A NEW CHALLENGE JUST STARTED!
Submissions are now open for the latest Core77 One Hour Design Challenge! The prize for this one is a new Apple iPod Nano, so break out those Prismacolors, fire up the tablet, and have have at it! Here are the vitals: CORE77 COMPETITION One Hour Design Challenge v1.1 Hosted by: ip_wirelessly
Doors Open: Monday, October 1st 9 AM PST (4 GMT)
Last Call: Monday, October 8th 1 PM PST (8 GMT)
THEME: Bag the Plastic Bag
BRIEF: "No Bag!" Picking up on the themes of our previous 1HDC, we call on designers to come up with innovative ways to get rid of the ubiquitous plastic bag. 60,000 of these things are used every 5 seconds in the U.S. alone (that totals, if you can believe it, 43 million bags used during your one hour of design challenge. World-wide, the number of plastic bags used each year is a staggering 4,000,000,000,000). Better get to it.
PRIZE: One Apple iPod Nano (Winner picks the color!)
JURY: Winner will be selected by the Core77 Admin. Community discussion is encouraged to help ensure the best design wins.
thanks to ip_wirelessly for settin' this up! >>>CLICK TO ENTER YOUR SUBMISSION
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While the plastic bag is a significant component of the problem, the problem itself is to do with our habitual nature. Do you want to get rid of plastic bags? Then stop making them and people will soon start using canvas bags, cardboard boxes and cloth sacks.
There is a supermarket here in Wellington, NZ, which sells reusable shopping bags at each checkout and they actively promote their use. Those plastic customer separators that you put on the conveyer belt at checkout have messages such as "Did you remember to bring your reusable shopping bag?".
So perhaps what we need to design is a campaign rather than another product.