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Design for Sustainability Survival Guide

Ed van Hinte, Yvo Zijlstra, and Conny Bakker

Design for Sustainability Survival Guide concerns all the details on applying sustainability requirements in design. It is a critical and concise overview of the important facts from all imaginable angles. The book is written and illustrated to inform, support and inspire future designers.

The guide covers everything in from personal reader experience to universal guiding principles, from energy use and the flow of materials to the role of time, consumption, use, circularity and reduction.

It includes tips, principles and guidelines to nourish design projects from start to finish. New approaches beyond the conventional are introduced and current assumptions on economics, technology and design are pointed out throughout the book.

A critical and concise guide for product- and industrial designers, students, researchers and consultants working on design

,Authors are acclaimed in their professor of Design for Sustainability the TU Delft, Acclaimed design critic and prize winning graphic designer

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