The Secret Life of Things is a set of short animated videos exploring the hidden environmental impacts of everyday things. Each video comes with a free pack of learning resources to inspire and engage budding designers and product developers with life cycle thinking and eco-design. Read more
Secret Life of Things
Media release_26/7/10
The Age - July 20tth 2010 "Sustainability with a smile" By Dan Rule
"Just as the guys behind the Toy Story franchise have made us feel collectively guilty about all the playthings we’ve abandoned over the years, the animation Life Pscycle-ology has us thinking about all the out-dated cell phones we’ve tossed away." - Brodie Lancaster 30/07/201
"Ever Wondered What's Really In Your Cell Phone? Wonder No More" by Sara Novak 1/8/10 on planetgreen.com
Design Federation Blog 29/7/10
Australian Eco Creative website Bindarri Homepage
The Age - July 5th 2010 'Ending Obsolescence' by Michael Short
29th July 2010
The Age online - July 5th 2010 interview with Michael Short in The Zone
TU Delft Blog
Title: Animation: Past Life Regression For Eric-Sun, The Abandoned Cell Phone Quote: "Leyla’s model, via the animation, proposes design with a conscious. She encourages students to make products in consideration of the environmental and social impact, to make products that are either designed to last longer, or at least that can be taken apart and re-used elsewhere."
Page 29 Spring 2010
Title: Quirky "Secret Life of Things" Videos Demonstrate Benefits of Green Design Quote: "The Secret Life of Things transcends just the problems with the manufacturing systems. It provides actual solutions to them by different means than consumer pressure."
Title: Ever wondered what bothers your mobile phone? Quote: "introducing a catchy video called "the secret life of a little mobile phone. "You'll see that its parts are sourced all over, I mean all over the world. And they could be designed in a much better way so that they could be updated, instead of thrown out, and dissembled instead of just sent to the landfill."
Quote: "The Secret Life of Things is a newly launched passion project which includes short animated videos and educational resources on eco-design and life cycle thinking."
