While conducting some research for a project several months ago, I came across the interesting work of Jenny Bergström, a designer and researcher in Stockholm. I was particularly intrigued by her 2007 research project entitled “This is the air we breathe…”, in which she uses a flock printing technique to display air pollution over time… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Design for Environmental Causes
Pictograms and parks
Pictograms (also: pictographs), with their ancestral roots in hieroglyphics, can be beautiful in their utilitarian simplicity. For example, here is a sample set used by the National Park Service (click image below for larger view). Simple, purposeful, efficient, and clear. Resource: These pictograms, along with other cartographic symbols and patterns used on National Park Service… Read more »
Information design for advocacy
Fellow Graphic Alliance member John Emerson recently shared a wonderful free resource, a PDF booklet entitled Visualizing Information for Advocacy: An Introduction to Information Design. The manual is intended to introduce advocacy organizations to basic principles and techniques of information design. It provides some excellent examples of designs from groups around the world in a… Read more »
Green Paper Guide
For those looking to use environmentally-responsible paper for their projects, the number of vendors and product lines has grown considerably in the last two years. To help make sense of this expanding list of choices and find just the right paper for your needs, Design Can Change offers a terrific resource, a handy guide to… Read more »
Marketing rewewable energy
A climate of controversy This morning, delegates from the world’s top 16 polluting nations are in Washington DC for a controversial climate change meeting, organized by President Bush. Many across the world are questioning the motives behind Bush’s climate summit, seeing the 2-day meeting as an attempt to undermine the upcoming United Nations Climate Change… Read more »
