Product Design: Inger Steinnes has an eye for beautiful eco-friendly design

Date
9 October 2013

There’s nothing quite like really lovely-looking product design, and when we discover that a creation we like the look of is environmentally-friendly too there’s nothing to stop us from gushing about it. And can we gush.

Inger Steinnes, a young Norwegian designer, knows what we’re on about. She makes aesthetically pleasing products which are malleable to a customer’s needs without becoming gimmicky, and eco-friendly without making you feel like a terrible person when you guiltily remember the yoghurt pot you accidentally threw in the non-recycling bin earlier.

For her project Brewseries for example Inger has made a collection of vases from a material named Brewplaster, which mixes used coffee grounds with plaster and colour to make something nice out of an otherwise useless waste product. Similarly thoughtful is Dupla, a range of trays she designed for the café at the Norwegian National Gallery, which can be taken apart and put back together again in endless combinations to create a range of different trays. Could she tick any more boxes?

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Inger Steinnes: And I Will Try to Fix You

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Inger Steinnes: And I Will Try to Fix You

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Inger Steinnes: Dupla

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Inger Steinnes: Dupla

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Inger Steinnes: Brewseries

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Inger Steinnes: Brewseries

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Maisie Skidmore

Maisie joined It’s Nice That fresh out of university in the summer of 2013 as an intern before joining full time as an Assistant Editor. Maisie left It’s Nice That in July 2015.

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