josh williams r&d


I am a Product Design major at San Francisco State University. I am on track to earn my Bachelor of Science in Industrial Design with a concentration in Product Design and Development.

I am wowed by the timeless architecture and design of the 50’s that still remains relevant and modern today.

I am inspired by everyday situations that pose interesting or unique problems and change the way we look at our surroundings. I like the feeling of a new discovery or respect with objects that we use every day.

I am influenced by my friends, colleagues, and professors. I look up to anyone who is willing to take creative risks and submit themselves to public critique. I recently watched Objectified and want to buy a Banzai tree to be more like Dieter Rams.

I am thoughtful, hopeful, patient, resourceful, indecisive, and restless.
Link

Starbucks Honored for Recycled-Content Cup | GreenBiz.com

“Developing the recycled-content cup is just one of the company’s environmental initiatives. A major participant in the Sustainable Packaging Coalition, Starbucks offers customers a ten-cent discount for using a re-usable commuter mug, generating a strong, loyal base of customers who practice waste prevention. In 2004, customers used commuter mugs 15.1 million times, avoiding 655,000 pounds of paper waste.
Starbucks also encourages customers to use coffee grounds, which make up 37% of the waste stream created by its stores, as a soil amendment by offering complimentary five-pound bags of used coffee grounds through its Grounds for Your Garden program.”
These types of programs are great and I’m curious to know if they exist on campus and we just don’t know about them. I’ll find out this week if there is any existing relationship between used coffee grounds and the campus landscape.



July 13, 2009, 5:47pm