“The future belongs to those who understand that doing more with less is compassionate, prosperous and enduring and thus more intelligent, even competitive.”

Paul Hawken



Connecting Values:
Teaching Sustainability to Graphic Designers
August 24, 2010 | Eric Benson
re-nourish.com

“Since 2006 I’ve been experimenting with teaching the concept of “sustainability” to graphic design students. I came out of graduate school with a lot of assumptions on how to introduce the topic, [and] felt the students would respond positively to the prompts and projects. In many cases, I was completely wrong on both accounts…”

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Advertising for a Better World: The nation's only nonprofit ad agency crafts messages with a mission
November/December 2006
Utne Reader
by James Diers
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Against All Odds

January/February 2004
Mother Jones
by Adam Hochschild
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America the Greedy
April 29, 2004
AIGA website
by Carolyn McCarron
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An Ideal Design is Not Yet
1999
The World Must Change — Graphic Design and Idealism
by Leonie ten Duis, Annelies Haase
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An Offer They Can’t Refuse
September 2005
The Sun
by Pat MacEnulty
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c space Can Designers Save the World (and should they try?)
September/October 2001
Spy
by Nico Macdonald
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Conceptual Design: Building a Social Conscience
November 01, 2005
AIGA
by Nick Currie
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Culture Change
January/February 2003
Mother Jones
by David Goodman
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The Designer and Pro Bono:
Professional Practices Series 3

by Doowah Design Inc. with Deschenes Regnier
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Design for the Next Billion Customers
Core77 Design Blog
by Niti Bhan and Dave Tait
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Designism 2.0

Social Design Notes
Backspace website
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Ethics and Social Responsibility
July/August 2005
Professional Practice
by Shel Perkins
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Ethics in Design
March 27, 2003
by Megan Prusynski
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First Things First 1964 a Manifesto
1964
Guardian Newspaper
by Ken Garland
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First Things First Manifesto 2000 Design Manifesto
Fall 1999 / Spring 2000
Manifesto published jointly by 33 signatories in:
Adbusters, the AIGA journal, Blueprint, Emigre, Eye, Form, Items
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Graphic Intervention
Typotheque.com
by Steven Heller
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How Can Design Influence the Tools of Democracy?
March 11, 2008
AIGA website
by Richard Grefé
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How to Look at Billboards
No.17
Stay Free
by Howard Gossage
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Hype vs. Hope
November/December 2006
Mother Jones
by Bill MicKibben
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In Search of Ethics in Graphic Design
August 16, 2004
AIGA website
by Paul Nini
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I Print + Your Print = Eco Footprint
December 2009
Art Institute of Colorado Thesis Paper
by Katie Whitman
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Just Do It! Tony Hendra on Designism
October 24, 2006
AIGA website
by Steven Heller
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Kyoto Design Declaration 2008
2008
AIGA website
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Mainstreaming Green: 9 Rules for Popularizing Purpose with Today's Consumer
2007
North Ventures Partners, LLC
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The Marketing of Diamonds: How A Successful Cartel Turned A Worthless Rock
Edward Jay Epstein
Abridged by Carrie McLaren.
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Meet The Corporation
September/October 2005
Sierra
by Chris Warren
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My Beef With Big Media
May 2005
Ode
by Ted Turner
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The New Capitalists
May/June 2006
Utne
by Joseph Hart
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Online Creative Collaboration as a Pathway to Social Responsibility
2006
Thesis Study, The College of Fine Arts
The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
by Rick Bennett and Andrew Polaine
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Practise, Don’t Preach
September 2005
Spy
Nico Macdonald
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Print Design and Environmental Responsibility
AIGA
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Project M: Thinking Wrong, Doing Right
January 30, 2009
MetropolisMag.com
Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson
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The Road to Hell—Bending the truth can be a slippery slope for graphic designers
August/September 2002
Metropolismag.com
by Milton Glaser
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Standards of Professional Practice
2008
AIGA
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Stories That Shake The World
April 2006
Ode
by Seth Godin
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Success and the Design of Morality
Core77
by Cordy Swope
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Sustainable Progress
May 20, 2004
Spy
by Nico Macdonald
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Thinking about Design Education
September 18, 2004
AIGA
by Kerry Polite
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There is Such a Thing as Society
2001
Eye Magazine
by Andrew Howard
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The Time for Being Against
February 24, 2001
Typotheque
by Rick Poynor
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Tibor Kalman: (I Believe in the Lunatic!)
April 1, 2008
Design History Mashup Blog
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Towards Creative Activism
03/27/07
Creative Review
by Patrick
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Triumph of the Shill part one
Issue 23, Winter 2004
Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture
by Jennifer L. Pozner
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Triumph of the Shill part two
Issue 24, Spring 2004
Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture
by Jennifer L. Pozner
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Waiting for Permission
1992
Rethinking Design, a journal from Mohawk Paper Mills
by Michael Bierut
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When Is a Corporation Like a Freed Slave?
November/December 2006
Mother Jones
by Barry Yeoman
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