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Essay subject . Sustainable printing

http://layersmagazine.com/sustainability-in-the-design-process.html

Meet some people: Across the country, various AIGA chapters are producing Green Salons—informal gatherings for designers to make connections and jump-start action. See the AIGA Center for Sustainable Design website for details.

Join the Designers Accord: The Designers Accord is a global coalition working together to create positive environmental and social impact. Adopters commit to guidelines that provide collective and individual ways to integrate sustainability into design.

Reset that browser: There are numerous blogs, sites, tweets, etc. devoted to sustainable ideals. Steering your browser to destinations like Worldchanging, GOOD Magazine, TreeHugger, and Grist will ensure that your media diet has enough healthy fiber in it. Many of these sites have lively event schedules.

Look beyond the design community: What constitutes success for your company or your client in this regard? Everybody is trying to figure this out right now. How do your efforts correspond to those found in your clients’ industries? How are those things being expressed? Whether it’s through certification schemes, auditing, triple-bottom-line reporting, or other means of demonstrating transparency—many industries and organizations are grappling with sustainability and trying to communicate their own point of view on the subject.

Books

The Green Imperative: Ecology and Ethics in Design and Architecture by Victor Papanek (Oct 1995)

Packaging Sustainability by Wendy Jedlicka 

Green Graphic Design 

Celery Design Collaborative & Brian Dougherty

Sustainable Graphic Design. Tools, systems and strategies for innovative print design by Wendy Jedlicka 

Print and production finishes for sustainable design

Design It Yourself: Newsletters by Chuck Green and Adam Till

Celery design 

Green graphic design (book) 

Brian Dougherty 

Work of celery design 

Waste Management is shifting to a business of capturing value from cyclical material cycles – essentially redefining their understanding of waste – and Celery is supporting the company’s transition with a wide range of visual storytelling, digital and print communications. These include a company-wide Sustainability Report that articulates a new vision for the company, interactive infographics that make complex recycling processes understandable, and individual factoids tailored for social media.

DESIGNING BACKWARDS

Good design is a powerful force. We aim to make it a force for good by building strong brands for sustainable products, services and programs. We integrate innovative materials and manufacturing processes, and design for the whole life cycle. But most importantly, we shift the focus from designing stuff to designing outcomes. We call this process designing backwards. The result is lasting, substantive change in the marketplace and in the world.

Celery co-founder Brian Dougherty was approached in 2007 about writing a book to share some of the leasons learned during Celery's first ten years of trailblazing work at the intersection of design and sustainable business. The result was published in January 2009 by Allworth Press. Green Graphic Design helps to reframes the way designers can think about the work they create.

The large avocado on the cover references a metaphor used to describe the multiple layers of sustainable design. The avocado's skin represents the physical materials and manufacturing processes we use, which are immediately apparent. The tender fruit inside represents the messages graphic designers craft and deliver to audiences. The seed represents the central aim of design, which is to change the world for the better. The book challenges graphic designers to expressly design for positive change.

Green Graphic Design offers assistance at all phases of the design process, from high level systems thinking and conceptual strategies to concrete production-oriented tools that designers can use. The book focuses on designers' power to communicate, persuade, and ultimately spread socially and ecologically responsible behavior change to consumers and corporations. Though it was written primarily for the professional designers, it is frequently used in design schools as an introduction to sustainable design.

Printing inks and the environmental impacts 

The main issues surrounding printing inks and the environment are:
Some ink pigments contain metallic substances such as cadmium, chromium, lead and mercury, which are harmful to human health and the environment.

Conventional printing inks use oils that are petroleum-based (non renewable sources).
The inks emit Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) as they dry, making them a health hazard to press and print workers – as well as creating ozone pollution or photochemical smog.

http://www.splashprinting.co.uk/printing-the-environment/