More great news on the awards front this week... Yet another Leap designed website has been nominated for a prestigious Observer Ethical Award. The awards sponsored by Ecover recognised that the Good Energy Shop site, designed by Leap in 2008, is one of the country’s top three Online Retail Initiatives. Upon being nominated by their customers Good Energy said: “As a young business (we're only 7 months old) it's a real pleasure to know that you support us in our aim to tackle climate change and are as dedicated to promoting low carbon living as we are.”
Voted for by Observer readers and a panel including Colin Firth, Ken Livingstone and Steve Punt, the awards are to be announced next Wednesday 3rd June.
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Cornwall Business Awards
Unfortunately we didn't win the Best Website Award at the Cornwall Business Awards. Congratulations go to Finisterre for their most excellent web store for selling their bodacious surf wear. But seriously, their website has contributed so much to their business success that they deserved to win unreservedly.
Other winners included: Best New Business; Large Diameter Drilling, Business Improvement Through People; Pall (Newquay) and Entrepreneur; Lyn Thompson.
Congratulations to all of them.
Other winners included: Best New Business; Large Diameter Drilling, Business Improvement Through People; Pall (Newquay) and Entrepreneur; Lyn Thompson.
Congratulations to all of them.
"Slowly but Surely"
Scott Billings, in an article for Design Week Magazine last week, gave a detailed analysis of the state of designed obsolescence in graphic and industrial design.
He cites the 1964 publication of Ken Garland's 'First Things First' manifesto as: "a cry for less triviality, transience and wastefulness, and for more value." Scott also mentions the 2000 Adbusters version of 'First Things First' and how it lamented against "how graphic designers' 'time and energy is used up manufacturing demand for things that are inessential, at best'".
In the wake of Greenpeace's most recent Green Electronics Survey, Scott goes on to discuss the slow progress being made by the particularly polluting global electronics industry and highlights some exemplary products from the survey.
It's good to know that even some of the biggest players in industry are beginning to take sustainability seriously.
See the whole article here.
He cites the 1964 publication of Ken Garland's 'First Things First' manifesto as: "a cry for less triviality, transience and wastefulness, and for more value." Scott also mentions the 2000 Adbusters version of 'First Things First' and how it lamented against "how graphic designers' 'time and energy is used up manufacturing demand for things that are inessential, at best'".
In the wake of Greenpeace's most recent Green Electronics Survey, Scott goes on to discuss the slow progress being made by the particularly polluting global electronics industry and highlights some exemplary products from the survey.
It's good to know that even some of the biggest players in industry are beginning to take sustainability seriously.
See the whole article here.
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