Consumable Waste

The Reef collection consists of fashion and home accessories made from the web or remnants resulting from the production of the Tendril collection of 100% wool felt, die cut and hand assembled home and fashion accessories. The result is 0% wastage of material.

In the postindustrial era, huge manufacturing facilities have to make way for the flexible boutique factories. Die cutting is simple and can be done by hand tools. It allows the designer/manufacturer to produce only custom ordered pieces thereby eliminating the need for warehousing and the waste of time and material towards unsold goods. Wool is a renewable resource and is 100% recyclable. As both the cut out and the remnants are used, there is no wastage of material. Currently, the die cutter and the felt supplier are both from Ontario thus reducing the amount of fuel used in transportation and the carbon footprint.

Design by Lily Yung

In the postindustrial era, huge manufacturing facilities have to make way for the flexible boutique factories. Die cutting is simple and can be done by hand tools. It allows the designer/manufacturer to produce only custom ordered pieces thereby eliminating the need for warehousing and the waste of time and material towards unsold goods. Wool is a renewable resource and is 100% recyclable. As both the cut out and the remnants are used, there is no wastage of material. Currently, the die cutter and the felt supplier are both from Ontario thus reducing the amount of fuel used in transportation and the carbon footprint.

The edges of a piece of web of one die pattern are filled in with die cut pieces of a different color and held in place by machine sewing. As each piece of web is different, the edges are uneven and the result is a unique runner of organic shape.

Design by Lily Yung

File submission:

All submitted designs and proposals must be original works and exempt of any copyrights and any kind of obligation. For more information, contact us at consumablewaste@theideagroup.ca.

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What to submit?
As an individual or group, you may submit a maximum of three designs. Please note, if you are submitting more than one product, submit each product seperately in a different post.
For each work please supply the following:

1. “The Perfect Product” checklist—you must check at least one box in each section (Social, Environmental and Economic). Use this list as a reference, as this part will not be submitted to the blog. Once you have dowloaded the file and checked off the appropriate boxes, send it by email to consumablewaste@theideagroup.ca. It will be used as part of the exhibit.
2. A brief explanation of how your product relates to each of the checked boxes. This part will have to be included in your post with your images.
3. Up to three files (images or a composition of more images) of your project. Please use only .gif or .jpg files at 72 dpi with a maximum 100 kb for each file [image size max 600 (width) x 700 (height) pixels]. The original high-resolution image(s) will be requested later on.

Registration / Submission deadline: February 29, 2008

Finished entry deadline: May 01, 2008