Archive for July 2008

Scotland’s Innovative Craft group have organised an exhibition of sustainable products with One Eco Home for the duration of the Edinburgh Festival. They are showing the Grass cabinet as an example of sustainable furniture design.

Bamboo and straw domestic cabinet

If you’ll be in Edinburgh in August or September, get along to the Dovecot Centre on Infirmary Street. Open 4th August to 27th September, Mon-Sat 11am-6pm.

You can now view Pli’s current range on the Architonic website: this is one of the best international resources for architects and designers to search and specify products for your projects.

Here’s how Architonic describes itself…

About

Even for large firms of architects it is difficult to keep track of the current wealth of materials, furnishings and fittings on the market, not to mention the constant flow of new designs. For private property owners and design enthusiasts it is all the more difficult.
Architonic provides the solution to this problem by constantly monitoring the worldwide market with its team of architects and designers, making it quick and easy for you to find the products selected by the team.

Our aim: the best products, materials, designs and concepts for the best in architecture – always up to date, impartial, selective.
The result: more than 45,000 products from 4,500 designers and 1,400 manufacturers. Every single month more than 230,000 people visit the Architonic site, of whom 68% are architects, interior architects, and planners. About 60% of the visitors come from Europe, 20% from the USA and 20% from Asia and the Middle East.

Architonic AG, which has its head office in Zurich is an internationally-based network consisting of architects, designers, IT experts and marketing professionals. With its contents and concepts Architonic focuses on the generation and distribution of knowledge and information among architects, designers, research and industry.

This week we welcome Tim Maughan to the team. Tim recently finished studying Nottingham University where he completed his product design and manufacture degree. He is working with Pli for the next few weeks, looking into sustainable packaging options and packaging life cycles for our products.

We chose Tim for this project due to his experience in sustainable packaging. He developed a strong concept for a sustainable Heinz Ketchup bottle. Have a look at that and some more of his work on his Coroflot portfolio page