Dispatch from the ground #9: Wallets from the workshop

Today was an exhilarating yet exhausting day of rolling up our sleeves and getting our hands dirty. We had to test out the manufacturing process by which our premier product was made: the wallet (or billetera, pronounced beesh-eh-TERR-ah in Argentine Spanish) that...

Dispatch from the ground #4: We’ve got the heat!

Yesterday we secured a key piece of technology – a ‘selladora’ (pronounced SESH-a-DOR-ah) or heat sealer, which will allow us to make the cardholders developed by the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) locally.  We originally wanted to find a...

Manufacturing Materials @ RISD

Students at RISD have done a significant amount of material investigation many of which are collected in a set on the RISD-Waste4Life Flickr site.  And attached are recipes of some of the most salient experiments. RISD-W4L Recipes [flickr-gallery...

RISD Teams Up With Waste for Life

During the 2009-2010 academic year the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) joins the Waste for Life effort through a number of on-campus initiatives. These include an industrial design studio that will build a Kingston Press at RISD, a school-wide design competition...