twentytwentyone are delighted to announce that Bags of Goodwill raised £6010 for the Fairtrade Foundation.
The Fairtrade Foundation is thrilled with the result and will invest funds in their new project called 'Fairtrade Schools'. "Aiming to raise awareness and understanding of Fairtrade to the next generation of Fairtrade supporters."
twentytwentyone wish to extend our sincere gratitude to the designers and our supporters for making this event possible. The project received incredible support with the fusion of design and responsible manufacturing and materials produced stimulating results. The fact that thirty-nine cotton bags with a basic cost of £1 each raised £6000 is a testimony towards the creative quality of the designs.
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Alexander Taylor
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Alfredo Haberli
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Andrew Stafford
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Arik Levy
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Barber Osgerby
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Damian Williamson
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Doshi Levien
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Eero Aarnio
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El Ultimo Grito
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Ella Doran
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Enzo Mari
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Gijs Bakker
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Gitta Gschwendtner
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Giulio Cappellini
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Harri Koskinen
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Ineke Hans
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Jasper Morrison
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Jerszy Seymour
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Kenneth Grange
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Konstantin Grcic
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Lucienne Day
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Marcel Wanders
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Mark Holmes
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Michael Marriott
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Michael Sodeau
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Michael Young
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Naoto Fukasawa
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Norway Says
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Patrick Norguet
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Pearson Lloyd
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Robin Day
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Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec
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Ross Lovegrove
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Sam Hecht & Kim Colin
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Sebastian Wrong
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Shin Azumi
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Tom Dixon
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Tomoko Azumi
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Tord Boontje
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Opening night
The opening party and the exhibition received a fantastic response from the people who attended.
We would like to thank our sponsors, the Fairtrade Foundation and George Alagia for his opening speech, the designers, bidders and everyone who visited the exhibition. |
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Media coverage
We are very pleased to have received such a fantastic response from the media.
Please scroll along to see examples of publications and blog sites that have covered the event, such as Design Week, Telegraph Magazine, Evening Standard, Wallpaper, Designboom and more. |
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Telegraph magazine 15 September '07 During the London Design Festival p 68
'With the Italian superbrand Cappellini, twentytwentyone is exhibiting and auctioning a collection of organic cotton bags featuring designs by 40 luminaries inluding Robin Day (above left), Marcel Wanders and Eero Aarnio. The exhibition (at River St, September 19-25, with the auction on the last day) is called Bags of Goodwill and proceeds go to the Fairtrade Foundation.'
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Evening Standard 12 September '07 Ahead of the times p. 20-21
'Bags of Goodwill is at twentytwentyone, 18c River St EC1. Forty international star designers have decorated Fairtrade organic shopping bags - from veterans Robin and Lucienne Day and Pierre Paulin to youngsters Doshi Levien, as well as design celebrities marcel Wanders and Giulio Cappellini.
Bid for the design you love and have one of the coolest handbags around.' |
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Design Week 13 September '07 London Design Festival p. 16
'twentytwentyone will showcase Bags of Goodwill at its warehouse showroom where 40 leading designers, including kenneth Grange, Ross Lovegrove, Shin Azumi, El Ultimo Grito and Marcel Wanders, have created a design for a blank organic cotton bag.
The highly personalised results reflect thoughts on sustainability, functionality or the designer's own work and philosophies. The bags will be auctioned to raise funds for the Fairtrade Foundation.' |
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Designboom Bags of Goodwill at London Design Festival
'An exhibition and auction to raise awareness and funds for the Fairtrade Foundation organised by twentytwentyone. They will show one-off creations by 40 world-renowned designers to be held at their River St showroom.
Unique bags will be available to purchase via sealed bid. The highest bidder will be contacted at the close of the exhibition. (The event is supported by Cappellini).' |
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Wallpaper Bags of Goodwill, London
'Amidst the vogue of all things eco-friendly, some remarkably forward thinking and imaginative projects have surfaced with not a scrap of hemp or raffia in sight. One of our favourite London stores, twentytwentyone, sent out blank Fairtrade, organic certified cotton bags to 40 of the world's greatest designers, asking them to decorate or deface as they saw fit. the only condition being that each reflected their own design philosophy and had consideration towards responsible design.
The aim of the project to raise as much money as possible to the Fairtrade Foundation by auctioning off the bags throughout the London Design Festival, from twentytwentyone's showroom on River St and given both the calibre of design talent involved and the interesting range of creations, a small fortune should be raised.
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It's clearly a testament to how much designers are striving to incorporate ethical and eco-aware practices into their work, and also in how much esteem twentytwentyone is regarded around the design community that contributors are of such rank: Naoto Fukasawa, Konstantin Grcic, Giulio Cappellini and the seemingly ubiquitous Ross Lovegrove to name a sprinkling of the people who've participated.' |
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Hippyshopper Bags of Goodwill from twentytwentyone
'Cutting-edge London design collective twentytwentyone has come up with an attractive solution to the plastic bag problem, with a new set of tote bag designs from 40 world-renowned designers.
When the owners decided to stop using polythene bags in their shop, they came up with the 'bags of goodwill' idea: They sourced a manufacturer to produce an organic Fairtrade certified bag and asked the designers to decorate them. The bags will then be exhibited during London Design Festival and auctioned with all bids and donations going directly to the Fairtrade Foundation.' |
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New Consumer Bags of Goodwill by Rikke Bruntse-Dahl
'London-based design shop twentytwentyone, is the latet company to come up with a conscientious alternative to the plastic bag.
When the owners decided to stop using polythene bags in their shop, they came up with the "bags of goodwill' idea: They sourced a manufacturer to produce an organic and Fairtrade certified bag and asked 40 world-renowned designers to decorate them. The bags will then be exhibited during London Design Festival and auctioned with all bids and donations going directly to the Fairtrade Foundation.
Even more exlusive than Hindmarch's "I'm not a plastic bag" the bags of goodwill are sure to become a hit with design-loving ethical consumers.' |
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Treehugger Bags of Goodwill by Bonnie Alter on 09.13.2007
'Acknowledging that everyone is getting a little fed up with the 'I am not a plastic bag' phenomenon, we still couldn't igonre these great looking carrier bags. Twentytwentyone, a furniture and design store, has commissioned forty world-renowned furniture and product designers for Finland, Sweden, Germany, France, Japan, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, The Netherlands, Norway and the UK to come up with designs for Fairtrade cotton organic carrier bags. Those participating include El Ultimo Grito, Ella Doran, Jasper Morrison, Lucienne Day, Matthew Hilton, Michael Marriott and Tord Boontje.
The bags will be on display for a week, as part of London Design Festival and then be auctioned off. The only criterion for their creation was that the design "reflect their philosophy towards design and make a consideration towards responsible design". The proceeds will go to the Fairtrade Foundation.' |
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Background
twentytwentyone are honoured to launch Bags of Goodwill, an exhibition and auction to raise awareness and funds for the Fairtrade Foundation.
Bags of Goodwill will show one-off creations by 40 world-renowned designers during London Design Festival. 19-25 September. To be held at our River Street showroom, the event is being generously supported by Cappellini.
The unique bags are available to purchase online. The highest bidder will be contacted at the close of the exhibition, with all monies going to the Fairtrade Foundation. |
Information
twentytwentyone wanted to move away from using polythene shop-bags and have sourced a manufacturer to produce Fairtrade and organic certified cotton bag. We consider the bags to be a perfect blank canvas and envisaged a series of commissioned designs to reflect the activities of twentytwentyone. The idea for an auction to raise money for charity was borne out of this concept.
19-25 September
10am - 5pm. (12pm - 5 pm on Sunday 23 September).
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Andrew Stafford
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