Eco-design as a designer

You're an industrial designer and you'd like to learn about eco-design with tools that suit you, taking into account your visual sensibility and your taste for analogies. How can you integrate an eco-design approach into your industrial design process?

This sheet will enable you to direct your creative research towards eco-concepts and to make a simple choice between several alternatives. The key points are as follows:

• identify the environmental "Achilles heel" of the product to be designed;

• looking for inspiration;

• come up with creative eco-concepts and choose between several ;

• assert the identity of your eco-designed product.