Blog entries: Events

This is an update to our original post. The survey is extended to July 17 and the workshop will now take place in late August 2010.

The New York Times began the Polling Place Photo Project in 2006. (AIGA is a supporting partner.

Read conference highlights (and a quote from us) on the Corporate Social Responsibility Newswire.

Michael Harrison makes a great point that we believe is the key to making sustainable practices profitable: “First, you have to give the customer what he or she wants,” he said, “and that’s great boots.”

We followed up our recent trip to Boston for the Green Media Show with attending local sustainability conference. The GreenBusiness Works Expo 2008 was held at Cobb Galleria. The conference an interesting, diverse crowd of speaker/presenters, exhibitors, and attendees.

AIGA Atlanta is holding an event tonight for junior designers looking for their next job. Citizen Studio partner Linda Doherty will be one of six panelists discussing topics including when to leave a job, how to find the right next position, and sharing advice on moving up in the ranks.

Thursday night we heard a great talk and visited afterwards with Brian Dougherty of Celery Design Collaborative. Brian’s been creating sustainable communications for ten years in Berkeley, California and is just finishing up a book called Green Graphic Design.