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Blue...it's the New Green!
By RKS Design
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A copolyester resin coupled with an inspired design gives Y Water bottles a second life as a building toy.
By Linda Casey, Associate Editor
Packaging Digest - June 1, 2008 |
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In 2007, marine biologists discovered the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch,” a massive, continent-sized flotilla of plastic garbage between San Francisco and Hawaii. So when we talk about reducing our footprint for future generations, it’s not just about “green”…it’s about preserving and caring for the blue – the waters of our world upon which our planet thrives. For life, there must be water. Los Angeles-based RKS Design created this case study based on its work on the KOR ONE Hydration Vessel. KOR ONE is the talk of the blogs for good reason – it’s a healthy, sustainable and environmentally sound way to drink water. And KOR ONE looks good, too.
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 www.rksdesign.com
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Two words popular with children – “Why?” and “Why not?” – inspired renowned designer Yves Béhar to create the Y Water bottle. Behar visually represents the question, “Why?” with a bottle shaped as an upside-down letter Y. The “Why Not?” brought the bottle to life with “Y Knot” connectors – enabling the bottle’s second life as a toy. It is a clever design – so clever that many bottle makers thought it virtually impossible. That is until Bekum America’s Gary Carr got involved. He connected Thomas Arndt of Y Water and Béhar with Eastman and its Eastar™ EB062. “Not only was Eastman’s copolyester resin compatible with the bottle design, it also would produce a bottle tough enough to withstand rough handling for the bottles’ secondary use as a toy.”
View Article at:
www.packagingdigest.com
Inspiration -Y Water
Application - Y Water |
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Panelists: Innovation needs collaboration
By Frank Esposito
Plastics News - March 24, 2008 |
Eastman opens online medical tech center
Medical Market - Special Report
Plastics News - February 11, 2008 |
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“In the world of plastics design, water can start with a Y and a pig can be called a pug.” So goes this report on a design and innovation panel discussion at the Plastics News Executive Forum March 11 in Tampa, Florida. Panelists included Frank Tyneski, executive director of the Industrial Designers Society of America; Martin Bunce, managing partner of the UK design firm, Tin Horse; Gary Carr, director of sales for Bekum America; Robert Malloy, chair of the plastics engineering department at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell; and Gaylon White, director of design programs at Eastman. The Y Water bottle, designed by Yves Béhar of fuseproject, served as the springboard for a lively discussion on packaging.
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Eastman’s new online medical tech center offers users the ability to toggle between the tech center and its Eastman Innovation Lab website, where more can be learned about materials being used in various medical markets as well as nine medical concepts developed by design students.
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www.eastman.com
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Right-brain risks keep us creative
by Bob Grace
Plastics News - January 21, 2008 |
Waves of the Future
by Marianne Wilson
Chain Store Age - December 15, 2007 |
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The traditional reasons for why something can't be done are no longer acceptable. From the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) conferences to the upcoming Plastics News Annual Executive Forum, Bob Grace, editor, associate publisher, and conference director of Plastics News, challenges the creative risk takers in the plastics industry to start using both sides of their brains.
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La Maison Unique Longchamp, located in New York City's SoHo district, has what appears to be a floating staircase leading customers to its main selling space on the second floor. Heatherwick Studio, based in London, designed the so-called stair landscape, creating ribbon-like stairs with wavy balustrades using Quinn PETG sheet made from Eastman’s Spectar™ copolyester resin. More information on the Longchamp stair landscape can be accessed via the Innovation Lab's eZone and Building & Construction sections.
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www.chainstoreage.com
eZone
Building & Construction
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Y Water Inventors Find Blow Molding Answer
By Rhonda Miel
Plastics News- November 5, 2007 |
Y Water? Y Not?
IDSA - designBytes
November 12, 2007
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Tell an entrepreneur and a designer it can't be done and watch what happens. Together, Thomas Arndt, founder of Y Water, and Yves Béhar, founder of fuseproject, the ground-breaking San Francisco
design firm, wanted to create a bottle that doubled
as a toy when emptied of children's water containing healthy, organic sugar-free supplements.
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The Nov. 12, 2007 edition of the designBytes electronic newsletter for the Industrial Designers Society of America highlights a BusinessWeek article on Y Water, a new development drink for kids. The story follows an Eastman Innovation Lab luncheon presentation, "The Packaging of Y Water", at Connecting '07 by Yves Béhar, founder of the San Francisco-based design firm fuseproject, and Thomas Arndt, president of Y Water.
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Notre Dame Students Design Displays
P.O.P. Design - 2007 |
Students create P-O-P designs with material
By Erika Flynn
P.O.P. Design - 2007 |
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As part of the 2005 Eastman IDSA Education Conference, a group of University of Notre Dame design-class students used their own creativity and Eastman’s Spectar copolyester sheet to develop point-of-purchase displays. The Fighting Irish classmates claim there was no luck involved – just skill.
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Auburn University students teamed with Eastman and Sheffield Plastics for another hands-on project to create point-of-purchase designs using sheets
of transparent, thermoplastic copolyester.
Professor Chris Arnold said, “…My goal was to get
them to work with the understanding that materials influence design…”
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www.popdesign.com |
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Auracell® & Tenite™ from Eastman
Material Inspirations - July 2006 |
Prototype Pack Has Designs on Medical Emergencies
By Jim Butschili, Editor
Healthcare Packaging - Fall 2007
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Material Inspirations magazine, a materials resource for innovation, showcases pebbles made from Rotuba's Auracell® scented natural polymer based on and Eastman’s Tenite™ cellulosics. Based in Linden, New Jersey, Rotuba partnered with Eastman to create Auracell®. Scents range from floral to chocolate, evoking emotion as well as relaxation. The possibilities are endless.
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One of the highlights of a 2006 design initiative between Eastman and Savannah College of Art and Design is a prototype syringe pack for medical emergencies created by Christine Doolittle. The concept is showcased in the fall 2007 issue of Healthcare Packaging. The prototype package aims to reduce the time necessary to open and administer drugs during a medical emergency. More information on the concept can be accessed via the Innovation Lab's Medical section.
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www.healthcare-packaging.com |
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RKS open-architecture guitar swaps PU for cellulosics
By Robert Grace
Plastics News - August 22, 2005
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Materials: Scent of a pebble
PRA (Plastics and Rubber Asia)
August 2005
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Musicians, especially guitarists, get into a comfort
zone with their instruments and stay there until
they're as old as Keith Richards. However, one
guitar maker has successfully replaced the standard polyurethane body with cellulosics, and is getting
rave reviews, richer tones and professional endorsements.
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www.plasticsnews.com
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There’s nothing fishy here. Using the human
senses – touch, sight, smell and sound – there
is a revitalization of materials in the plastics industry. Scented plastic pebbles? Material suppliers
such as Eastman are closing the knowledge gap
between the material and the designer.
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www.plasticsandrubberasia.com |
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Material Difference
By Martin Ashcroft
The Manufacturer - January 2005 |
Design and materials disrupt the norm
by Michelle Maniscalco
Injection Molding - November 2005
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Like an old-time revival without the shouting
or the tents, designers are being encouraged
to bring new life to traditional materials. It's
part of an extreme makeover of staple
components where ideas drive the
innovation that leads to new applications of
common products, filling the communication
gap between the design world and material
world.
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www.themanufacturer.com |
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All you have to do is glance at the Ruby Red
model to catch the passion with which
the design team pursued its
goal—to develop a hollow-bodied
guitar with a unique sound, feel,
and look. It was exactly this connection
that helped produce the IDEA-winning
Pop Series guitar.
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www.immnet.com |
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Aging population inspires plastics, design
By Rhoda Miel
Plastics News - October 9, 2006
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Collective Vision
By IDEO
May 2003
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A triumvirate of business, academia and designers
has joined forces to create innovative plastic products
to address inherent opportunities in the aging
of the global population. It is part of a movement
called "inclusive design" that helps people cope with changes in their abilities.
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A materials supplier (Eastman) and a design firm (IDEO) share a collective vision: advancing design through materials. As designers expand the possibilities for form-based design solutions, they strive to reinterpret the traditional and introduce new
materials into their design palettes. IDEO,
one of the world's leading design firms, provides its
perspective on the potential uses of Eastman cellulosics and copolyesters in eyewear.
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Touchy-Feely
By David Sokol
I.D. - May 2005
The International Design Magazine |
The Eastman-IDEO Vision
By Robert Grace
Plastics News - July 2003 |
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Eastman's Material Difference program teaches designers to fall in love with a material because of its sensual qualities.
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www.idonline.com |
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A resin producer and design firm have come together to create innovative eyewear. The result is an exotic range of prototype, high-fashion eyewear using Eastman materials.
download (3.43 MB PDF)
www.plasticsnews.com |
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