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Good Looking Esplanade Da:ns & Archifest Tote Bag

It is a definitely great pleasure to work with Esplanade and Singapore Institute of Architects on these beautiful tote bags for their upcoming events. Here are the bags we made and you probably can grab one in their events. Da:ns bags are on sales and Archifest bags are FREE. For more information on their events, check out

Da:ns festival - http://www.dansfestival.com/
Archifest Singapore - http://www.archifest.sg/





We are a group of driven people who love to make tote bags for your events and your company. How to contact us? Drop us an email (sales@bdiff.com.sg) or call us at 91881753 (Albert).

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We're in Sutra Magazine

B-Diff is featured in Sutra Magazine (Oct 2009 Issue)
The subject of the page is "Creativity with hearts". :)
Sutra, thanks. We appreciate it.





From above for B-Diff Bag :
2) Bag ("Travel" Concept) - $18.90 - Get it Now !
6) Bag ("Bird & Tree" Concept) - $22.80 - Get it Now !

New Blank Tote - A84

We have just added one new blank tote is added on our website, check it out at here.
It looks great in its dimensions. Classy and plainly fantastic.

Width : 15 inches
Height : 15 inches

Base : 3 inches

Straps : 21 inches

Price : SGD 10.00

The more we say it, the less we waste

DID YOU KNOW?

* About 2.5 billion plastic bags are used every year in Singapore. That's about 2,500 bags used per family per year.

* Plastic bags are made from oil, a finite resource. If each family uses one less plastic bag a week, Singapore could save 50 million bags each year.

* By using reusable bags during our shopping trips, we will use fewer plastic bags and help to conserve the earth's resources.

* Plastic bags thrown away as litter, dirty our public places, rivers and canals, and may even clog up drains, and this would lead to stagnant water and mosquito breeding.

* Plastic bags litter despoils nature trails, beaches and even chokes up mangroves and poses a threat to marine lives.

Bring You Own Bag

We're on Urban again!

Ever Green- Go green with a fashionable yet eco-friendly bag. IMRAN JALAL has six suggestions.

From supermarkets such as Cold Storage to aesthetic clinics such as The Sloane Clinic, everyone seems to have an eco bag these days. Just how earth-friendly are they?

Urban ran six good-looking green bags by Vaidehi Shah, a communications executive of the Singapore Environment Council, to see if they hit the (green) mark.

The non-profit, non-government organisation awards the Green Label to eco-frienldy brands.

Shah notes that just because organic materials are used does not mean a product is eco-friendly. "The dilemma with cotton is that it takes up agricultural land while synthetic material polyester does not," she says.

"You need to consider the whole life cycle of the product from the way the materials are harvested to its production process and even the level of wastage during its displosal."


B-DIFF
The silkscreen-printed shoppers from this year-old brand are fast gaining cachet. Between 80 and 100 of its cotton, canvas or polyprophylene (one of the most commonly recycled materials) carriers with artsy prints are sold each month.

Brand founders Albert Ser and Diff Lim, both 31, try to use natural dyes from tree bark, wood, berries and nuts as much as possible.

Seamstresses cut down on wastage by using leftover fabrics to sew handles or inner pockets. This month, it released the Birds and Trees series.

Shah : Simple, practical and beautifully designed. The all-natural materials and vegetable dyes make this brand a great eco-conscious buy.






Above piece extracted from Urban paper published on 24th July 2009.

We are truly grateful to Mr.Vaidehi Shah for his positive comments. A big Thank you!

Bird Tote Poster

Owl Tote Out Now

Owl totes are now available at B-Diff online store. The bags are very limited, grab one while stock lasts. Dimension is 13.5 W X 17 H X 3.5 B. Priced at $22.80.

Find B-Diff at Esplanade Shop

Esplanade shop is now one of B-Diff local retailers.

Esplanade Shop(Nearby City Hall MRT)
#02-02, Esplanade

Tel: 65 6828 8397

Operating hours: 10am - 10pm (Sun-Thur) / 10am - 10pm (Fri/Sat)

Bird totes are out !

Finally, our long awaited B-diff "Bird" tote bags are finally out!

We spent months and put in alot of efforts to design and make this "Bird" series and our babies are finally born. The bags are limited, very very limited. So grab one while stock lasts!

Speaking of bird, did you notice there is one nest printed inside the bag ? It's cool, isnt it?

Lastly, there is one little wish of us on our customers - Do make sure of the bags.

HK to charge customers for shopping bag

HONG KONG -- Registered retailers in Hong Kong are required to charge customers not less than HK$0.5 (US$0.06) for each shopping bag from July 7 this year, Hong Kong's top environmental official said here Sunday.

Edward Yau, secretary for the Environment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government, made the remarks while officiating the launch ceremony of the "Environmental Levy Scheme on Plastic Shopping Bags" publicity campaign.

He called on people to take their own bags instead of using plastic shopping bags, saying that he was confident that Hong Kong will be able to reduce the local consumption of plastic shopping bags by billions within a year.

"In Hong Kong, the public is becoming more conscious of protecting the environment and we are striving to keep it better for our next generation," he said.


(news from www.scmp.com)

Countries or cities taking action on plastic bags

These are the countries or cities say "NO" on plastic bags:

Africa :
Botswana, Cameroon, Eritrea, Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zanzibar

Americas :
Brazil, Canada, United States of America

Asia Pacific :
Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Nepal, New Zealand, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Singapore, Taiwan

Europe :
Channel Islands, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Holland, Ireland, Italy, Scotland, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Truly made in Singapore, Truly for Singapore lovers!

New ballet bags are out!

4 new designs of ballet tote bags are out.
They are all limited edition and beautifully printed.
Priced at $22.80.
Why wait? Grab one while stock lasts. Click here to purchase.

3R (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle)

Top Five things to do on Earth Day '09

Do you guys know what is the top thing to do on Earth Day 2009?

Answer : Carry reusable shopping bags

#2 : Ride a bike to work
#3 : Reuse food and water containers
#4 : Help plant trees
#5 : Save gas

Start using b-diff tote bags from now onwards. :)

Bird Series Coming Soon...

Find us at new store.

Anthropology Scarlet Hotel
(Nearby Chinatown MRT Station/Maxwell Hawker Center)
Scarlet Hotel, #01-06/07 33 
Erskine Road,
Singapore 179103.
Tel: 6467 2663

Anthropology Raffles City
(at Raffles City above City Hall MRT Station)
252 North Bridge Road,
#B1-77/78,
Singapore 179103.
Tel: 6336 3655

 

Decorhut 
(at The Central above Clarke Quay MRT Station)

6 Eu Tong Sen Street, 
#04-73 The Central, 
Singapore 059817. 
Tel: 6224 2008

Bdiff on Expat Living Magazine April 2009 Issue

We are on press again. :)

Thank you to Expat Living's putting us on their magazine.

New Packaging

Our new packagings looking good, arent they? They are now even more earthy and lovely. :)

NEW!! More blank totes available.

We have added 4 new blank totes for your selection.
The new totes are in great shape and get one while stocks last.

Supermarkets are not providing plastic bags in future and bring one along when you do shopping. Prices from $9. 

  13.5 W x 15.5 H 

13.5 W x 15.5 H 

14 W x 20 H 

13 W x 17 H x 5 Base

Get it from http://www.bdiff.com.sg/blank.php 

"Bring Your Own Bag." Edward Norton

Star urging public to bring your own bag. Stop using plastic bag.

B-Diff Iphone Wallpapers

Special Bag of Your Loved Ones!

We are more than happy to see you carry your love around...

Send us the picture, and we get it printed on our bags. 

Love is all around...

Visit Us At Decorhut

B-Diff store at Decorhut 
(at The Central above Clarke Quay MRT Station)

6 Eu Tong Sen Street, 
#04-73 The Central, 
Singapore 059817. 
Tel: 6224 2008
Operating hours: 10:30am - 9:30pm daily

HK launched Every Day No Plastic Bag Day campaign

About 2,000 stores in Hong Kong has stopped handing out plastic bags to customers starting from March 3.  The campaign, announced by the association on Feb. 18, with the aim to encourage further reduction of plastic bag usage across the city. About 2,000 stores of 18 major retailers will be involved. 

The association expected that this program would help reach the industry’s voluntary target of reducing plastic bag distribution by more than 400 million at the participating retailers. This will represent a 50 percent decrease from the 820 million plastic bags distributed in 2005, the baseline on which the voluntary target was set. 

 "The retail industry is confident that the launch of 'Every Day No Plastic Bag' will further reduce usage of plastic bags significantly," Caroline Mak, chairman of the association, said they will continue to encourage other retailers to join the program to help protect Hong Kong's environment. According to the Environmental Protection Department of Hong Kong, voluntary efforts helped reduce 150 million plastic bags in 2006.

This green trend has been started in most european countries for many years and it is now in Asian countries. Singapore is believed to be the next one. 

Get a tote bag now and follow this green trend, help to save the world and make it greener!

Single Bag Order

Many people wanted to know if we do single bag customisation, Yes, we do.

Choose your favourite blank tote here at http://www.bdiff.com.sg/blank.php

The price for a standard bag (Item No. A33 or A36)  

Print with your design

(A4, Non Photo) - $24

(A4, Photo) - $28

(A3, Non Photo) - $32

(A3, Photo) - $38

Just send us your artwork, and we'll do the rest for you :)

Banner Bag from British Council

By turning the used banner into something useful, British Council came up an idea of

making tote bags out of their banners.  They contacted b-diff for this wonderful project.

Look at the incredible beautiful tote bag we made for British Council.

We welcome any similar business, just give us a call and we will work it out for you!

Carry It. Help Save The World.

Do your part to save the world,  reuse your tote bag.

Choose B-Diff because we "carry" the same big heart. :P

Design Tote Bags For Your Company

We help you make tote bags for your company or for your business.

Simply tell us your desired bag size, kind, material, printing method (heat transfer or silkscreen), or even any wild ideas, we'll work the magic out for you!

All you need to do is to fill out the form at Bag Customisation Form.

And our sales person will contact you very shortly.

New blank black totes !

Now, you have wider variety of blank totes to choose from.

2 new sizes of thick canvas tote were just added onto our website,

they are even bigger and thicker material. 

Even better if you want to put your design or photo on the bags.

Check out the totes here.

Black "Grand Jeté" Tote Bag Added

Now, we have black "Grand Jeté" tote bag just added into our ballet series.

If you need something big to hold your belongings, get a L size, it could fit your A3 artpiece board!

Get it from b-diff online store.

New Design Added!

A new design for ballet theme tote bag is added. Last but not least...

Available in B-Diff Online Shop, Starting at $18 and on, click here to find out more.

Say NO To Plastic Bags

You may not realise it, but each day, nearly every one of us brings a pest into the home. They are small, mostly pink, blue or white in colour, adaptable to land and water, and have caused the deaths of countless animals and fish around the world. 

This lethal monster is none other than the plastic bag, a flimsy everyday item that we simply cannot do without, yet has been the scourge of many cities, even countries, which have rallied to impose taxes or ban them altogether. 

The global war against plastic bags — something that most people use for only a short while but takes hundreds of years to break down — is picking up steam, most notably in San Francisco, which last month became the first American city to ban non-biodegradable plastic bags. Shoppers there now must use paper bags when they buy groceries, or carry their own bags from home. The move came after weeks of intense lobbying from environmentalists. 

San Francisco joins a select group that has taken a major step forward in saving the earth, including Rwanda, Bangladesh, South Africa, Mumbai and Bhutan which have already imposed their own ban. Paris will join the list at the end of this year, with the rest of France following suit by 2010. 

Why, then, is Singapore, a much smaller city and one that has serious aspirations of making its mark as a champion of green technology, not following suit in a big way? 

A National Environment Agency (NEA) study revealed that Singaporeans use about 2.5 billion plastic bags each year — the equivalent of 19 million kilogrammes of waste. 

Ever since a heated debate on plastic bags was sparked off in this newspaper some two years ago, the awareness of the problem has gone up somewhat. A national campaign to encourage the use of reusable bags has taken off well with more than 100,000 such bags sold at many major supermarkets. 

More significantly, today marks Singapore's first Bring Your Own Bag Day, where more than 200 supermarkets will encourage customers to use reusable bags. That it is not just a one-off campaign, but one that will take place every first Wednesday of the month, is also laudable. 

But we can do better. We need to speed up the push to bring down the use of plastic bags here. 

The Government certainly believes enough in Singaporeans' changing attitudes towards environment issues, seeing how it is investing millions of dollars to study clean energy and launching eco-friendly flats in Punggol. 

But time and again, whenever the plastic bag problem surfaces, we get the same message from the lawmakers, that it prefers not to impose legislation, but rather work with voluntary schemes and allow consumers and the market to take the lead. 

Encouragingly, the door to legislation is not fully closed, as NEA chief executive Lee Yuen Hee said last week that he had not ruled out making it a law if the plastic bag situation does not improve here. 

Then the question is, when is that breaking point for such a move to happen? What would it take for lawmakers here to introduce a law in Parliament? I believe that if we continue to take the ground-up route, we can never expect any significant progress to be made in a country where people have grown up expecting plastic bags to be given to us free. 

Realistically, banning plastic bags completely is not completely feasible, given our heavy dependence on them, be it at the wet market or to contain garbage at home. 

A plastic tax is perhaps the best way to make consumers think twice about whether they really need that bag when they buy their pack of cigarettes, a newspaper or a loaf of bread. Such a tax is already taking off in many countries around the world. If you're out shopping in Taiwan or Ireland, be prepared to fork out anywhere from five to 20 cents for a plastic bag. 

Last June, Ikea stores in the United Kingdom started charging its customers 10 pence (30 cents) per bag, a move which the furniture giant said could cut down plastic bag usage by a whopping 20 million by this year. Its two stores here recently became the first retail stores to start charging for plastic bags. 

How Singapore can do one better is to promise that every single cent collected from its plastic bag tax goes towards green effort, be it for more recycling centres, running environmental programmes in schools, or to various non-profit groups such as the Environmental Challenge Organisation and the Singapore Environment Council. 

You do the maths — a nominal tax of, say, five cents multiplied by 2.5 billion bags would add up to an astonishing $125 million to fund meaningful causes. But until then, let us try to cut down our usage in whatever small way we can. 

With April 22 being Earth Day — a special day to celebrate the Earth and remind ourselves of its scarce resources — each of us can do our part by refusing that plastic bag when we go shopping, or even better, bring along a reusable bag. 

That would be the best present you could ever give to Mother Nature. And it's much better than having to deal with yet another law breathing down our necks. 


- TODAY/so

Happy Chinese New Year

Timezone chinese new year little non woven tote bags are made by B-diff.

Get one from any Timezone outlets around the town.

Dance On Right Now Tote Bag

Ballet concept tote bags are now available at B-Diff Store.

A great gift idea for those love green and dance.

No Overcharge On Delivery.

Be An Artist.

Be an artist. Have your design print on our tote bags.

Submit your artwork to us (sales@bdiff.com.sg), and tell us your idea, we work it out for you!

B-Diff Wallpaper

Simple as it is. Visit B-Diff.

BYOB (Bring Your Own Bag)

The environmental friendly activities are not as active in the East as in America and Europe. 

Hence, NEA SingaporeThe National Environment Agency (NEA) together with the Singapore Environment Council (SEC)  launched the first Bring Your Own Bag Day (BYOBD) on 18 April 2007. This is in conjunction with Earth Day 2007 and their purpose is to promote a greener environment.

For those who don't know, BYOBD (Bring Your Own Bag Day) is on every wednesday of the month. If you haven't got one, get one from b-diff.

Make an effort to help the earth. 

Organisation of Illustrators Council Singapore Tote Bag

Silkscreening on b-diff tote bags are available at MAAD every first weekend of the month.

We simply love the designs by organisation of illustrators council.  There are a lot of new designs to choose from, get down to MAAD market at Red Dot Museum next month if you miss it this month.

Happy silkscreening! 

Design Your Own Tote Bag

Things that personalized mean a lot to you.

If you have some ideas in mind and you want to make something special for yourself or your loved ones.

Pick a blank tote from www.bdiff.com.sg, and submit your designs to us by email (sales@bdiff.com.sg). Do it now and get your own bag with your design. :)

Sorry I'm Late ! Tote Bag

Sometimes it's just hard to say this. 

So let the bag speaks for you!

e-mail us if you like this!

New designs - Ballet Series

You don't have to be a real ballerina to carry this range.

As long as you like dancing, this bag is made for you. 

Price from SGD 22.80. Buy it here.

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It's new year 2009. 

All the best wishes from B-Diff to everyone of you.