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Jun 20

Designers, Drinks & Social Change (DDSC)

You have been invited to listen in to our first Designers, Drinks & Social Change broadcasted presentation! Our small, intimate group meets monthly with 1-2 guest speakers joining us. The purpose is to communicate as designers on a collaborative level and work together to create change. Tinychat.com will be broadcasted through our... read more →
  • June 20, 2010
  • Eric Benson
  • Uncategorized
Jun 01
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Sustainable Student Farm: Growing Awareness about Organic Healthy Campus Eating

In the fall of 2009, Eric Benson's senior studio class at the University of Illinois embarked on a service learning project to brand and give life to the Sustainable Student Farm that is 100% funded by student fees. The farm is designed to eventually be self-sustaining providing fruits and vegetables to one... read more →
  • June 1, 2010
  • Eric Benson
  • Education
Apr 24

Beyond the Grid System | AIGA response_ability Conference

On Saturday May 15, 2010 the AIGA response_ability Conference (hosted by Bowling Green University) will start in Toledo, OH. Our very own Eric Benson was the acting Sustainability Chair, tasked to make sure print and material decisions reflected the guiding principles of sustainability (and of course here at Re-nourish!) He... read more →
  • April 24, 2010
  • Eric Benson
  • Conferences, Systems thinking
Apr 16

Designers, Drinks and Social Change: The Obsolete Designer Part II

Designers, Drinks & Social Change this month is going to be Series II from the topic: "Are Designers Becoming Obsolete?" Designers, Drinks & Social Change this month is going to be Series II from the topic: "Are Designers Becoming Obsolete?" WHEN: August 19th, 2010 WHERE: http://www.tokbox.com/tiltstudioinc/ddsc TIME: 12am GST, 7pm EST, 6pm CST and... read more →
  • April 16, 2010
  • Eric Benson
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Apr 13

TEDxUIUC + Re-nourish

To all who took a few minutes out of their Saturday morning (in the US) and evening (in the UK/China/etc.) to watch my quick explanation of our site – thank you! It was quite an honor to be asked to participate in such a highly regarded lecture series – TEDx.... read more →
  • April 13, 2010
  • Eric Benson
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Feb 09

Designing the Immaterial

As a university design student “making” was my raison d’etre. It was a ritual to trek up to my studio (in any form of weather) to meet a quota of the somewhat unrealistic number of explorations I aimed to meet daily early on in my career. I felt spiritually satisfied... read more →
  • February 9, 2010
  • Eric Benson
  • Articles
Feb 04

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 technology in so far as absorbing the rapid growth of operating systems, printing methods and design software and applying these... read more →
  • February 4, 2010
  • Eric Benson
  • Articles, Conferences
Jan 11

Design Education: Laying the Foundation for Sustainability

Graphic design education is missing a critical component. Students receive intensive training in many areas, such as foundation, design history, typography, and composition. But where does environmental sustainability fit on this list? At what point on our path as designers do we learn how to be better stewards of our... read more →
  • January 11, 2010
  • Yvette Perullo
  • Articles, Education, Systems thinking
Jun 15

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", 106-pound installation for her graduate thesis exhibition. This was done to help the everyday citizen visualize how much direct mail... read more →
  • June 15, 2009
  • Eric Benson
  • Articles, Exhibitions, Research, Systems thinking
May 25

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 on me that warm summer evening that everything I had previously created and in the future will design would end... read more →
  • May 25, 2009
  • Eric Benson
  • Articles, Systems thinking
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