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Ch23. 拆招CMF設計談從環境友善到永續
CMF is a specific discipline within industrial design that focuses on the development of a product’s color, material, and finish. Unwrap CMF shares bite-sized stories of CMF Design to inform and inspire those interested in this niche yet fascinating field, with digestible contents for anyone and everyone. Comments and inspirations are welcome!
Environmental protection has been a long-standing topic in CMF Design, but its focus slowly evolves as time passes by. (中文請見下方)
In the early days, we would usually use “eco-friendly” as the keyword, that is, natural materials such as wood. However, after realizing that we cannot take away plastic from modern life, the focus of the discussion has evolved into the “sustainability” of material usage.
Sustainability is a broad genre. There are many possibilities at the implementation level: natural materials, material repurpose (such as coffee grounds, pineapple fibers, etc.), material recycling, energy reduction during manufacturing, etc.
However, the biggest challenge is the speed of popularity. Take bamboo fiber as an example: since its official appearance in the early 2000’s, it hasn’t been popularized in the consumer market until the past few years. Even so, due to its material property, bamboo fiber is still rejected by industries of strict testing standards.
Popularization in manufacturing is just as challenging. Taking mobile phone industry as another example. Although water-based paint has been widely used on other products, it is hardly implementable in the mobile phone industry. In this industry that traditionally uses oil-based paint, to switch to water-based paint, the transportation, storage, and production lines all have to be reconstructed.
Neither eco-friendliness or sustainability is an easy path. It requires all of us to work together, and that means the manufacturers, designers, and consumers.
Lastly, let’s look at it from a different angle: the evolution from eco-friendliness to sustainability is a vivid example of changes in consumer trends. I won’t dive into trend forecasting this time, but let me throw out a question to think about: if standing in the time of 2000, would you agree more with “zero plastic” or “plastic recycling and repurpose”?
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環保一直是CMF設計領域的長年議題，但隨著時代變遷，環保議題的側重也在慢慢演變。
在早期，環保材料的關鍵字是「環境友善（eco-friendly）」，也就是竹、木等非人造的天然材質。然而，在意識到現代生活已經無法避免塑膠等人為製品後，近年改而以「永續（sustainability）」作為主軸。
永續只是大方向，在執行層面有多種可能：天然材質、創新材料的開發（如近年爆紅的咖啡渣、鳳梨纖維、貝殼薄膜等）、回收材料的循環利用、減免製程中的能源耗費等，都是可以發揮的產品落實方案。
然而永續材質最大的挑戰莫過於它的普及速度，舉竹纖維為例，自從21世紀初期正式問世，一直到過去幾年才慢慢被普及於消費市場。即便如此，因為竹纖維的材料特性，導致它還是無法被許多有高規測試要求的行業所運用。
除了消費市場，在製造端的普及也是一大挑戰。再舉例我熟悉的手機行業，雖然水性漆已在其他產品上被廣泛運用，並非新材料，但要將水性漆落實於手機製造鏈卻是艱難的過程。在這個長年使用油性漆的產業，如果切換到水性漆，運輸、存放、噴塗產線都須重新拉通，實非易事。
無論是環境友善或永續都不容易，需要製造端、設計師、消費者協心齊力。
最後換個角度，從「環境友善」到「永續」，這個轉變其實也是消費者市場趨勢變化的案例。這邊我先賣個關子，暫時不深入探討趨勢預測這一言難盡的主題，但先丟出來讓讀者們思考：如果站在千禧年的時間點，你會比較認同「零塑」還是「塑膠回收再利用」呢？
Environmental protection includes but not limited to use of natural materials, recycling, energy reduction during manufacturing, etc.
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In the earlier time, environmental awareness was limited to non-manmade materials such as wood.
And then environmental awareness began to extend to the idea of material recycling, such as floor mats made of recycled tires.
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Various applications of recycled ocean waste through hot pressing.
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Bamboo fiber is a well-developed organic material. Lately, we are also seeing innovations with coffee grounds, pineapple fiber, etc.
(Octagonal plate made of bamboo fiber by TZULAï.)
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