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plastic bag installation
Designer
April 2019
Single-use plastic bags have become an environmental problem, yet many people continue using them. Using funding from the Coca-Cola Grant, our independent study team sought to directly change the actions of our fellow students to reduce plastic bag use.
We designed a large-scale installation made from plastic bags collected over several weeks. Our design is a gradient of the various colored bags to create a quilt. The plastic bags were melted together with an iron so the only waste produced was the fishing wire used to hang the quilt.
TEAM MEMBERS
BECCA SCHALIP
ALEX LONCAR
BRI CORCINO
DAN MCDONNELL
EVAN VAN DEUSEN
MALENA GRIGOLI
SARA BERNHARDT
SOFIA KUSPAN
TYLER YOUNG
TIME LAPSE
EVENT PHOTOS
The quilt produced visual effects with logos, colors, and quantity of companies. The design made it easy to spot stores commonly shopped at within the sea of bags.
Simultaneously, I designed three styles of canvas tote bags that we would hand out to students at a debut event. Our goal was to give students a solution to offer an alterative to using plastic bags. The debut event, named “Less Is More”, was highly successful and was attended by students, professors, and the Dean of The College of Engineering. Students can regularly be seen carrying our canvas bags in the architecture school and even around the Ohio State campus.
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