Designing with Waste Materials
Craft, Process and Beauty
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Taking a step towards changing the future of sustainable design, this book explores the innovative world of creative possibilities hidden within waste materials.
Designing with Waste Materials showcases how discarded, redundant, and surplus materials can transform into a new global design language.
Renowned designer and educator Dave Bramston outlines the art of understanding different materials and unlocking their untapped potential. He challenges the conventional notion of waste, suggesting that rejected materials are often misunderstood rather than inherently inappropriate.
Through engaging global case studies, striking images, and insightful examples, this book offers practical wisdom and inspiration. Experienced practitioners share their knowledge, demonstrating how waste materials can drive creativity and beauty. Designers are empowered to explore diverse material, and learn how experimental play and hands-on exploration can redefine design processes, allowing for unexpected and stunning results.
An essential companion to unleashing creativity, fostering responsibility, and breaking free from the ordinary by embracing the opportunities found by incorporating waste materials into design practice.
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Table of Contents
- Unseen potential: The advantage of a seemingly useless material
- Sourcing the unwanted: Where to find waste materials
- Creative advantages: Hidden opportunities within random materials
- Creative collisions: Combining abstract materials to find originality
- Unlimited selection: The diversity of materials available
- Steering the language: An alternative visual language
- Respecting the unfamiliar: Aligning curiosity with alternative practice
2: Low Carbon Practices: Tools and Time
- An alternative process: Understanding work practices with waste materials
- Low carbon tools: Simplistic tools for creativity
- Lost inspiration: Applying forgotten making traditions
- Keeping it local: A change of perception
- Less rush. More care: Individual connection
- Recognising lateral solutions: Something different
- Eradicating difficulties: Common denominators
3: Experimental Play: Getting Hands Dirty
- Making mistakes: Originality searching
- Material transformation: Revealing beauty
- Question everything: Changing contexts
- Unseen fabrics: Deconstruction assembly
- Hidden details: Shrouded features
- Unexpected: Identifying uniqueness
- Encouraging fantastical: Beyond boundaries
4: Craftsmanship: Care and Attention
- Inspiration in everything: Understanding creative suggestions
- Improbable: Developing the unbelievable
- Creating collections: Multiple uniqueness
- Beauty without resource: Simplicity works
- Continual deconstruction: Rework, rework, rework.
- Surprise and amaze: Unexpected outcomes
- Alternative working practice: Work differently.
5: Summary
Embrace waste materials: Don't waste materials
- Summary
- Summary overview
6: Twenty projects
- Acknowledgments
Product details
| Published | 21 Jan 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 192 |
| ISBN | 9781350467996 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Visual Arts |
| Illustrations | 108 colour figures |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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