AIGA Boston Green Salon, With Joshua Onysko, Pangea Organics

Tuesday, December 1st at 6:30 pm
Pangea Organics is a multimillion-dollar company and a paragon in sustainability, organic skincare and package design. Joshua Onysko is the founder and owner of Pangea Organics, whose skin care products can be found in top major retailers like Whole Foods and Macy's. Today the company remains committed to creating all natural skincare products that are organic, handcrafted, and cruelty-free. Making soap with your mom can be simple family fun -- or the seed of one of the fastest-growing organic skin care businesses in the country.
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SHIFT: A Green Salon

The Portland AIGA Green Team kicks off its new series, SHIFT: A Green Salon, on Thursday, November 5th. The event will showcase 10 five-minute presentations from designers, creatives, and innovators that are making communications better and more sustainable. Ideas range from rethinking design to creative print solutions and efficient typography screen techniques. A short Q&A session and mingling will follow the presentations.
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Charlotte Designers Accord Town Hall

Last August, Rachel Martin, Membership Director of AIGA Charlotte and Chapter Outreach committee co-chair for the Center for Sustainable Design, had the honor of presenting at the Designers Accord Charlotte Town Hall. The event, hosted by BOLTgroup, was the first Designers Accord Town Hall in the southeast and a great success.

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The Living Principles for Design

The Living Principles for Design will be unveiled at the Make/Think: AIGA Design Conference in Memphis on Friday, October 9th at 11am local time. This integrated framework for design distills the collective wisdom found in decades of sustainability theories and makes it accessible to a broad audience of design practitioners and their clients.

For a preview of what to expect from this framework, the Center for Sustainable Design invites you to examine the Genealogy of the Living Systems. This research document describes the landscape of the major sustainability visions, manifestos, principles, frameworks and tools that have been developed over the past 50 years and are relevant to design. It is also a chronology and a primer of sorts - an invitation for further discovery. Upon review, it will become apparent that a lot of good and useful information already exists, but that it is fragmented. It is also missing a compelling case for design's impact on trends and habits. We believe that for sustainable design to be attainable, designers need to acquire a common understanding.

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AIGA Seattle: Green Salon Roundtable

AIGA Seattle, the professional association for design, is holding a Green Salon Roundtable on Saturday, October 17, 10:15-11:45 a.m. at the Phinney Ridge Community Center, Room 6, 6532 Phinney Ave N., Seattle. This is the first in a series: an open forum for AIGA members and other designers to bring ideas to the floor for discussion and learn about sustainable design methods from each other.
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