About ESP Design

ESP Design is an online resource for design professionals and students seeking to learn about Sustainable Product Design. It is intended that as well as providing a background to sustainable product design, ESP Design also provides practical advice and guidelines on how to design sustainable products.

Originally Environmentally Sustainable Product Design, the name of ESP Design has been changed to Entirely Sustainable Product Design in order to more accurately reflect the wide range of issues that affect sustainability.

Sustainable Designer Tom GreenwoodESPDesign.org was created in spring 2004 as part of the final year degree project of Tom Greenwood, who at the time was studying Engineering Product Design at Aston University.

Tom Greenwood is now a brand strategist with the sustainable brand consultancy Scamper. He runs ESP Design with the aim of promoting good practice in product design, and to provide good quality information to the many designers out there with in interest in sustainability.

Users of the site are encouraged to get involved in its development in a variety of ways, including contributing research or data.