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• Printing on a sustainable shoestring (part 2)

  Researching the sustainability of paper stock for our album packaging project lead us to consider two interesting questions: how do we find the balance between the needs of the project and the need to be sustainable; and to what extent can we justify using extra resources and creating more waste in pursuit of an aesthetic?

  We’ve […]

  Posted on Sep 21.07 to Sustainability, Design   

• Printing on a sustainable shoestring

  Over the past few days we’ve been researching sustainable packaging options for a CD we are designing for local indie band FUZU (Eskimo Grant is a member of the band). Hopefully the project will show not only that sustainable design is achievable on a shoe-string, but also that ethical and sustainable choices are sound foundations […]

  Posted on Sep 10.07 to Sustainability, Design   

• Bruce Nussbaum on design

  In Business Week: CEOs Must Be Designers, Not Just Hire Them. [via plasticbag]. His main point:
  I now believe that CEOs and managers must know Design Thinking to do their jobs. CEOs must be designers and use their methodologies to actually run companies.

  But he goes on to elaborate. Here’s some more:
  What are the biggest […]

  Posted on Aug 31.07 to Sustainability, Design   

• What Excessive Salary Package?

  This little infographic is a great example of the power of visual communication. It was designed by Josh On (of Futurefarmers renown and designer of They Rule) and Shazna Nessa.

  Posted on Aug 28.07 to Design   

• Visualising the Internet

  This remarkable work of information design was produced from code created by Barrett Lyon for The Opte Project. The image is based on code that can map every C class network on the internet from a single computer in around twelve hours. The resulting image is a snapshot of the internet drawn from that half-day […]

  Posted on Aug 21.07 to Design   

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