Live from the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design/Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) CONNECTING ’07 World Design Congress, Ecolect announced the launch of the first free sustainable materials library for the design community. The innovative site enables professionals in such fields as product design, architecture, and graphic design to quickly find and research a growing range of sustainable materials online at www.ecolect.net.

Created by Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) graduates and award-winning entrepreneurs, Matt Grigsby and Joe Gebbia, Ecolect was created to save designers time and money by answering three important questions: where do I find sustainable materials, what makes them sustainable, and who else is using them and how.