Notes Design

Arts Co is organizing the exhibition "From Now To Eternity" as part of the London Design Festival. Several designers were asked to find out how plastic inspired their creativity and explore the material's versatility - transparent or opaque, hard or pliant, able to take on a myriad of colors and forms.

Plastic is with us virtually from now to eternity: impervious to bacteria, acid, salt, rust, breakage and, in some cases, able to withstand heat, plastic is something of a miracle substance. One hundred years ago, when it was first invented, no one could have anticipated that plastic would present one of our biggest recycling challenges.

Featured above are Stuart Haygarth's ingenious Millenium Chandelier made from recycled party poppers, FAT's Soft Hercules made from flexible PU foam, Tomoko Azumi's beautiful Shaker Shadow objects made from recycled PEP, Raw Edges' Plastic Nostalgia Wardrobe with original Fisher Price Toys from the 70's, Tom Price's Fleece Chair made from found polyester fleece & resin and last but not least Rolf Sachs' PE vacuum sealed Dressed to Impress.