FairTrade Designers (FTD) is an initiative of three Danish industrial designers Pil Bredahl, Liselotte Risell and myself. We founded FTD in 2007 and started our first project in South China later the same year. In 2009-10 we worked with wood in Ghana and in 20211-12 with stones in Zimbabwe. During 2023 and 2024, FTD has collaborated with artisans in Bethlehem at the Westbank, and in 2025 we will resume collaboration with Huset ved Havet on a jewelry project in Zimbabwe. We develop products and concepts, and do workshops, teaching and developing work in the co-operating countries.
The goal is to use design as levearge for environment, social, culturel and economic development. The power of consumption!
See a selection of FairTrade Designers products here and read more about our projects at www.fairtradedesigners.com
‘Fair & Square’ – HOMEmade pillows in hemp with embroidery – from Yunnan Province in Southchina
WORM3 and WORM5 – handcarved bowl in FSC certificed wood from Ghana.
Wedding Soles – Hand and Homemade in Yunnan Province i Southchina.
Integrete – handcarved bowl in FSC certified wood from Ghana.
Pot, handmade stone bowl made in black Springstone by local sculptors in Chitungwiza Artcentre, located outside Harare, Zimbabwe.
3 ‘collars’ i different materials. Shown at ‘Bæredygtig Mode’ Koldinghus ’09, where FTD were invited to exhibit.
Butterfly designed by FTD and produced in Bethlehem, sold by Bethlehem Fair Trade Artisans.
Photo from news paper article in JyllandsPosten 2009.
Video from FairTrade Designers first trip to Yunnan Province in South China. Here we had partnered up with Threads of Yunnan, who had an office in Kunming and worked with groups of minority women in the rural villages in the mountains. FairTrade Designers got to know the women during workshops in their villages and after returning to Denmark, we developed new products using the local hamp material decorated with hand embroidery, as the women had high skills in this and master it because it is part of their clothing.
Hejsa!
Har fuldstændig forelsket mig i Worm og Worm5 skålene, men kan ikke rigtig finde ud af, om de er fremstillet i størrer mængder med videresalg for øje. Kan du hjælpe mig?
Charlotte