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wasted talent the blog collection of articles and visuals by sophie thomas skip to the content search wasted talent the blog collection of articles and visuals by sophie thomas menu about new work collaborations exhibitions letterpress circular design blog search search for close search close menu about new work collaborations exhibitions letterpress circular design blog about letterpress face as a designer i ve spent the last two decades fascinated by the way advances in manufacturing have blithely generated waste as a by product of consumption i investigate materials through creative processes and collaborations i use waste as a raw material creating ink from carbon recovered from tyres and vessels from waste glass i learn through environmental science and teardown to uncover dismantling shoes laptops oil rigs etc and i analyse through the lifecycles and the data being the first designer to be awarded chartership in waste management i am a design garbologist investigating why design encourages wasteful habits i am an unusual mix of creative campaigner and design agitator i have worked in the design sector for over 20 years and currently flexing my creative muscles once again i was director of circular economy and before that co director of design in the action research centre at the rsa where i founded and ran the great recovery project for four years i have been working in the fields of sustainable design behaviour change and material process through my design agency thomas matthews since it begun in 1997 as a partnership with kristine matthews alongside collecting plastic debris from the edges of the seas i have assisted global businesses and uk government organisations to define the role of designers within discussions around waste streams resource efficiency and circular economies i do a lot of campaigning work and over the last decades i have founded a number of social enterprises with aims to advance the design industry s capacity to respond to environmental challenges through knowledge sharing and investigation all the things i do fuel my curiosity about why things are the way they are i say enough of talking we need action investigation exploration and innovation i like the it may not work but goddammit let s try it mentality and i know that good design thinking is key as well as asking the right question in the first place this site pulls together past articles blogs and images that have until now been scattered around the globe and internet and my current work there is a theme somewhere share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook leave a reply cancel reply comment name email website δ search for recent posts broken ocean installation at collect open 2019 plastiglomerate the fossil of the present archive ghostnet chandelier glass and light at ldf 2018 getting clay under the fingernails drawing and creating again the seven stages of degradation archives archives select month november 2019 november 2015 july 2015 march 2014 categories categories select category circular economy colour design drawing exhibition glass work letterpress thinking and campaigning uncategorized site create account log in entries feed comments feed wordpress com 2026 wasted talent blog at wordpress com to the top up subscribe subscribed wasted talent sign me up have a wordpress com account log in now privacy wasted talent copy shortlink view post in reader manage subscriptions sign up log in report this content collapse this bar