alessia schiavi

Visual Communication student at Arts Bournemouth University

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FMP evaluation

Approaching the global warming issue has been a research challenge as well as a design challenge. Starting off with trying to tackle climate change felt as broad as 'trying to save the world'. Therefore, a large part of this project was to carefully analyse this huge topic to find design opportunities and create a positive change in society. Since the beginning, I was attracted to the critical importance of the oceans. During that time, I researched plankton and phytoplankton. These tiny creatures and their enormous impact on Earth was something that attempted to bring forward with the idea of developing a mobile phone animated lock screen. Further in the project, I felt that the illustrations weren't effective in communicating the beauty of phytoplankton and make people care about them. Since photography wasn't an option as the range of pictures available wasn't satisfactory, I moved on to the electronic waste issue and researched it thoroughly after finding out that the average replacement cycle of a phone is 22 months. My research developed into mobile phone recycling, currently at 10%, and the number of unused devices in our homes. The final outcome is an advertising campaign which touches three different points: a prototype of a physical mobile phone recycling container, an animated Instagram Story advert and a poster. The bold typeface aims to grab the viewer's attention on social media and supports the use of a catchy fast tempo. With the choice of the colour blue, I'm hoping to shift the association of "good to the environment"/eco-friendly away from the green to reflect the colour of our planet and the low global temperature that we should be committed to maintaining. I feel that this aspect of the project could be further explored to implement the use of the colour red in the campaign. The animated advert starts with phones piling up on top of each other which communicates the build-up of unused devices. People emotionally attached to their previous phones would be more keen to donate a phone with sentimental value to charity rather than a recycling company directly. By establishing a clear and organised recycling system in charity shops, disposing of unused mobile devices becomes easier even for the busiest people because it's common to find them in every area of a city.

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Beautifully illustrated kids book aims to raise awareness of climate change

Danish green energy firm Ørsted and Wieden + Kennedy Amsterdam have created the new book Is This My Home?, which aims to get kids thinking about climate change and features stunning illustrations by Yeji Yun

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Demand a fair trade cell phone

Your mobile phone, computer and game console have a bloody past — tied to tantalum mining, which funds the war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Drawing on his personal story, activist and refugee Bandi Mbubi gives a stirring call to action.

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Transcript of "What's a smartphone made of?"

TED Talk Subtitles and Transcript: As of 2018, there are around 2.5 billion smartphone users in the world. If we broke open all the newest phones and split them into their component parts, that would produce around 85,000 kg of gold, 875,000 of silver, and 40,000,000 of copper. How did this precious cache get into our phones--and can we reclaim it? Kim Preshoff investigates the sustainability of phone production. [TED-Ed Animation by Compote Collective].

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What can save the rainforest? Your used cell phone

The sounds of the rainforest include: the chirps of birds, the buzz of cicadas, the banter of gibbons. But in the background is the almost-always present sound of a chainsaw, from illegal loggers. Engineer Topher White shares a simple, scalable way to stop this brutal deforestation — that starts with your old cell phone.

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Stocks of virgin-mined materials utilized in linear economic flows continue to present enormous challenges. E-waste is one of the fastest growing waste streams, and threatens to grow into a global problem of unmanageable proportions. An effective form of management of resource recycling and environmental improvement is available, in the form of extraction and purification of precious metals taken from waste streams, in a process known as urban mining. In this work, we demonstrate utilizing real cost data from e-waste processors in China that ingots of pure copper and gold could be recovered from e-waste streams at costs that are comparable to those encountered in virgin mining of ores. Our results are confined to the cases of copper and gold extracted and processed from e-waste streams made up of recycled TV sets, but these results indicate a trend and potential if applied across a broader range of e-waste sources and metals extracted. If these results can be extended to other metals and countries, they promise to have positive impact on waste disposal and mining activities globally, as the circular economy comes to displace linear economic pathways.

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Have you ever thought about how much CO2 you’re using when you boil a kettle, change a baby’s nappy or buy a bottle of wine? The things we do and buy every day can add up to create a LOT of additional CO2.

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in the UK alone, people are holding on to an estimated 76.8 million unused phones.

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When you get a new smartphone, be sure to dispose of the old one responsibly. Do your bit by learning more about mobile phone recycling with Tesco Mobile.

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I like how this app creates another level of engagement with the brand. It’d be useful to start thinking about smartphones features and how they can aid in communicating the message. Could I take advantage on the microphone? Speakers, camera?

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This app doesn’t really try to sell a product but promotes the Audi start-stop technology by allowing the user to close (stop) unused apps on the user’s phone. 

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Donate your old phone to children's charity | Little Lives UK

If you've got an old phone lying around, consider donating it to Little Lives UK. We take your old smartphone and help to end child poverty in the UK.

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UK owns £9.4bn worth of unused smartphones - Mobile News Online

CompareMyMobile research claims average UK person has 1.28 unused devices they want to sell UK residents own more than 76.8 million unused handsets worth a whopping £9.4 billion, according to research from CompareMyMobile.com The price comparison site claims that the average selling price of a traded in smartphone is £123.10, and with 60 million phone

UK residents own more than 76.8 million unused handsets worth a whopping £9.4 billion, according to research from CompareMyMobile.com