Product Design and Sustainability: Strategies, Tools and Practice

A thorough guide to building sustainability into product design — the underlying principles plus a wide toolkit of social, economic and environmental responses, illustrated across sectors. Squarely the SDF's Sustainability motto turned into working Procedures, with an eye on the Economics motto too. Published by Routledge, Product Design and Sustainability is a guide and reference text intended to give design students, practitioners and educators the breadth and depth needed to integrate appropriate sustainable strategies into their practice. It sets out the principles underpinning sustainability and introduces a range of social, economic and environmental design responses and tools, illustrated with real-world examples across different product sectors, more than 300 photographs, graphs and diagrams, chapter summaries, annotated further-reading suggestions and a glossary. Author Jane Penty is Sustainable Design Leader for the BA Product Design course at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London.