Because of the change in the global economy and the availability of online technology, consumers are starting to share, lend, rent, and trade rather than buying new products. My work is inspired by this change in consumer culture because I genuinely believe that collaborative consumption is a step in the right direction towards a sustainable way of consuming – Instead of mass producing new products why can’t we just learn to share?
Now Consume is an exhibition of work by visual communication students from The School of Creative Arts & Design at the University of Wolverhampton and has been developed in response to issues around consumerism and material culture. Themes for discussion and visual enquiry include consumer debt, independent retailing, recycling, brand deconstruction, and over packaging.
Friday, 30 January 2015
Craig Hancock –
Because of the change in the global economy and the availability of online technology, consumers are starting to share, lend, rent, and trade rather than buying new products. My work is inspired by this change in consumer culture because I genuinely believe that collaborative consumption is a step in the right direction towards a sustainable way of consuming – Instead of mass producing new products why can’t we just learn to share?
Thursday, 6 March 2014
Yunqi Zhou – Green Lifestyles
This is an activity for kids and my design idea is to encourage parents and their children to use the product package to produce handmade puppets. This is a good way for parents to teach their children how to make toys for themselves.
I advocate green consumption and love life.
Vanessa Pratley – Tempting Consumers
When consumers go shopping for groceries a vast majority of them make a list but very few stick to purchasing what they originally intended to buy. There are so many tempting deals and sales in stores to attract consumers and encourage impulsive buying.
This collection of unique shopping lists, sourced from local supermarkets, are evidence of those original shopping plans. Each list was a key point of reference in the consumer’s shopping, until the lists became targets of supermarkets deals discarded records of consumerism.
Sian Pryce – What’s the difference?
However, I then started to look at how to save money and the difference between branded food and cheap (‘ugly’) food. I finally came up with the ‘Spot the Difference’ theme to show people that there are ways to spend less money and that there is no difference between branded products and cheaper/homemade products, apart from the price.
After seeing this exhibition piece, I want people to think more carefully about not only what and how much they waste but consider their different options to save and get more for their money within their lifestyle.
Reese Hunter –
Overall the work seeks to convey the idea that “although we believe we are choosing our own identities, the only identity consumerism creates for us is based on money and what we are willing to do for it!”.
The consumerist culture has our society controlled like puppets, preoccupied like babes with hanging mobiles, telling us what to do, think and what our identity should be.
Muhammad Akbar Ali – Think shop…Think shopping!
We can choose to either follow signage instructions or not. Signs which are more difficult to ignore are road signs; not only are they designed for our benefit, but we must obey them by law.
I have chosen to convey consumer messages using the graphic system of the road sign.
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