Norihikokawata's Blog

March 16, 2010

“Mrs Jones & Wastesaver!”

Filed under: ARD114 The Role of the Designer - Ethical Issues — norihikokawata @ 9:59 pm

From the Oxfam website (accessed on 16/03/2010), you’d be able to see this information.

“Designer Mrs Jones … will be hosting in-store workshops showing shoppers how to customise the vast array of finds available from your local Oxfam shop …”

It sounds like you can get a tutorial on how to make your own style clothes from things you bought in Oxfam shops.  I guess Mrs Jones is allowing a design process to happen.  This is I think very environmentally friendly.  I think it would look like this flow chart.

Someone have something           The items gets           Goes on         Profit goes to

that he/she doesn’t want   –>  donated to Oxfam –>   sale     –>   developing   –>

countries

Mrs Jones helps customers

making new garments using

these items

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