An Environmental Problem Slipping Through the Quacks
Listening to: BBC Radio 1
As I have mentioned a couple of times Cradle
to Cradle
a fantastic book… McDonough provides
some electrifying insights into how the materials side of industrial design needs
to change (and how businesses need to change how they think). The Washington Post
has a great
article about MBDC and McDonough:
In a speech to the Industrial Designers Society of America, which is meeting at
the Marriott Wardman Park through Saturday, McDonough noted that in California, the
$2.99 bath toy comes with a warning. Toxic chemicals in that sweet, squishy body have
been known to cause cancer, birth defects or other reproductive harm.>
“What kind of society would make something like this to put in the mouths of children?”
McDonough demanded. “Design is the first signal of human intention. What is your intention?”>
No designer rose to defend the duck.
