Pratt and TerraCycle Team-Up For Green Design Competition
The four winning designs and 12 runner-ups will be on view at Sustainable NYC in the East Village of Manhattan during ICFF through May 19.
Nicholas Tamarin -- Interior Design, 5/18/2009 12:00:00 AM
Jewelry produced from gift cards and toothbrushes by Naima Frankel
Partnering with worm waste repurposer TerraCycle, famed New York design school Pratt Institute's Center for Sustainable Design recently launched Upcycle, a competition that challenged the school's industrial design students with creating consumer products from materials heading to the landfill.
Plastic bag vases by Morgan Street
The competition resulted in two grand-prize winners—including undergrad Morgan Street's plastic bag vases made from sandwich bags—and two runner-ups for designs in the categories of manufacturability and material transformation. Undergrad Naima Frankel took home the other top prize, for manufacturability, for her jewelry designs crafted from melted soda caps, vinyl records, toothbrushes, Target gift cards, wine corks, and more of those ubiquitous plastic sandwich bags.
Cork coasters and chopstick rests by Dan Oxiles
The four winning designs, along with 12 other designs from the competition, will be on view through May 19 at Sustainable NYC on 139 Avenue A between 8th and 9th streets in Manhattan's East Village. There will also be an opening reception May 18 from 7 to 10 p.m.
Additionally, if TerraCycle deems the winning products suitable for manufacturing, winners will receive a 1.5 percent royalty from the company.
Sponge shoes by Nicole Howell
Photos by Laurel Petriello.
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