Project Description: In this project, students designed a poster to address the current state of our food system. The posters are a visual response to Will Allen’s A Good Food Manifesto for America, Michael Pollan’s 7 Rules for Eating and the movie Food, Inc. Will Allen’s manifesto is both a call to action and a challenge to our government leaders to ...
About two years ago, I had lunch with my old friend Hussein from college. After undergrad, he had done a master’s in theology and doctorate in Islamic ...
With help from The Walkabout Foundation, Whirlwind Wheelchair International, who have been designing tough, durable wheelchairs built and used in developing countries since 1979, have delivered ...
The current state of the green interactive space is like that of the Internet before Google. New green apps, like websites in those latter days, are emerging all the time—there’s ...
As a market-based economy, over the past few years we’ve been marking many historic moments here in America. From the biggest debt load in the history of “ever” and accompanying ...
The Sustainable Cotton Project (SCP) is looking for groups of renegade designers to enlist their clients to order Cleaner Cotton TM for promotional T-shirts. SCP has several brands interested ...
It’s been my experience that good designers who commit to sustainability in their practices end up creating work that is not just conceptually innovative, but also, nine times out of ...
Last week, Proctor & Gamble unveiled a renewable sugarcane-based alternative to plastic that will be implemented on their Pantene Pro-V, CoverGirl, and international Max Factor product lines over the ...
As a designer and writer, I amass and burn through an absurd amount of pens, and it pains me to think that each and every one is bad for the ...
Frequent readers probably know that the ever-provocative, Miami-based architect (and, I would argue, philosopher) Steve Mouzon is on my short list of Other Writers Who Make Me Think. ...
In today’s ongoing discussions regarding sustainability, certification, and the role of graphic design in advancing both, many designers have asked, “Why can’t we have LEED for graphic design?” The answer, not ...
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” —Mahatma Gandhi There’s little doubt that we Americans love our pets. According ...
As a business owner I learned long ago that designing great projects is one thing, but leading a client towards entrusting you with their brand is an incredibly ...