Blog entries: Inspiration

We know, we know… it's just bad form to let your blog collect dust. That's what happened to ours this year, but we have a great excuse.

Meet our newest citizen, William James Doherty. While the studio is our "baby" too, Will has happily taken much of our focus this year. So while our blog isn't looking great at the moment, 2011 will be remembered as one outstanding year. And here's to a great 2012!

Savannah College of Art and Design holds the Design Ethos conference October 7-9 in Savannah, Georgia. This symposium explores how the role and responsibilitis of designers must evolve to work in the sustainable economy. Speakers include some of our personal favorite sustainability design folks, Phil Hamlett (presenting the Living Principles, and John Bielenburg (discussing Project M).

Each year looks a little greener to us. In early 2004, Citizen Studio sent out canvas bags to our clients and friends to help alleviate the need for paper or plastic ones. We were thrilled to hear that people were actually using them for groceries, a trip to the mall, or other things that reduced disposable bag use. (One lucky bag actually made it to Cortona, Italy for the UGA summer program.)

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

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.