More Sustainable Packaging

From what I've seen sustainable and eco product design started out as a fad but a lot of companies are taking the sustainable packaging route using recycled materials and biodegradable materials. Here are a few examples.

LEE Paper Bags

All of the bag can be used again and then be recycled.

Gotta Moo Packaging

They use  sugarcane bagasse pulp paper, coated with sugarcane lignin and printed using vegetable-based inks. This helps to reduce emissions.

Mommy Francis

Instead of using pvc for the plastic cup lids they use a biodegradable material that looks like plastic.

Ethics in design (and who you won’t work with) - Post by Samuel Kallagher

http://www.davidairey.com/ethics-in-design/ Interesting article on design ethics and views from designers young and old on companies/organizations that they wouldn't do design work for based on their own moral beliefs. Very interesting to see designers views and also the companies they feel are morally wrong, definitely worth a quick read.

"ethics for a starving designer" - Post by Samuel Kallagher

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E37z9vo6_G4 Great link here for a video on youtube called "ethics for the starving designer". A short animation from a young designer such as ourselves that talks about values, ethics and what he feels he can do to abide what it good/right. short yet interesting, worth a view.

How ethical are your design practices? - Post by Samuel Kallagher

http://www.davidairey.com/how-ethical-are-your-design-practices/ A Short yet interesting article that questions young designers such as ourselves about their design ethics, would you design for a company that goes against your own moral standards?, do we have to put ethics aside in order to progress further in our design careers? some quite interesting points and views are raised in this short article, worth a quick read.

Ethics in Graphic Design Thesis - Eileen MacAvery Kane

i emailed Eileen MacAvery Kane from http://www.ethicsingraphicdesign.org as she's written a thesis on Ethics
 in
 Graphic 
Design she replied and it's a very informative document that explains and lays out all the sides of ethics within the industry that we the student going into the aforementioned will need to know and consider "This 
thesis 
suggests 
that 
we 
can
 use 
three 
different 
lenses 
to
 explore 
and
 discuss
 ethics
 in
 graphic 
design 
curriculum 1)
legalities— the
 rules 
that 
govern 
the
 profession 
including
copyright 
law, 
piracy, 
plagiarism,
 fair
use,
and 
photo
 manipulation 
2)
integrity—principles 
of 
right
 conduct 
including
 spec
work,
 crowd
 sourcing,
 and
 responsibility 
to 
clients 
and
 contracts 
3)
morality— the 
general
 nature 
of
 moral
 choices 
to
 be 
made 
by
 a 
person
 including 
sustainability, 
social
 awareness,
 and
 cultural 
influence." she goes on to devote a small chapter to each of these points to explain them in greater detail and to inform the reader of the problems we might encounter here's a link to a pdf download of the thesis http://www.mediafire.com/view/?s7cqat1nbxjqjk4



More from Benetton

The contraversial 1996 ad campaign using convicted criminals as models. Benetton photographed the inmates in their scrubs in the aim of making social commentary about the death penalty. Everybody is human don't kill etc. Mainly; Benetton is Ethical.

'Benetton's response is simple: There was no fraud. And there is no attempt to sell sweaters. ' (http://articles.latimes.com/2000/feb/24/news/mn-2088)

They may not have tried to sell sweaters, but they tried to sell a brand. Frankly, I don't find it that impressive anyway. 

In relation to post: A Graphic Designers Personal Ethics Question

“Regarding cigarettes, I don’t think the design of a cigarette pack encourages people to smoke. It only encourages people who already smoke to buy different cigarette brands." Airey then refers to alcohol packaging. “Alcohol causes much more problems than cigarettes, and I have designed lots of alcohol packaging. Where do you draw the line?”

It is accepted that most people in the UK drink alcohol, however, there is more of a stigma attached to smoking today. Unlike smoking, alcohol advertising is still allowed. Some adverts might just make you fancy a drink you weren't going to have. I wonder if alcohol advertising was banned, could the packaging alone persuade you to have a drink? Or as Airey suggests about cigarettes, would they just make you chose a certain brand. Some spirit companies make the bottle almost like a collectors item.