AIGA San Francisco seeks to provides sustainable design
solutions and resources relevant to the design profession.
The committee coordinates events, conducts contests, sponsors conferences
and develops materials that highlight the relationship between the graphic
design and the environment.
Environment Chair, Gaby
Brink
Compostmodern
is an interdisciplinary, one-day design conference dedicated to promoting
sustainable design as an everyday practice and mode of thinking, rather
than a niche way of working.
Compostmodern will take place January 19, 2008, again in San Francisco. This event
will explore the current and future potential for ecologically sustainable
and socially responsible design.
Attention will be focused on real
word and real time solutions for the graphic design and industrial design communities.
Past gatherings have discussed the problems associated with sustainability and
defined the problems designers face in creating two and
three-dimensional products.
The committee has also put together a list
of recycled content papers.
The ecological guide to paper was originally conceived by Celery
Design Collaborative of Berkeley, CA
Every other year, the committee presents the Environmental
Leadership Award to a firm or client that best exemplifies the marriage
of design and environmental considerations. The juried competition occurs
in the fall of even numbered years and the winner is announced at a fall
celebration.