Postfossil is a collective of emerging designers, who create objects for the home, thinking about the postfossil reality and putting their objects into the context of resource scarcity. The use of environmentally friendly and renewable resources is only the basis of their work, "fossil" does not only stand for energy sources but also for social behaviour patterns. That’s where the initiators start.
The collections include products that focus on the use of materials; others attempt to reflect everyday – fossil – routines, to reconsider habitual processes. Others deal with the subject ironically. The collections aspire to long life and environmental friendliness, and reflect a responsible use of resources.
The trained industrial designers work in different cities. The collective work happens spontaneously and without a prescribed form. What looks like chaos at first sight is a consciously chosen method. Ideas are transmitted immediately and directly, using blogs. Ideas are dispersed and elaborated as impulses. This has enabled the collective of young designers to establish a way of working across borders which has proven effective and satisfactory for the group.
The design group presented its latest collections at the SaloneSatellite in Milan.
