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Sustainable design also referred to as “green design”, “eco-design”, or “design for environment” is the art of designing physical objects, the built environment and services to comply with the principles of economic, social and ecological sustainability. It ranges from the microcosm of designing small objects for everyday use, through to the macrocosm of designing buildings, cities, and the earth’s physical surface. It is a growing trend within the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, urban planning, engineering, graphic design, industrial design, interior design and fashion design. 

The needed aim of sustainable design is to produce places, products and services in a way that reduces use of non-renewable resources , minimizes environmental impact, and relates people with the natural environment. Sustainable design is often viewed as a necessary tool for achieving sustainability. It is related to the more heavy-industry-focused fields of industrial ecology  and green chemistry, sharing tools such as life cycle assessment to judge the environmental impact or “greenness” of various design choices.

Sustainable Print  and Package Design :

Christmas Card

Eco-friendly presentation folder:

• An earthy, elegant solution to presentation marketing
  
• Made of 100% post-consumer recycled chipboard
  
• Printed with low VOC-emitting, renewable vegetable-based inks
  
• It’s a cost-effective solution – priced equivalent to a PF-105 folder printed on a Group I-priced paper stock
• The perfect way to “green up” your presentations

The Uruku Lipstick package from Aveda and Estée Lauder .

Ben & Jerry’s Ice cream package

The HP Protect Messenger Bag 

made from 100% recycled materials, the customer takes home the computer in the stylish messenger bag without any packaging

Treepac is a new design concept for solving the problem of single use 

Eco-Friendly DVD Package

Sustainable Flour Packaging

These products show the capabilities of sustainable print, they are made of :

-New Leaf Paper 100% Recycled

-Soy-Based Inks and Varnishes

-Chemistry Free Plates

-Energy Efficient Press

-100% Wind Power

Living in the city of Beirut, Sally Khoury paints the many faces of woman on over-sized canvas. After graduating from LAU (Lebanese American University) in Fall 2005 with a BA in Fine Arts, she has exhibited in various, cafes, restaurants, galleries, pubs and clubs in the city, and thus has taken a prominent step onto the art scene. Her work has gained much attention due to her depiction of exaggerated features and her versatile use of explosive colors. Each woman she depicts tells her own story. Her art work is aggressively bold and yet alluring in all its femininity. It pushes the boundaries of understanding and defining women.

I found the presentation she gave at LAU quite interesting and I really really loved her work.

Her Work:

David Carson is an American graphic designer. He is best known for his innovative magazine design, and use of experimental typography. He was the art director for the magazine Ray Gun. Carson was perhaps the most influential graphic designer of the nineties. In particular, his widely-imitated aesthetic defined the so-called “grunge” era.

Carson’s work is at the same time meaningful and esthetically beautiful, he mixes a lot of techniques and elements and includes a lot of superpositions. we have the feeling that his surfer/no rule/artist mind is bursting out on all of his work !!

His Work :

Michael C. Place was born in North Yorkshire, England in 1969. He graduated from Newcastle College in 1990. He then went on to work at Bite It!, London with Trevor Jackson working on mainly record covers for Champion Records, Gee Street Records for artists such as The Stereo MC’s etc. He started work at The Designers Republic, Sheffield in 1992 where he worked for 9 years, on a diverse range of work from R&S Records, Satoshi Tomiie, Warp Records, Sun Electric to the Wipeout series for the Playstation to the book 3D>2D Adventures In + Out of Architecture. He left tDR to go travelling in 2000. On September 17th, 2001 he started his own design company “Build”, which is based in London. Build specialises mainly in design for print.

He uses a lot of icons and symbols, his work is very simple and straight to the point, combining type and image most of the time.

His Work :

Advertising is a form of communication that typically attempts to persuade potential customers to purchase or to consume more of a particular brand of product or service. Many advertisements are designed to generate increased consumption of those products and services through the creation and reinforcement of “brand image” and “brand loyalty”. For these purposes, advertisements sometimes embed their persuasive message with factual information. Every major medium is used to deliver these messages, including television, radio, cinema, magazines, newspapers, video games, the Internet and billboards. Advertising is often placed by an advertising agency on behalf of a company or other organization. Here are some ads I find very cool :

-Anti-smoking campaigns :

It looks just as stupid when you do it !!

With Cigarette Your Life Goes to Ashes.

- Pepsi campaigns :