Designed For Life

As a collective group of designers, entrepreneurs, and consumers, we view design as our most powerful tool to bring about the next industrial revolution.

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DFL Tenet No. 2: Durable 💪

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Sustainable materials company Ottan is creating furniture and various building materials from food waste. 👏

To learn more, check out the story below. https://t.co/KYMa1RzYtU

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DFL Tenet No. 1: Loveable ❤️

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Designed to Evolve is the second pillar of the Designed For Life framework.

By companies creating products that are designed to evolve, the items we own can adapt to our ever-changing lives and remain useful for a longer period of time. 👏

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Built to Last is one of the two pillars behind the DFL framework. DFL advocates for products that are built to last a lifetime and designed to evolve with us through our ever-changing lives. 👏

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We believe that consumers are critical stakeholders. Buy better to buy less. 👍👍

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Google recently launched a 70-page packaging design guide to help other companies eliminate plastic from their packaging. 📦👏

🔗 To learn more, check out the story below
https://t.co/hmjL6J8Bom

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We believe that thoughtful design leads to thoughtful consumption. ✅

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The products we buy should built to last a lifetime and designed to evolve throughout our ever-changing lives. This is what we call true sustain-ability. 👏

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A handful of leading fashion brands have recently committed to exploring ways to make money without making new clothes as part of a new initiative called "The Fashion ReModel" by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation. 👕👏

🔗To learn more, check out this story: https://t.co/XBX5YGj1sL

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We believe that shrinking the pie is the goal. ✅

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Consumer behavior is based upon our needs & what companies offer.

If a company makes replacement parts for a product easily accessible & simple to swap out, repair becomes the norm rather than replacing a product entirely when a component fails, for example. 👏

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By designers creating products that are built to last and designed to evolve, we can inspire humankind to buy better, to buy less. 🌎❤️

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With our Reclaimable tenet, the DFL design process purposefully makes plans for all components to be recycled, repurposed, peer-to-peer traded, and even biodegradable so the nutrients can be reclaimed by the Earth. 🌎

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Asics recently launched their Nimbus Mirai sneakers, which are designed to be easily disassembled at the end of their life and repurposed into new sneakers and more. 👟♻️

🔗To learn more, check out this @GreenBiz story: https://t.co/6mZoELl28n

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As consciously made products become more competitive in their realm, all firms & designers are compelled to follow suit, and even aloof consumers will ultimately have no choice to but to utilize products that are designed more sustainably. 👏

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Happy Earth Month. 🌎

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DFL demands that we design evolutionary product platforms that can be innovated on over time, not just products. 👍

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If someone loves a product, they will make the effort to maintain it, make it adapt to their changing life, and keep it out of landfills by keeping it in their life or passing it on to someone who will equally love it.

Buy better to buy less. 👏💙

#DesignedForLife #loveable

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Designed For Life inspires companies to design better so humankind can buy better, to buy less. 👏💙

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