Ecolect Launches Online Sustainable Materials Library

By DE Editors

Ecolect (Providence, RI & San Francisco, CA) launched the first free sustainable materials library online that enables professionals in product design, architecture, and graphic design to find and research a growing range of sustainable materials.

Ecolect was created to save designers time and money by answering three important questions: where do I find sustainable materials, what makes them sustainable, and who else is using them and how.

Ecolect offers its users an easy-to-use website featuring only materials with sustainable attributes, content that stimulates discussion about what sustainability is, and how it is defined; the ability to contribute user reviews and images of materials in use; case studies on successful sustainable design; and a blog on how ecology affects the world.

Created by Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) graduates and award-winning entrepreneurs, Ecolect.net was introduced at the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design/Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) CONNECTING '07 World Design Congress, held in October.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company's website.