Shoeboxes Go Green
by Jeremy Lehrer
His company fuseproject delivers an array of design projects that consistently redefine genres. With innovative designs such as Puma’s “Clever Little Bag” shoebox, One Laptop Per Child, and the PACT underwear brand, Béhar and co. are relentlessly rethinking our everyday lives, transforming mundane objects into experiences that spark delight and imagination....
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Toeing the Triple Bottom Line
by Jeremy Lehrer
As the chief design officer at Johnson & Johnson’s Global Strategic Design Office, Chris Hacker is ambitiously pursuing a plan to make sustainable design a company norm. The innovations he’s shepherded during his five-year tenure include removing the paperboard box from Tylenol packaging, sourcing sustainably managed wood for Band-Aid boxes, and working with an impoverished Brazilian community to recycle plastic....
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Three Nonprofits Offer Insight into the Changing Sustainability Debate
by Jeremy Lehrer
These organizations are creating innovative campaigns, developing guidelines, and doing the essential R&D that corporations, governments, and individuals are using to adopt more sustainable practices. Here, the leaders of three nonprofits offer insights about design’s role in the shift....
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How 3 Corporations are Putting Their Green Foot Forward
by Jeremy Lehrer
Here's how John Delfausse (Estee Lauder), Scott Vitters (Coca-Cola), and Juergen Dornheim (Procter & Gamble) are expanding their life-cycle-assessment tools to lessen the footprint of products and operations from cradle to cradle....
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Tomi Um
by Jeremy Lehrer
Tomi Um's personal illustration projects have a decidedly Buddhist flavor. In the lusciously screen-printed foldout comic The Feast, images of the Buddha and other members of the sangha appear in a joyful riot of color, line, and ink. For an upcoming project, Um is illustrating a narrative called The Noodle Monk. "I've really liked the shape of those curly noodles my whole life, and they're fun to draw," she explains....
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Best Practices Part 2: More Tips for Green Printing
by Jeremy Lehrer
Three experts offer more exclusive, insightful tips on how to keep your design projects as green as can be during the various stages of design and printing process. Each one addresses a different part of that process, and identifies steps designers can take at each point to make ecologically sound choices....
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Design Resources for Helping Haiti
by Jeremy Lehrer
After the Haiti earthquake, designers who want to help from afar can put their skills to use in any number of ways. Here are a few options and a resource list for further study....
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The Ups and Downs of Going Green
by Jeremy Lehrer
Four designers get out of the abstract and talk about the difficulties, rewards, and necessary knowledge required to "go green for real."...
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