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About Eric Benson

Eric is an Associate Professor of Graphic Design at the University of Illinois. He has worked as a professional designer for such companies as Razorfish and Texas Instruments. His research as a professor explores how design can be sustainable and consequently how to teach it. Eric has a BFA in Industrial/Graphic design from the University of Michigan and an MFA in Design from the University of Texas.

Sustainable Design Education Rethought: The Case for Eco-Modernism

Article abstract: In the 1990’s Graphic Design educators were faced with an almost overnight pedagogical dilemma: designing for the Internet. Up until that point Graphic Design educators were challenged by... read more →
  • February 4, 2010
  • Eric Benson
  • Articles, Conferences

Reevaluating What We Make: A Call for Eco Modernism

Yvette Perullo, for her MA at the New England School of Art and Design at Suffolk University, collected direct mail for four months with her family to produce a 6'2",... read more →
  • June 15, 2009
  • Eric Benson
  • Articles, Exhibitions, Research, Systems thinking

Collaboration is the Key For a Green Future

Four years ago I noticed a number of beautiful direct mail pieces that I spent countless hours designing in a trash bin near a bank of apartment mailboxes. It dawned... read more →
  • May 25, 2009
  • Eric Benson
  • Articles, Systems thinking

Why a sustainable design revolution must and will happen. Part III: Sustainable printing and the graphic designer

"The single most important problem is our misguided focus on identifying the single most important problem." - Jared Diamond, Professor of Geography at UCLA. (From the book "Collapse: How Societies Choose... read more →
  • April 20, 2009
  • Eric Benson
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Why a sustainable design revolution must and will happen. Part II: Sustainable ink and the graphic designer

"Sustainable design gives an authentic value to the consumer." - Katarina Graffman (Ethnographer) In the second portion of this continuing essay, I turn my focus to another integral component to the... read more →
  • April 15, 2009
  • Eric Benson
  • Articles, Systems thinking

Why a sustainable design revolution must and will happen. Part I: Sustainable paper and the graphic designer

"There is no business to be done on a dead planet."  –David Brower, Sierra Club Foundation Founder We've heard a lot lately about global warming and its connected dangers posed... read more →
  • April 10, 2009
  • Eric Benson
  • Systems thinking, Uncategorized
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