We are proud to say that we are finishing our 2nd MaGiC Design Competition. This time we had our focus on reusing soft plastics to make practical and aesthetic fashion products.
We got some creative, green product ideas and we have our winners – it’s Zhang Jing Qiu and Tian Xue ZhuThey from University of Hong Kong. They have been invited this summer to join Greennovate and our MaGiC Experience. It’s a one-month working experience on sustainable design, where they will get to work with international design professionals taking part in a original green design project.
See the winning designs and keep following our posts to see what our interns will be working on in the summer. Maybe we will encourage you to take part in our new competition in the fall, so stay tuned!
If you’re searching for some ideas for the MaGiC Design Competition: Plastic round, check out the finalists from a different design competition from the design website Inhabitat. Their competition has already closed, but you can browse the finalist entries and cast your vote here. Don’t forget, our MaGiC Design Competition is running until June 20, so if you’re a Chinese design student and you haven’t signed up yet, enter here!
Our Design Interns Sport Aprons Later Given to Street Cooks!
After the 2009 MaGiC Design Competition, we invited a diverse, creative team of design students from Tongji University and Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts to join MaGiC Experience. Six interns from China and Italy spent several months of 2009/10 in our green office researching, designing, creating, and finally showcasing a host of fashionable, practical products made from old, non-recyclable event banners – “bringing back” materials that would have otherwise been wasted and discarded. Click here to check out their project and see what MaGiC Experience can be, or watch the video below!
MaGiC is starting to heat up again! We’ve just kicked off the MaGiC Design Competition – this time with a refined focus: using soft plastics to create practical and aesthetic fashion products. Last night our MaGiC team visited Shanghai’s Jiao Tong University, where we had a sustainability introduction workshop and invited students to join this year’s design competition!
MaGiC (Made GREEN in China) is back in action, and Plastiki– our inspiration for the program – is already halfway across the Pacific! After a successful pilot round in 2009, we are launching our second MaGiC Design Competition – this time with a refined focus: reusing soft plastics to make practical and aesthetic fashion products. Winners of the competition will be invited this summer to join MaGiC Experience, a one-month sustainable design experience working with international design professionals and becoming a part of an original green design project.
The competition will run from May 13 to June 15. Chinese students – click here to find out more and sign up!
If there were any party in the world worthy of celebrating Earth Day’s 40th anniversary (and more importantly, the roughly 4.6 billionth anniversary of our amazing planet), it would have been Greennovate’s DIY Earth Day event last night. Simply put, it was awesome.
The night started on a relatively calm note, with visitors checking out [...]
For the third year running, Greennovate will hold an exciting Earth Day Event on April 22nd! This year’s theme will be DIY – Do it Yourself. We’ve gathered some of Shanghai’s brightest environmental and artistic minds to share some great ways to integrate cool green ideas into your everyday routine to develop a healthier, more [...]
Dear all,
I hope you are well.
The time has come, the Plastiki is ready to begin her momentous voyage on Saturday 20th March, setting sail from Sausalito, CA, under San Francisco’s iconic Golden Gate Bridge on an adventure that will take her crew across the Pacific Ocean to Sydney Australia, on a mission to deliver a [...]
Plastiki is about to sail! They have everything ready, from their own vertical garden on the boat to their very own song. Join us in wishing them good luck!
More info at www.theplastiki.com
Throughout November and December of last year, we collaborated with enovate to gather insights into the minds of China’s socially aware, progressive youth. This was the first nation-wide survey of youth attitudes towards environmental issues and awareness!
Through an online survey of over 400 students and young employees from around China, as well as in-depth interviews [...]
