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Published February 27, 2008 by Rebecca Matheson

Make it sustainable

Aside from having a fun name, Ezio Manzini is my new design hero… I don’t know if I’ve had one of these before, but we’ll give it a shot. I don’t mind Ray and Charles Eames either for their funky chair.

I found out about him today courtesy of my class on, ‘Contemporary Issues in Design’.

He blogs here

and better still, runs/contributes to (?) Sustainable Everyday

Blogging Design Social Justice Uni

Design Eames Ezio Manzini

Published February 19, 2008 by Rebecca Matheson

Trade – Heague & Moran

img_3117.jpgJess was right, I love these cushions. They are from an online store that has just recently kicked off it’s opening.

Heague & Moran

The materials/products come from Cambodia and a percentage of the profits go back into assisting the women who are involved.

I always find projects like this interesting. Part of me wonders where the profit margin sits. Such as, the 10% goes to the women, the excess profit goes to where? Surely all extra profit isn’t about perpetuating the business? Regardless, it is something.

What a brilliant thing it would be to run something that totally gives back into the people we are trying to help. But then, maybe it isn’t sustainable to run a business that way.

Perhaps I need a reminder that this isn’t all about the money, it is also about improving the quality of life for these women by even just simply providing them something to do that is productive, useful and values their talent.

Anyway, do go and check them out and buy something. I’m going to be having a bit of a further look myself.

We partner with several projects that counsel, train & equip women to overcome the circumstances of poverty, lack of education, sex trafficking & the burden of HIV by providing them with on going care & meaningful vocational training.

This training provides the women with a means of supporting their families, of exiting the sex industry, furthering their education & seeing a hope for their futures.

Through these partnerships it is our hope to support local women & their families, by facilitating opportunities for them to improve the standard of living for themselves, their families & the generations to come.

We strive to undertake all our business dealings with honesty, integrity & transparency.

10% of profits made from the sale of our partners products goes back to their projects to further their work.

Design Social Justice

cambodia Design fair trade homewares

Published February 16, 2008 by Rebecca Matheson

Design Police

Hahaha.

This is like the Panda Says No! for Designers.

Props to my uni tutors…. and I haven’t even gone back for the year yet.

Design

Design design police design rules typography

Published February 5, 2008 by Rebecca Matheson

Starred Posts: late Jan- early Feb

The list was getting far too big, so to inundate you with yet another blog post, check out some or even all of the links below.

These are things that over the past month have inspired me, made the think, laugh, made me go ‘Ah ha!’ and all other whatevers that have given a somewhat slightly stronger response than the other posts I’ve been reading. ie. They wound up in Google Starred section.

By some fluke it seems the girls have won this time, with some nice familiar regular ‘starred’ faces showing up, along with some new ones.

Working from late Jan through to Feb:

  • Handling Offenses – Lori Boucher, Confessions of a Pastors Wife
  • The Abbey – Christina Aitken, Sojourn
  • My Search for the Perfect Cafe [And what it taught me about blogging] – Darren Rowse, ProBlogger
  • Chip Kidd on Graphic Design – Poppy, Poppy Talk
  • Anti-foundationism – Joe Thorn, Pastor Joe Thorn
  • An Open Letter to Fred Phelps and Westbro Church – Katherine Coble, Just Another Pretty Farce
  • Friendship: The other side – Makeesha Fisher, Swinging From the Vine
  • Kuler Color Tool – Jessica, No Accounting for Taste
  • Purify your WordPress Experience – Heather, Oh My Stinkin Heck
  • Mettes Pottery {Home} – Holly Becker, Decor8
  • Prophetic Voices – Makeesha Fisher, Swinging From the Vine
  • Are we unbalanced? – Jessica Hagy, Indexed
  • Field Notes Set – Poppy, Poppy Talk
  • On Love & Risk – Joshua Longbrake, Love in the Key of Longbrake
  • Happiness – Samantha, Blonde Musings
  • Little Zoo – Jordan Ferney, Oh Happy Day
  • Television Q & A – Heather, Oh My Stinkin Heck
  • West Elm Newbies – Jordan Ferney, Oh Happy Day
  • The Bible – Katherine Coble, Just Another Pretty Farce
  • The Work of God’s Kingdom – Fred, Of First Importance
  • Kill Plastic Bags with Taxes, Look to Ireland – Emily, Inhabitat
  • Yes we can – Makeesha Fisher, Swinging From the Vine

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