Sugarcane
Sugar is the evaporated and crystallized extract from the stalk of the sugarcane plant and, although it is an important source of bio fuels, it is not a material one would think of as the starting point for a product design. Designer Emiliano Godoy, however, saw it as an opportunity based on several characteristics of one of its by-products: sugar. Godoy first noticed sugar’s potential as a material for making impermanent products in 2003, when studying at Brooklyn’s Pratt Institute. Godoy, who grew up in Mexico City, found inspiration in the traditional Mexican confection called calaverita de azucar to conjure up his thesis project, Sweet Disposable.
The calaverita, a skull made entirely of sugar, is created to celebrate the Mexican ...
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