Selected Press
Project H Design (Anti)Manifesto: A Call To Action For Humanitarian (Product) Design
CORE77
Written by Founder Emily Pilloton and published on design blog Core77, a call to action for humanitarian design, and a mission statement for Project H Design and industrial designers worldwide.
Green Values at Contemporary Furniture Fair
San Francisco Chronicle
By: Zahid Sardar
A review of the International Contemporary Furniture Fair and coverage of Metropolis Magazine’s Make Good and Prosper lectures, including Emily Pilloton’s talk about social activism in product design.
International Dreamer: Emily Pilloton
Map Magazine
A lengthy interview of Emily Pilloton by Australian Map Magazine’s Editor in Chief Carl Lindgren about vision, inspiration, and the future of design.
Project H Delivering Water in Africa with Hippo Rollers
Treehugger
By: Collin Dunn
About 15 million people in Africa are without adequate access to drinking water, and Emily Pilloton is doing something about it. As the founder of Project H Design (and Managing Editor of Inhabitat), she’s been busy proving that design can make a difference with the Hippo Roller project.
Project Leader: Design21 Feature
Design21 Social Design Network
By: Kate Andrews
Prior to her forthcoming trips to South Africa and Uganda for Project H initiatives, Kate Andrews caught up with Emily Pilloton for DESIGN 21 to talk about Project H Design and Pilloton’s ambition to bring a bigger social conscience to product design.
Project H Design: Initiatives for Humanity, Habitats, Health and Happines
Treehugger
by Lloyd Alter
Ted Nordhaus said “to a hammer, the whole world looks like a nail”. I responded “I am an architect and to me, the world looks like a big design problem”. That’s why I love the idea of Project H Design, “a charitable organization supporting product design initiatives for humanity, habitats, health, and happiness.”- We all have our particular talents and capabilities, and we can all contribute, whether you are a hammer or an architect or a doctor or a plumber, you can effect change…..
Video Interview with Project H’s Emily Pilloton from the Greener Gadgets Conference
Good Clean Tech (a PC Magazine Blog)
On the floor at the Greener Gadgets conference, we couldn’t help but notice Project H’s impressive spread. The organization showed a table full of cool humanitarian and green-tech devices, including a hand crank for the OLPC XO laptop, a slew of solar-powered flashlights, a water-purifying drinking straw, and an army of pollution-detecting robot dogs and ducks.
H is for Hippo: Sponsor a Hippo Roller through Project H
Inhabitat
…H is for Humanity, Habitats, Health, Habitats, and HIPPO! Project H, an organization that promotes, inspires, and delivers humanitarian product design, is funding 50 Hippo Rollers for a series of 17 villages in Kgautswane in Northeastern South Africa…..
Project H
GOOD Magazine blog
By: Morgan Clendaniel
….We’d like to tell you a little about Project H Design, a great new website launched by Emily Pilloton (Full disclosure: Emily is also an occasional GOOD contributor). Project H archives socially-conscious design solutions, hosts competitions to create new designs, and works with communities to help them find designs to help them solve their problems…..
On A Roll
ReadyMade Magazine blog
By: Julia Cosgrove…
My friend (and forthcoming ReadyMade contributor) Emily Pilloton, the managing editor of green design site Inhabitat, recently unveiled her new initiative, Project H Design, a charitable organization dedicated to humanitarian industrial design. In other words, design that actually makes a difference in the lives of people in need. Her first task? Raising $5,000 to buy 50 Hippo Rollers—wheeled barrels that transport water—for a group of 17 villages in the Kgautswane community of northeast South Africa……
Sponsor a Hippo Roller at Project H Design
Treehgger
By: Lloyd Alter
…A hundred buck donation sends a roller with your name on it to the Kgautswane community of Northeast South Africa. Buy one at Project H; I just did……..
Project H says Put Your Name on a Hippo Roller
Jetson Green
By: Preston Koerner
…I just want to take a quick second to plug a good cause and introduce you to Project H Design, if you haven’t already heard of it. Project H Design was founded by the talented Emily Pilloton, Managing Editor of Inhabitat, as a charitable organization that supports, inspires, and delivers product design initiatives for Humanity, Habitats, Health, and Happiness. Right now, Project H Design is working on a case study with Hippo Roller…….



















