I have been working on an Orangebox live brief “Design an innovative upholstery cloth for the Sully stool that utilises fabric off cuts as its main resource”. Orangebox produce approximately a tonne of waste material weekly during their manufacturing process. The waste we were given to work with consisted of 47 different high value substrates.
According to Circular fibres initiative 2015, the greenhouse gas emissions from the production of textiles globally totalled 1.2 billion tonnes of CO2, more than all international flights and maritime shipping combined (The Guardian, 2019). It is no wonder that organisations like Ellen McArthur foundation, Stella McCartney, Faber Futures and Atelier Lumer are leading the way in developing new opportunities for sustainable manufacturing. This is something that will be my focus within the future.
As a designer my role is to add value to the remnants, using a variety of processes and techniques. Throughout the project I constantly experimented and developed ideas, which lead me to two outcomes. My first design came about by layering the waste material together and fixing it in place using bond-a-web. I then covered the remnants with an end roll of fabric. On to this I placed grey board shapes, which when heat pressed embossed the image into my fabric. My second design was a sculptural piece created by using multiples of squares, this basic shape has numerous possibilities. I chose this shape because of its simplicity, making it easy to program the Gerber Cutters which would save on time and extra costs within Orangebox.
Bibliography
The Guardian (2019) Is fast fashion giving wat to the sustainable wardrobe.
Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/dec/29/fast-fashion-giving-way-sustainable-...
(Accessed: 16th March 2019).
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