Sweet Idea!

Great idea from The Partners, Honey packaging that allows you to resuse the pot to grow flowers ... helping the bees and not creating more landfill fodder. I like the type lockup on the front, too!

hanger pak

This is what I call a packaging that kills 2 birds with one stone - It is a box and also acts as a hanger! Concept cleverly thought of by Steve Haslip, a graphic designer from Wivelsfield Green, England.

"The concept was fairly simple: I buy t-shirts online and they always come wrinkled and I always run out of coat-hangers. So I designed a sustainable, reusable way to send and keep your t-shirts. As you open the package you create a coat hanger. The packaging could be made from recycled material whether it is card or plastic and the only waste is the green tear-away tab. The t-shirt seen here is from Threadless. This project won a FIRST prize in the D&AD Student Awards 2007 category 'What else do you do?'." (via dieline)

MorLove T-shirt Design Contest

For all the artists out there who have been waiting to use their creativity and talent to make a difference in the world, this competition goes out to you!

MorLove is holding a T-Shirt Design Competition where five t-shirt designs will be chosen to be sold through our Skreened (www.skreened.com/morlove) account. From each t-shirt sold, MorLove will receive $2 which will be sent to the Amani Baby Cottage. The five winners of the competition will also receive a ticket to Redress Raleigh 2010 Eco-Friendly Fashion Show.

Your mission is to design a new MorLove t-shirt that exemplifies the organization’s goals and ethics. All will be showcased, the best will be chosen!

How to submit your t-shirt designs: Email either a JPG, PNG or GIF file to morloveorg@gmail.com.

Deadline: December 1, 2009 at 5p.m. 

You can find out more about MorLove here.

Nau's menswear.

 From Ecouterre: "Nau’s vision of sustainable apparel is one that does not compromise, and it shows in the attention and research the label applies to all its clothing. These products are not just well-sourced and well-designed, but they also have utilitarian simplicity in mind. Nau knows that the more useful a piece of clothing is, the longer you will keep it, and it makes its clothes to fit that philosophy. The down winter jackets, for instance, feature different stitching patterns that are designed to help you retain heat in the most crucial parts of the body—very smart.

If you love a shirt so much that
you’ll wear it for 30 years,
that’s pretty darn sustainable.

Also impressive is Nau’s selection of jeans and pants in eight different cuts and styles, including straight-cut, tapered, and relaxed-fit. You can finish off any look with Nau’s sustainably made bags, belts, and wallets. Bonus: Nau donates 2 percent of your order to a charity of your choice." more

Packaging: xroads Philippine Sea Salts

From The Dieline: "The boxes are hand-woven by local townspeople, made from native nipa palm. Two kinds are used - a lighter untreated palm and a dark smoked palm - each is used for one of two different salt varieties.

Not only is the box itself locally grown and made in the Philippines, but the twine is made from a native banana plant as well. Even the tag is printed on handmade paper made of local cogon grass, abaca and salago fibers. Everything is biodegradable.

The only points against its super-eco-friendly cred are the FDA required plastic bag insert and having to transport the products overseas. Still, it's the closest you'd get to 100% sustainable packaging, short of selling the product locally. The entire product from contents through packaging benefits the economy of the local community in the Philippines, which is a wonderful thing in its own right. more

all images 2009 Yael Miller