Tag Archives: Sustainability

Creative designs by Anita J

June 23, 2008 – 4:52 pm

I love these designs made by Flickr user “Anita J+”. She used books to form the shapes of trees and flowers for these environmental awareness posters. The rest of her stuff is top notch as well, although I can’t find an official website besides her Flickr account.

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Bamboo toy design workshop

May 12, 2008 – 12:58 pm

15 students from Shankar college in Israel traveled to China to participate in a workshop for designing bamboo toys. The toys are really cute, and of course, bamboo is super sustainable. I love the way the simple bright colors look with the light brown color of the bamboo.

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Sleeping Forest Studios - Beautiful wood designs (marquetry)

April 29, 2008 – 9:07 am

I saw this amazing wood business card holder on Etsy and I fell in love with it. I am a sucker for nicely presented woodgrain. I had just expected it to be painted on with wood stain, but the design turned out to be made from inlaid pieces of wood.

I looked at their […]

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Earth Day poster series - Fair Trade?

April 22, 2008 – 9:03 am

I recently designed a 3 part poster series for earth day. The idea is to get people to think about the things they take from nature and the things they put into it and decide if they are “trading fairly” with nature. It was made by taking my illustrations and printing them out, […]

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Sustainability “nutrition” labels for houses

April 10, 2008 – 10:50 am

I love the creative solution for publishing the sustainability facts for this house design. The nutrition label layout makes the figures much more “digestible” (sorry, that pun wasn’t planned, I swear). It might get more people to think that they should treat house shopping in a similar way to food shopping. When […]

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Seven-nine - Wood + art = nice.

March 28, 2008 – 11:48 pm

Seven-nine is a small collection of one person’s paintings and prints that seems to mostly be either about trees and wood, or actually made on wood. I really love wood grain, and it’s nice to see paintings that embrace it.

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Boulder, Colorado to be the first “Smart Grid City”

March 18, 2008 – 1:07 am

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Exel Energy announced that it would make Boulder, CO the first “Smart Grid City”. Which basically means they are creating some sort of energy program that is self aware and able to make itself more reliant, efficient, and greener. There’s a video on that page that explains it […]

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Evening Tweed

February 24, 2008 – 12:46 pm

There is some really good type work going on at the Evening Tweed design collective. And they seem very earth conscious, which is an added bonus. Here’s a small taste of my favorite works:

found via I Love Typography

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