D-Schools that teach sustainable design

October 1, 2009 by Rita

Hello,

Since we launched the ebook, I’ve been asked to recommend design schools that offer “remedial” training in sustainable design. It’s an urgent need. I know of a few schools that offer flexibility with e-learning, and distance learning options.

The venerable CCA in San Francisco offers an MBA in Design Strategy. The program chair, Nathan Shedroff, is an expert in sustainable design and a prolific author of books on the subject.

The Presidio Graduate School, another local San Francisco institution, offers an MBA in Sustainable Management. (Nathan Shedroff is a graduate of this program.)

MCAD Minneapolis College of Art and Design offers a Sustainable Design Certificate that covers a large territory–graphic design, packaging, product design, and more.

If you hear of others, please forward!

- Rita

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A book is born

September 30, 2009 by Rita

After a year and a half, it was a true labor of love. Even feels like giving birth–euphoria and utter exhaustion.

“Graphics Gone Green. Ways to Go Green Without Losing Your Shirt,” our PDF-based ebook is ready. All 157 glorious pages with thousands of links, hyper-linked x-refs, video interviews and more. It’s aimed at creative professionals who wish to make their workflows more sustainable. Erica and I thought long and hard about how we designers like to learn and process information. Then we designed the ebook’s interface, appearance and navigation accordingly. For people who like to read a printed page, we offer a book (printed one at a time) from Blurb.

We really like how it turned out. Hope you do too. I’ll post a sample chapter and also the colophon. Check it out!