About
ESP Design is an online guide 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.
Launched by sustainable design expert Tom Greenwood in 2004 as Environmentally Sustainable Product Design, the site name was changed to Entirely Sustainable Product Design in 2005 in order to more accurately reflect the wide range of issues that affect sustainability. It has recently been updated again with a major redesign and the introduction of a sustainable design youtube channel.
Tom Greenwood is a brand consultant with the brand design agency Scamper Branding. He has a background in sustainable product design and engineering and now advises clients on sustainable product development and branding strategies. He is a UK liaison for the O2 global sustainable design network and was awarded the 2007 KTP Business leader of Tomorrow Award by the UK government for his forward thinking approach and commitment to sustainability. His work has been published in The Big Book of Green Design by HarperCollins and he is author of the sustainable design chapter for the forthcoming design textbook ‘Design and Designing’. Tom runs ESP Design in his spare time 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. His main area of interest now focusses on sustainable business design and he is a partner in the web marketing businesses Hotels Fairy and Broadband Hub.
Users of the ESP Design website are encouraged to get involved in its development in a variety of ways, including contributing research or data.