Waste Age: What can design do? Exhibition Catalogue

We are living in the age of waste. Design has helped create our throwaway culture – can design help us leave it behind?

A new generation of designers is rethinking our relationship to everyday things. From fashion to packaging, electronics to construction, finding the lost value in our trash and imagining a future of organic materials could point the way out of the waste age

This book showcases some of the visionary designers who are reinventing our relationship with waste, including Formafantasma, Stella McCartney, Lacaton & Vassal, Atelier Luma, Rotor, Fernando Laposse, Bethany Williams, Phoebe English and Natsai Audrey Chieza

The publisher has made efforts to reduce wastage and the environmental impact of producing this book. It was printed by the world's first CarbonNeutral© printer, using vegetable-based inks, recycled stock for the cover and sustainable paper sources for the text. Printing in the UK means that we were able to minimise transport and we have avoided shrinkwrapping, lamination and other plastic-heavy production processes.

Edited by Justin McGuirk
Designed by Spin and Chris Benfield