Whether you're a first-year or only two semesters away from that hard-earned degree in your hands, packing for college is never easy.

Laundry drying outside in Istanbul's Tarlabaşı neighborhood.

Air-drying clothing is definitely the cheapest, and especially the most eco-friendly way of drying your clothes; no energy or machinery is needed.

Photo: Method

Guest contributor Adam Lowry is the founder of Method.

I blog here about design as intention, which is to say that if you broaden your design intention to include social and environmental factors, your designs can become transformational. Examining typical laundry packaging from this design perspective provides interesting insight.