If you think "green design" can't be appealing, works by a group of English designers together with their Thai counterparts currently on display at the "Everything Forever Now" exhibition at TCDC will make you think again.

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- Elderly on the Move by the Open Space group in Pathum Thani.

- Air Bike by EADS, a bike made of nylon.

- Plumen, an energysaving designer light bulb by Hulger.

The works, some 30 or so items, are a response of designers to the environmental crisis we are facing and they have proved that eco-design has gone beyond the "3R" concept _ reduce, reuse, recycle. Some of the designers, with concern for the increasing deficiency of resources like wood and fuels, go for something with longevity, not just resorting to alternative resources.

Pichit Virankabuta, TCDC event and exhibition director, said that "to live with the green" is the new trend to follow. Designers are challenging themselves with the most they can make out of something and the least it will impact on the world.

"The designs we chose to bring here, not only are they concerned for the environment, they are trying to present something new. They are fresh and inspiring. They are showing that eco can also be sexy," said Henrietta Thompson, the exhibition curator and the author of Remake It: Home a DIY design guide employing good design for a resourceful waste-free lifestyle.

The exhibition, a collaboration between the TCDC and the British Council, is divided into four different categories.

"Materials" features designs that search for new materials to replace deficient ones. For example, the Air Bike by EADS (European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company), a bicycle made using a unique manufacturing process that literally grows a product from a fine powder of metal, nylon or carbon-reinforced plastics. The Air Bike is made using a process called additive layer manufacturing (ALM), which builds layers upon layers of nylon until it forms a 3D model.

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