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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... read more →
  • January 11, 2010
  • Yvette Perullo
  • Articles, Education, Systems thinking

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 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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