Christian Aid 'Cut the Carbon' March

Christian Aid stand with the world’s poorest people to bring poverty and injustice to an end – regardless of faith or ethnicity.

Do Good Advertising were asked to create and produce a press ad to draw attention to the 'Cut the Carbon' march, the longest ever protest march in UK history, designed to raise awareness of climate change.

The reason I like this advert is its boldness and clarity. It engages the viewer well and keeps the notion of caring for the environment. The advert is put together very simply and resources have been kept to a minimum to reduce the impact on the environment.

Ban the Bulb

The campaign by banthebulb.org was intended to save money and help the environment by using energy efficient light bulbs. I not only like the simplicity and cleverness of the poster, but I also agree with its stance on the environment. My independent project will be based on environmentally friendly graphic design. However I will be focusing more on the responsible practice of design rather than the message communicated by the final outcomes.

Renourish

A comprehensive green resource for graphic designers! I was delighted to be find the link to renourish.

Renourish is a resource for the graphic design industry. When green design is usually discussed, most people think of buildings, products or even cars, but what about packaging? Shouldn’t magazines, business cards, brochures and websites be green? At renourish, they’re helping to start the conversation on green graphic design by providing defintions, tips, and links to sustainable resources designers can use to make their work a little greener.

Brilliant! Renourish has great topics that run the gamut of paper, ink, printers, packaging, green design firms, sustainable living, etc. Having all of this info in one place is genius. Although green design is something that most designers are concerned about and interested in, I haven’t come across a comprehensive site like this before. I would like to see the site eventually include green vendors (other than paper & printing). This site will be very helpful to explore green graphic design in te future.

Link: http://www.re-nourish.com/

Tara Donovan

Tara Donovan’s sculptures are born of everyday materials such as scotch tape, drinking straws, paper plates, and Styrofoam cups. Donovan takes these materials and “grows” them through accumulation. The results are large-scale abstract floor and wall works suggestive of landscapes, clouds, cellular structures and even mold or fungus. She considers patterning, configuration, and the play of light when determining the structure of her works but the final form evolves from the innate properties and structures of the material itself. In her words, “it is not like I’m trying to simulate nature. It’s more of a mimicking of the way of nature, the way things actually grow.


All of her work must be assembled and disassembled, sometimes an extremely tedious process. Her work was featured in the 2000 Whitney Biennal and the All Soviet Exhibition and in a recent edition of Art News magazine. She is also the recipient of the Alexander Calder Award and a graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University. Most recently her work was featured in a solo exhibition in the Pace Gallery in New York.


Donovan's work is very visually stimulating. The style is similar to that of the well known Andy Goldsworthy. The pieces are very ironic by Tara Donovan. She uses recyled materials (unnatural materials) to display natural growth.


Here is the link to the Gallery
http://www.acegallery.net/artistmenu.php?Artist=8

Museum of Modern Art: Revolutionary Packaging

Shoppers at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) stores may have noticed something different on their latest visit. The packaging in all MoMA’s retail shops is now green. We’re not just talking simple green here either. Their gift packaging including boxes and all bags is now made from a revolutionary sustainable material called TerraSkin™ made by Design & Source Productions in New York.


TerraSkin™ is made from a combination of large amounts of mineral powder (>75%) with a small quantity (<25%) of non-toxic resin to create an environmentally friendly paper. TerraSkin(TM) has very similar characteristics to traditional paper with a tensile and tearing strength ratio of 1:1 - 2:1. It also has many eco-friendly characteristics. First, the production of TerraSkin(TM) requires no water, so the TerraSkin(TM) paper making process incurs no water pollutants. Second, as TerraSkin(TM) contains high proportions of inorganic mineral powder, when the end user is done with the TerraSkin(TM) product, the used paper will degrade when left out in nature for approximately three to nine months back into the mineral powder. If preferred, used papers can also be incinerated safely as non-toxic resins will not emit smoke or poisonous gas by-products. TerraSkin(TM) can also be easily and cost-effectively recycled in the future. Furthermore, on the production front, residues of inorganic mineral powder can be either reused or safely returned to nature. Most importantly, in producing TerraSkin(TM) , there are no trees involved. The paper is completely treeless.

Glucose-operated MP3 Player

How amazing is this, Sony have manged to come up with a glucose-operated battery. In the picture above, the woman is holding the battery in one hand and a MP3 player powered by it in the other. They successfully figured out how to generate the most power out of carbohydrates by breaking down enzymes that release active energy, which then can power small electronic devices. Revolutionary.

Similar Diversity

Similar Diversity is an information graphic which opens up a new perspective at the topics religion and faith by visualizing the Holy Books of five world religions. Communalities and differences of Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Judaism are shown up in this datavisualization.


The visual's basis is an objective text analysis of the Holy Scriptures, and works without any interpretations from the creators' side. Despite - or even because of this abstraction, the artworks are not only working on an informal but also on an emotional level. The viewers should be inspired to think about own prejudices and current religious conflicts.