SUSTAINABLE DESIGNING
Many cities in America do not offer easy or efficient ways to drop off recycling or offer recycling services at all, disregarding a simple way we can help the environment. The arts are also suffering, as they are continually put on the back-burner of education, with some schools cutting them completely. This harms students’ creativity and takes away a skill set, hobby, or future job that many kids would benefit from. With this project, we were asked to "design with a social responsibility" and create a company, store, or something of that matter that will help out our society.
My idea was to create a one-stop shop for both issues - a place for residents to drop off their recycling that doubles as a sustainable craft studio. Our employees will sort through the recycled items to find what we’d like to keep for our art projects each month and recycle the rest. We will hold monthly craft studio events where kids (and whoever wants to) can come and create art using completely recycled, and therefore, sustainable materials. Our goal is to address the lack of recycling that occurs in many communities, in addition to promoting creativity and sustainability to the next generation.
An artifact is "an object made by a human being" (art), as well as "the remains of an object" (recycling) - both definitions tying in nicely to my company, which is how it got its name! When creating the informational brochure and posters, I stylistically wanted them to have a homemade feel to them. I used a cardboard texture, a grid line pattern, and drew many elements to get that crafty feeling across.
This idea was inspired by my mom and dad, two people who were not only avid recyclers and promoters of sustainability in all aspects, but also people who continually fueled my very own creativity that led me here today. Growing up, they always saved me little jars, pieces of cardboard - you name it - to make projects with. I would take these items that some would call trash and be so excited because I saw that jar becoming a snow globe, or that cardboard turning into a mini dog house. You can find inspiration everywhere, you just have to get creative (and why not be sustainable as you do it)?!
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