Explore the tactility of paper with drawing workshops, product launches and a pop-up shop showcasing the Pith creative stationery collection. In an environmentally challenged world, how should design respond to resource constraints, spiralling costs, waste management requirements and the inevitable rise in public demand for accountability?

Rather than a barrier to innovation, Pith believes that any response to these realities should be a welcome part of the creative process. This philosophy is core to the content offered in their exclusive series of ‘You-do-Yuzu’ stationery design and making workshops scheduled at the upcoming London Design Festival. Each session leverages Pith’s centrepiece Yuzu product to demonstrate reuse possibilities, encourage interaction with waste and help attendees reimagine and create in their design language.

“We see these workshops as a way to open conversation and engage with our community around the subject of future and re-usable materials,” comments Pith co-founder Liam Goward. “A product constructed using waste is capable of being beautiful, it can also skip traditional recycling routes, producing upsides in cost, supply chain efficiencies, processing and carbon footprint.”
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The ‘You-do-Yuzu’ sessions adopt the simple example of reusing cover-board offcuts from Pith’s manufacturing process for participants to design and create a personalised book to take away.

“We take great care in sourcing this beautiful recycled material and we believe that the same degree of consideration should go into reapplying it. During each workshop, we will communicate new ideas, facilitate group discussion and engage attendees in practical design sessions. The result should be a different way of thinking about waste at home, in the boardroom, design studio and on the factory floor; What other materials are being thrown away without consideration? What design and business opportunities are being missed as a result?” adds Pith’s co-founder Andrew Hardie.