Rethinking Plastics in Product Design
a guide to sustainable transitions for the environmental emergency
$91.01
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
30 April 2025
Summary
Rethinking Plastics: A Designer’s Guide to Sustainable Alternatives
This book addresses the urgent need to reduce our use of virgin fossil plastics. It provides a framework for designers and manufacturers to re-evaluate their use of plastics and promotes the use of alternative materials with lower environmental impacts.
Lightweight, strong, and cheap plastics are often the obvious choice when designing consumer durables, but their use is resulting in devasta…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781350449121 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1350449121 |
| Author: | Geoff Isaac |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | Bloomsbury Visual Arts |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 30 April 2025 |
| Weight: | 740g |
| Dimensions: | 232mm x 154mm x 22mm |
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About The Author
Geoff Isaac
Geoff Isaac is a casual academic at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia, where he completed his PhD on the history of the plastic chair and designing for the environmental emergency. He has written papers for journals such as Plastiquarian, Journal of Applied Psychology and Fusion Journal, and his book, Featherston, on the life and work of the industrial designer Grant Featherston, was published in 2017.
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