The Product Development Of Our Eco-Friendly Wrapping Paper Is Quite The Mission
We care massively about the environmental credentials of our work, but it's also got to be a product that people want to use and one that we can re...
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We are a design led, environmentally conscious business. We believe that life should be pretty, fun and filled with little pleasures. We also believe that with a little bit of thought and effort, that the fun we have can have a lasting positive effect on our planet. Each and every one of us has not just the responsibility, but also the power to do their bit. By thinking about how we approach every day things in a sensitive way, we can continue to enjoy the way we live, and do a little bit of good along the way. Changing behavior can be hard to do, working better with what we have is a whole lot easier... and that's what we're trying to do.
University students in Birmingham, Karl and Ben met in the summer of '94 and quickly become friends, by the end of that year, the boys were working on their first creative projects together, promoting and playing music and eventually setting up a production / events agency that would later give rise to...
Across arts, music, fashion, retail and transport, our fledgline creative agency gained national recognition and plenty of awards. As the internet sprang to life, we created a number of firsts in eCommerce - including actual success stories, rather than flops from the .com boom
Environmental awareness was important long before it was trendy. It was the hard route - arguing with climate change deniers, negotiating with procurement departments about why we weren't prepared to compromise and having to work harder to get great results because of a lack of paper and card options to work with, and a lot of the old tricks for beautiful print finishes were out of the window.
Through assessment and partnership with the newly launched Carbon Trust, we became a net zero supplier of design and print services and offset our travel and energy use by investing in reforestation and conservation projects in Borneo.
The internet was still, relatively speaking, in its infancy... the iphone and its apps (released 2007) still a thing of the future, and huge amounts of paper print was still being generated by almost every kind of business. We created a network of printers with strong eco credentials to minimise impact.
After decades of design and digital work on other people's eCommerce, we decided to take all that learning and begin launching projects of our own. Our first project www.allmamaschildren.com, specialising in sustainable toys and parenting was soft launched in late 2016 and continues to grow to this day.
That 25 year journey has brought us to where we are today... Passionate designers, who understand the print industry and are passionate about making high quality, low impact products to serve the everyday needs of people who think like we do and even some of those who don't. Pretty, luxurious, earth friendly and affordable to most pockets, we're on a mission to drive change, one little habit at a time.
We care massively about the environmental credentials of our work, but it's also got to be a product that people want to use and one that we can re...
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