Category Archives: Design
The Making of an Infographic
Creating a flowchart to illustrate our employee engagement booklet, Green the Team, was no easy task. To help guide organizations on their journey, we started with a basic question: “Do you have a green team?” From there, we charted dozens … Continue reading
Milton Glaser on The Devil In Design
Last week, fellow designer Jess Oswald and I took a trip to Parsons to see legendary designer Milton Glaser talk about his upcoming book “In Search of the Miraculous or One Thing Leads to Another.” We fully expected inspiration, which … Continue reading
Drawing Inspiration from the 90%
The BBMG design team’s most recent field trip? The Design With the Other 90% Cities exhibit at the U.N. Besides feeling really cool and important walking through the building’s fabled doors, we were excited to see projects designed with a … Continue reading
Nothing Is Ever Finished. A Lunch Talk from Eddie Opara.
The BBMG design team visited our friends at Hyperakt last Friday for an inspiring #lunchtalk from Pentagram’s Eddie Opara. Opara merged his studio, Map Office, with Pentagram in the fall of 2010—becoming the first partner to join the firm since … Continue reading
The Good, Bad & Necessary Evils of Packaging
Back in September, our CMO Mitch Baranowski had the honor of delivering the keynote address at this year’s Sustainable Packaging Forum on the topic of New Consumers and the future of packaging. We asked Collective members to share their thoughts, … Continue reading
Quantati Island: An Eco-Tourism Success Story
Last month, my husband and I returned from a vacation to Peru, exploring everywhere from the snow-capped peaks of the Andes to the tropical Amazonian rainforest. One of our most memorable stops along the journey was an eco-tourism homestay at Quantati … Continue reading
Core77 Design Awards 2011: BBMG Gets a Notable Nod
We were there! For its inaugural year, the 2011 Core77 Design Awards celebrated the richness of the creative profession. Among winners including IDEO and Frog, we received a Notable Professional nod in the Strategy/Research category for our groundbreaking report, Unleashed: … Continue reading
YIELD: Making Fashion Without Making Waste
Last week, Zanna (my dear friend and co-editor at Green House of Fashion) and I scoped out the Textile Arts Center in Brooklyn. We were so excited to be invited to the opening celebration for YIELD: Making Fashion Without Making Waste. … Continue reading
A Daily Reminder To Think Creatively and Sustainably
Last month Coca Cola and the World Wildlife Foundation unveiled a billboard in the Philippines that uses a thriving species of Fukien tea plant that absorbs air pollutants. Each plant used on the billboard can absorb about 13 pounds of … Continue reading
IceStone Shows the White House How It’s Done
The White House Council on Environmental Quality visited New York City Wednesday as part of a push to urge industrial companies to recycle and adopt other green measures. As part of this visit, White House advisor Nancy Sutley and Brooklyn … Continue reading
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