Designbox is a global innovation house working with clients around the world and in our own back yard of Raleigh NC to turn great ideas into impactful products, brands and experiences. We use design to create change, focusing on sustainable initiatives, social impact and global cultural understanding through collaboration. We have a core mission of sustainability and are working on innovative, ground breaking materials and processes throughout every design. We have extensive reach in sustainable materials use, manufacturing processes and transparent supply chain methods to inspire circular loop design and production. Our work with companies incorporates a philosophy we share with them: improving communities and bettering lives and earth health in long lasting physical and emotional ways. In fostering Design Innovation and Inventive Culture, a core belief of Designbox is the power of creative community as both an economic force and a lifestyle enhancement. As community leaders, Designbox has enabled solutions to citywide challenges through creative process and ideation facilitation. Many of these challenges have involved politically or culturally sensitive topics. Designbox plans public forums and facilitates a creative process amongst decision makers and the public, resulting in powerful consensus building and positive public impact. The Designbox team works on sustainability projects, manufacturing and fair trade, and base of pyramid efforts with communities around the world. We develop hard goods and soft goods products in sporting goods and health and well being lifestyle markets. We are also on the forefront of developing methods of use for ocean plastic as a replacement to virgin plastics in products.