This is more of a plug than an analysis, but about an interesting new business that has just been started by one of my nephews (Mark Ballance) in London.

Mark (with an MA in Sustainable Design & Development) and Peter Perstel (with an MA in Product and Spatial design) have created a design company called Credo Design (sustainable design, materials and promotion) which meets a growing trend and taps into the growing awareness of the need for more environmental and sustainable solutions around us.
They believe is that you should not have to compromise on style and fashion to do so. Both studied product design and they met and formulated the idea for this new business while working for the Creative Resource Sustainable Materials Library.

Their brand belief is about: living for sustainably aware design, materials and product promotion. They offer sustainable material consulting, product design and development an more.

Some of the projects they have worked on for clients like Steenberg Wine Estates, Nulife Glass and CCAT, plus some other conceptual designs are worth viewing on their site at: http://www.credodesign.co.uk/projects.html

You can contact them at info@credodesign.co.uk or via their site: http://www.credodesign.co.uk/

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