Design and Craft As awareness of current environmental issues increases, so does pressure on manufacturers and designers to produce environmentally friendly, yet functional products. Fumi Masuda is an industrial designer extremely concerned with the environment. He works on research projects concerning eco-design and attempts to apply the philosophy of design for sustainability to all his design practise. His beautifully crafted ‘Pile Chair’, pictured above, is hand built out of discarded wooden furniture. Masuda endeavours to look at all recycled or ‘second hand’ objects as raw materials for new designs, instead of the end product. His very holistic approach to design, creates beautiful furniture and highlights the fact that it is possible for well crafted designed to be made of materials previously though of as junk. ‘We should come back to learn from nature. There is no waste in nature. Everything just goes in circles, everything is recycled…It is our responsibility to reuse products again and again.’ Masuda’s works such as ‘Pile Chair’ offer inspiration to designers, encouraging sustainable design and craft and setting the standard for eco- design of the future.

Design and Craft

As awareness of current environmental issues increases, so does pressure on manufacturers and designers to produce environmentally friendly, yet functional products. Fumi Masuda is an industrial designer extremely concerned with the environment. He works on research projects concerning eco-design and attempts to apply the philosophy of design for sustainability to all his design practise.

His beautifully crafted ‘Pile Chair’, pictured above, is hand built out of discarded wooden furniture. Masuda endeavours to look at all recycled or ‘second hand’ objects as raw materials for new designs, instead of the end product. His very holistic approach to design, creates beautiful furniture and highlights the fact that it is possible for well crafted designed to be made of materials previously though of as junk. ‘We should come back to learn from nature. There is no waste in nature. Everything just goes in circles, everything is recycled…It is our responsibility to reuse products again and again.’ Masuda’s works such as ‘Pile Chair’ offer inspiration to designers, encouraging sustainable design and craft and setting the standard for eco- design of the future.

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