Shelves For Life By William Warren

Human being will face a huge problem, which is overconsumption. Everyday people’s eyes are filled with many kinds of advertising and graphic designs, which impact mental and physical aspects of people by using various images. These commercial advertisements, with the aim of achieving profit, encourage the consumer to purchase their product, reminding people’s desire to purchase their product, and let people get in trouble of ‘over-consuming’ situation unconsciously. As the overconsumption is the leading driver toward an environmental shipwreck. And driving toward worldwide overconsumption, the environment is the biggest issue of the day, It is that simple: humans consuming too much stuff are causing us to tear at the earth, upset the oceans,

Unfortunately, while the economic flourish in the 20th century, the environment of our planet becomes more and more unsustainable . At this urgent moment, designers should heal the world, in other words, they should take their responsibility to design a sustainable future together, and a way needs to be found to meet our needs without compromising the ease for future generations to meet theirs . One of the examples for design considering sustainability is Shelves for Life (Figure 1 and 2), designed by William Warren, who is a conceptual designer from London. This product was first launched at the British Library during the 2005 London Design Festival and it is an extremely sustainable design, which can last people’s lifetime. William used wood with colour as materials. This furniture will become to a part of the purchaser, because it can be taken apart and reassembled as a coffin when purchaser’s time arrives. The brass plate under the bottom shelf, that tells the story about this transformation, is then flipped over and you’re dates inscribed on it. William demonstrates that it is a project to further explore ideas of built-in sentimentality within our possessions. The aim is to make stronger emotional relationships with our belongings and encourage life-long use. Another example from architecture design is Council House 2 (Figure 3), known as CH2, which is a six green star office building in Melbourne. Compared with CH1, this building reduces electricity consumption by 85%, gas consumption by 87%, produces only 13% of the emissions, and reduces water mains supply by 72%. It is featured by new LCD computer monitors, which will consume 77% less energy, and new T5 light fittings which should consume 65% less energy. The building also houses 48 m2 of solar panels, which provide 60% of hot water, as well as a gas-fired cogeneration plant which provides 40% of the