Sustainable Gifting Upcycle, Hand-Make & Get Creative with Zero-Waste Presents & Packages

Sustainable Gifting is a beautiful, creative guide to gifting, bringing to it ideas for crafting, cooking and baking and the perfect wrapping arts.

Michelle Mackintosh is on a mission to encourage people to reconnect with each other with thoughtful, creative and sustainable gifts. Put together with Michelle's beautiful aesthetic, Sustainable Gifting brings back the art of crafting packages with love and care.

Containing ideas for sustainable gifts like potted plants grown from seeds, baked goods, beautiful handmade journals and clever tote bags, this thoughtful guide to gifting also features self-made and recycled packaging ideas from delightful labels, string ties, wrapping paper, cards, origami boxes and reused containers.

With projects that are easy to achieve with step-by-step instructions and templates, Sustainable Gifting will inspire everyone to think sustainably about creating zero-waste gifts with love.

Michelle Mackintosh is a Melbourne-based book designer and illustrator with a passion for mixing up the discarded with the new, and collaging vintage, cute and modern aesthetics into something truly unique. She has designed dozens of books on a wide range of topics, from cookbooks and craft to city guides and diaries. She has illustrated six books written by her husband Steve Wide, and has worked on books for authors as diverse as Beci Orpin, Antonia Kidman, Margaret Fulton, Louise Fulton Keats, John Marsden, Gabriel Gate, Jane Rocca and Pip Lincolne.