We are concerned about our impact on the environment and strive to create business practices that support sustainability. In our business we strive to reduce our use of paper and take other steps to control our impact environmentally. In ou [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, December 29th, 2011
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April 27th is World Graphic Design Day, and the Canadian design community celebrated with GDC announcing new sustainability definitions and principles for its members at the National AGM in Winnipeg on April 26th. This is a huge leap forwar [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
Categories: Associations, Design, News, Sustainability | 1 Comment »
Most of us have already seen Microsoft’s impressive multi-touch display technology, but I’m not sure how accurate this utopian portrait of the future of computing is, called Microsoft Sustainability. Pretty awesome bit of motion [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, March 17th, 2009
Categories: Inspiration, Motion-graphics, Sustainability, Technology | No Comments »
Here’s an article about Hemlock Printers on BC Hydro’s website about their hard work to protect our environment. Good work guys! Now, can I UV coat, laminate, foil stamp, hot glue and add thermography to that booklet project? Aw [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
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Dutch design firm SPRANQ has developed a new typeface that incorporates their concern for the environment. Ecofont is a typeface similar in look to Vera Sans, but resembles Swiss cheese in its makeup. The aerated font uses 20% less ink to p [...]
Posted by: Alex Leynes on Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
Categories: Design, Pop Culture, Sustainability, Typography | No Comments »
As the “Big 3″ automakers scramble to stay a float, one company is rethinking the electric automobile. XP Vehicles Inc. have developed an electric car based on the Mars Lander technology that would make it the first inflatable c [...]
Posted by: Alex Leynes on Sunday, January 4th, 2009
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The LA Auto Show is home to the largest west coast display of cutting edge vehicular design and engineering. Every year the show opens its design challenge to any automaker that feels like they are up for flexing their creative muscle. This [...]
Posted by: Alex Leynes on Sunday, November 23rd, 2008
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Our goal for the Practivism event is to host an enlightening, rhetoric-free evening of wisdom and discussion as our sustainability experts share their experiences and insights, attempt to demystify green speak and provide attendees with practical answers and strategies they can apply in their lives and design practices. But as we discussed the event logistics, such as printing invites, posters, flying the speakers from New York and California, etc, it was a harsh reminder of the impact we have on the environment even when putting on relatively small industry events such as these.
We're making every effort possible to make effective choices to promote and host our event within realistic parameters, such as reducing our print requirements and ensuring we use production techniques with the smallest environmental input. We even considered remote web video technologies and web streaming as an alternative to needed the speakers to be on-site. Hopefully as we move forward we can make innovations to how events and conferences are organized an produced.
GDC's Designer Speaker Series event Practivism: Practical methods for radical sustainability in design will be held on November 13th at Science World in Vancouver. Speakers include, Innovation and Sustainabilty Expert Marc Alt, Green Graphic Design author Brian Dougherty and Design Can Change Founder Eric Karjaluoto. Information and tickets are available at www.practivism.ca.
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During the research and planning phase of an upcoming GDC event—Practivism: Practical methods for radical sustainability in design—I came across Alyssa Walker’s article Conventional Wisdom: Eight Ways to Save Design Conferences. I [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, September 26th, 2008
Categories: Associations, Design, Events, Learning, Sustainability, Vancouver | No Comments »
UPDATE: So far he’s raised just under $10,000 and has been featured in the National Post, The Huffington Post and The Metro. Throw in some interviews on CBC and CKNW and there’s quite a bit of support behind this initiative. If [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
Categories: Inspiration, News, Sustainability | 1 Comment »
One of my good friends recently took the plunge and moved his life to the Cambridge University in the UK to study Sustainable Engineering. Brendan Baker has been researching the eventual environmental impacts made during product design. His [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
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Mark and I just got back from the HOW Conference in Boston and far and way the most memorable presentation had NOTHING to do with design at all. Enter Chad Pregracke and his organization Living Land and Water. It was 45 minutes of go go go [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
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A good friend of mine, Brendan – originally from Vancouver but now in Cambridge via Australia and Senegal, wrote a great article on the perspective he’s gained from being a Canadian abroad. It’s a great read that I encourage a [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Thursday, May 8th, 2008
Categories: Inspiration, Pop Culture, Sustainability | No Comments »
An Al Gore initiative, called “We Can Solve It” just (re)branded and have an interesting new logo. Outlined in a NY Times article by Steve Heller, the logo looks to link the concept of “we” and “me” in a [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Monday, April 7th, 2008
Categories: Branding, Sustainability | No Comments »
 I'm left out of many of the new mobile features because I haven't shelled out $500-$1000 for the newest phone (and again in a year, and another year etc). On top of that, the environmental impact of discarded cell phones is an increasing concern.
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Change in the cell phone industry seems to be speeding up rapidly these days. Seems I can’t hang out with friends these days without everyone pulling out their phones comparing features. I feel a little left behind rocking my ghetto M [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Thursday, March 6th, 2008
Categories: Design, Sustainability | No Comments »
I am a big believe in alternative energy, wind, solar but this story caught my eye. Imagine a vat of liquid cow manure covering the area of five football fields and 33 feet deep. Meet California’s most alternative new energy. On a dai [...]
Posted by: Matt SamyciaWood on Thursday, March 6th, 2008
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