Icebreaker - transparency and traceability in garment production

NZ company, Icebreaker has developed a system which allows the consumer to trace their garment  to the batch of merino wool which the garment is composed of to introduce transparency and traceability into its production. This gives customers assurance that their garment was made ethically with integrity. A nine digit "Baacode" is attached to the inner seam of the garment which the consumer can then enter on Icebreaker's website. From here, they can trace the fibre in their garment from the sheep stations in New Zealand's South Island through to the factories that knitted, dyed and sewed the garment. 

As great as this is, Icebreaker mentions that this process was costly and difficult to implement. Although the company has always had a paper trail allowing them to trace their garments back to sheep stations where the fibres originated, making this information available for customers online required a lot of data entry and purpose built software. This must be updated daily.

Icebreaker. (2015). Frequently Asked Questions. Retrieved from http://baacode.icebreaker.com/site/baacode/faqs.html?language=en on July 31, 2015.

Charitable Companies Research

Bit cheeky using the One Percent Collective website, but, i think it is a really good example of a website being simple and compelling at saying "This is what our organisation does" and "this is why you should support us". Earthlink's website needs to be condensed and simplified on the Splashpage and then organised more dynamically through rest of the pages regarding the indepth running of the company

Team photo development

Team photo

Today we took some photos in the studio to use as our team photo.

Inspiration for Team Photo - Photos by Romain Laurent

Schedules to the agreement

Collaboration Agreement - Schedules to the agreement

Earthlink Team 2

Schedule 1:

How do we, as a team, define collaboration?

Discussion

Group harmony

compromise – able to propose ideas but also meld and connect them with others ideas

adaptability

flexibility

task delegation

Schedule 2:

What are you expectations around grades?

They will equate to the amount of work put into the project.

What learning do you want to get out of the project?

approaching and having a conversation with a client

how to interact and work with a client

the different work process in the industry vs studying

What values do you bring?

Sensitivity, informed awareness of the company and its issues.

Respect to the clients and the members of the group.

Schedule 3:

Process

How do we recognize and harness difference in our learning and working styles?

We will set weekly goals at our Monday team meetings and check on their status during Wednesday class.

Time

12hrs a week. We expect equal collaboration. We will meet once a week on Mondays.

Communication

We will communicate during our Monday meetings and via our facebook group.

How will decisions be made?

Collectively, pros and cons assessment through discussion.

Disagreements will be resolved with empathic discussions

Critique

Make sure new work creates individually is shared amongst the group and feedback it given. This will be done physically during our monday meetings.

We will evaluate our peers work effort by considering their work ethic and contribution to the group. Engagement with other terms will be open and collaboration would be considered if it was beneficial for us and the clients.

Money and Resources

We will decided as the project progresses. We are mostly students so we would only contribute what money we can. We would try to keep the contributions equal. Significant purchases would be split evenly.