By Eric Benson 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 to Fail or Succeed.” Penguin Books. 2005.) It is fairly simple to call a few printers in your local area...
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 graphic designer’s daily language: ink. Ink was developed, for commercial purposes, by the Chinese thousands of years ago and was constructed of various mixtures of...
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 to our civilization and current way of life. But what does this mean for the graphic designer? Do we have responsibilities beyond...
