I came across this interview on the Print website about sustainability. Trevor Hacker is a designer at Lunar, which is a San Francisco based design company, and he talks about working as a designer in the city, and the challenge’s he faced when creating the “Designer’s Field Guide to Sustainability.” You can find this guide at http://www.lunar.com/fieldguide.html. I had a chance to read through it, and found it very helpful. It gives insightful information about sustainable product development and the product life cycle.
While browsing the Pentagram website, I came across these two videos interviewing Paula Scher titled The Geography of Design. Instead of writing my own summary, below is a quick description of what these videos are about taken from the Pentagram website. Watch them here, or head over to Pentagram.
“It is a new two-part interview with Paula Scher directed by the filmmaker Nicolas Heller and produced by Brian Collins for the Art Directors Club. In the first part of the film, shot at Scher’s home and studio in Connecticut, Scher discusses the influence of New York City, its architecture, and especially its noise (the yelling!) on her design and typography. In part two, she talks about the development of her map paintings. In the film, Heller (son of Steven) takes viewers on a journey through Scher’s work, from her groundbreaking ‘Best of Jazz’ poster to a new painting commission for the city’s Percent for Art program.”
