These videos are good reminder for us both as a customer and a designer. As a customer we have to pay much more attention to the product we use, whether it’s a good or bad, honest or dishonest product. What’s the point of buying a cosmetic product when at the same time it harms our body or buying a more expensive bottled water when actually there’s no difference with the cheap one. We have to be smart in choosing what we would to wear or use because at the first place, we spend our money to buy products that will bring us a better life, not to endanger us.
It is really hard indeed to find a honest, good product because for the purpose of marketing, any producer or manufacturer certainly will try to ‘hide’ the ugly sides of their product or even deceive us customers by stating false facts like material, etc. Therefore we have to put more effort to find out the truth ourselves if we want to guarantee that the product we are using is totally safe. But then, in this era when technology is much more advance, we can get the facts online easier or we can share our knowledge to others as well, just like what Annie Leonard did.
As a designer we are also reminded to not design something that could harm people and the environment. It’s really good that nowadays more and more designers start to put environment to consideration when designing something. 3R; reduce, reuse, and recycle is now often practiced by designers and it doesn’t mean that they sacrifice their design because in fact, so many eco-friendly products out there are pretty amazing. In short, less material and eco-friendly doesn’t mean ugly.
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