Off Ramp Films and 18th Street Media teamed up for project INFORM to create this short, inspiring video about paper – how much we use and at what cost. An American family of five sits on steps while cardboard and junk mail piles up to show how much is used every two weeks, until the […]
This hilarious video imagines the stop sign as designed by a committee. Any designer who’s been at it awhile will relate, but in my experience most clients are not like this. They hire us for our expertise and are not about to waste time and money over-controlling the process. Enjoy the video! Stop! A Committee […]
Most kids can identify 1000 corporate logos, but know the names of fewer than 10 plants or animals native to their own backyards. It’s NDD – nature deficit disorder. Average middle-school aged children spend 30 hours a week looking at TV or a computer monitor. Outdoor educators, including the No Child Left Inside Coalition, encourage […]
UPDATE 2010: The Producer’s Guild of America website has more information about green film production, which includes the MPAA’s Green Film Production Guide. NBC Universal also offers a pdf download with information about green film practices. We’ve also updated the other links in this article, originally posted in 2008, as many had gone dead. ———————————————————— […]
This study in gray pushes grayscale about as far as it goes in any direction, in this hectic CGI animation short from Movieola on my favorite new place to go, hulu.com. A city in grayscale. Robots race through a maze of freeways surrounded by factories, production lines, and constant reminders to BE WHITE. When they […]
A neat project by Rehab asked five music artists to create music that interprets a color, then gave the music to five directors to intrepret the music and create video. With lots of latitude the results are very different, but each one is fresh creative work. I especially love the Raveonettes’ take on black and […]
Kermit said it first: it isn’t easy being green. If you’re a green designer, it isn’t easy if you limit your color palette to shades of green – and why should you? Nature contains more colors than the eye can see – from ultraviolet to infrared, including all the colors of the rainbow and everything […]
Second EcoPinion Survey Points To Green Gap Between Customer Perceptions And Green Products and ServicesWASHINGTON, DC January 14, 2008 EcoAlign, a strategic marketing agency focused on energy and the environment and an affiliate of DEFG LLC, today released the results and findings of the second EcoPinion survey on customer perceptions of green technologies. The second […]
Here’s a link to a wonderful bunch of images – photos of the letters of the alphabet spelled out on butterfly wings.DailyMail.co.uk Gaia Graphics & Associates… creative by nature ~ www.gaiagraphics.com
The Use of the AFPA Recycling Symbol Products made from 100% recycled fiber should use either one of the following symbols: If the paper used is made with less than 100% recycled fiber, the symbol should be accompanied by a legend identifying the total percent of recycled fiber. An appropriate legend might read “XX% total […]