food & Drink

Five Future Home Scenarios for 2050

As the climate crisis escalates, our population ages, and the way we live is reshaped by new technologies and materials, our homes will look very different 30 years from now.

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Design

OnRepeat refills tackle beauty’s packaging problem

Refillable products have grown across the beauty and personal care sectors, but the distribution of refills can still result in more packaging and waste than necessary.

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Food & Drink

Starbucks’ re-usable cup programme minimises waste

Coffee chain Starbucks is aiming to reduce the amount of waste it creates with its new re-usable cup programme.