Compostmodern Convergence #3
I really can’t say enough about Emily Pilloton. We watched a 30-minute speech given by the 27-year-old last week at AIGA’s Compostmodern gathering. I was blown away. She is clear, driven and above all else, carries a humble disposition about her position in the world. She believes the more the merrier when it comes to [...]
The May Local Challenge
A few weeks ago, my husband Dan and I were driving down Harford Road discussing buying our food through local channels. It led to the idea of challenging ourselves for one full month to buy nothing but locally (or regionally) produced food. We would set a budget and see how well we could stick to [...]
Compostmodern Convergence #2
Happy Earth Day. I had the privilege of attending AIGA’S second of four sessions geared toward the 2009 Compostmodern Workshop in SanFran. If last week was about scale, this week was definately about statistics. We watched two videos, one from Michel Gelobeter and the other from Saul Griffith. You might know of Saul through wattzon.com. [...]
Compostmodern Convergence #1
Last night I participated in the first of a 4 session meetup through AIGA to discuss the role of the designer in sustainability. The discussion was based around a serious of videos from the 2009 Compostmodern Workshop in San Francisco and the focus of last night’s discussion was scale. To start off the evening we [...]
The Maryland Film Festival : Inspired Magazine
The Maryland Film Festival has just been featured by Inspired Magazine as having one of the 33 most inspirational Twitter backgrounds (@MdFilmFestival). Thanks Inspired! Be sure to keep an eye out for all of the other materials we have designed for the Festival around town…building banners, posters, bus shelters, stickers, and yard signs have been [...]
Orange Element Website Launch
We’re live! That’s right, Orange Element has launched a redesign of www.orange-element.com. The new site offers a low-fi, visual snapshot of OE, partners and friends. The launch would not have been possible without the collaboration and partnership with the team over at Fastspot. Fastspot was able to take the idea and enhance it by building [...]
