Walk down any market aisle and you will be awash in a sea of packaging. Colorful boxes shout persuasive slogans while blister packs foil even the most determined of curious fingers. Take a walk outside and remarkably the experience is quite similar. Colorful berries announce their ripeness while spiky pinecones keep their seeds safe from →
“You have at least a million relatives as close as tenth cousin, and no one on Earth is any farther removed than your 50th cousin. With each breath, you take into your body 10 sextillion atoms, and–owing to the wind’s ceaseless circulation–over a year’s time you have intimate relations with oxygen molecules exhaled by every →
It’s that time of year again; time for the second annual Tommies, my 2010 kudos to the most impressive of recent bio-inspired designs or discoveries. As always, I will arrange the awards by the creatures that inspired the innovations, and invite any of the discoverers to have an Irish coffee with me at the Buena →
The second day of the 2011 Compostmodern conference about sustainable design choices became an “un-conference”. It was the first time in seven years that this event became a space for collaboration. Participants proposed topics about which they are passionate. People formed groups to discuss the topics at scheduled times. The goal was to engage in →
Welcome to the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD) blog site devoted to our ground-breaking, fully online, and evolving Sustainable Design Program. Visit us often as we’ll be hosting feature articles, event announcements and recaps, student work and insights, student and faculty profiles, upcoming course offerings, and much more. Do you have something to →