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Kristian Bjornard

Kristian Bjornard

Exploring Plastic as a Case Study for the Circular Economy

As someone deeply committed to sustainability and regenerative design, I find working with plastic both challenging and necessary. Plastic…

2d ago

Kids weaving a rug from plastic bread sacks over a modernist floral pattern.

2d ago

Kristian Bjornard

What Should Sustainable Graphic Design Look Like?

In an era where sustainability has become a pressing concern across all industries, the field of graphic design is no exception. As visual…

Nov 11

A graphic banner of 7 stripes. From left to right: Stripe 1 is an unhealthy earth with red bursts radiating around. Stripe 2 is green with the words “Eco-friendly” inside. Stripe 3 is pink with the word “Innovative” inside. Stripe 4 is blue with the words “Status Quo” inside. Stripe 5 is gray with the words “Non-Existent” inside. Stripe 6 is purple with the words “Vernacular/Lo-TEK” inside. The last stripe contains a healthy looking earth from space with green and lblue radianting lines around.

Nov 11

Kristian Bjornard

Towards A New Design Commons

Ellen Lupton said of her book Thinking with Type that it was a book for everyone because everyone deserves good typography. I think that…

Jun 14

Black text reads “Towards a new design commons” over a scientific image of rainbow prism graphics.

Jun 14

Kristian Bjornard

Re-thinking Plastics: Towards a Recycular Economy

Musings on design within the circular economy

Feb 5

Re-thinking Plastics: Towards a Recycular Economy

Feb 5

Kristian Bjornard

From Indesign to Pure Content

The following essay is from a series of writings I turned into a lecture in 2014. From 2011–2014 my work colleagues and I explored a bunch…

Mar 2, 2023

XML version of content to be fed to Indesign, Structure already in the XML automatically can display paragraph styling named with same name as tags. woohoo.

Mar 2, 2023

Kristian Bjornard

LibreDesign: TeX/MetaFont Detour

The foundation of Free/Libre Open Source is connected to the greater domain of printing and Graphic Design. A particularly interesting one…

Jul 16, 2022

Jul 16, 2022

Kristian Bjornard

The Libre Designer

Towards an understanding of Free/Libre Open Source as Graphic Designers… Thoughts on freeing the practice of design… ?

Jul 16, 2022

The Libre Designer, a “poster” for a talk that happened way back in 2020. Gnu, Penguin, Pencil icons with big type that says “The Libre Designer” over an abstract green and brown background.

Jul 16, 2022

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What is Sustainable Graphic Design?

I’m attempting to curate a space where visual designing and sustainability overlap meaningfully. I’ll walk us through some theories and a…

Nov 16, 2021

What is Sustainable Graphic Design? A collage of vintage imagery — a green palm tree, blue impossible circle, yellow case bound book and orange cellular structure … all on a gray background. This is meant to be a unique, interesting visual composition.

Nov 16, 2021

Kristian Bjornard

020210716215043 Ideas: What is a Sustainabilitist?

I want to be better? but what does this mean? how does one do this?

Jul 23, 2021

Jul 23, 2021

Kristian Bjornard

The Triple Bottom Line as Design Effectiveness Judge?

I am going to find random things in my are.na sustainability and design channels, things that can work like prompts. I’ll then write…

Jun 8, 2021

Jun 8, 2021

Kristian Bjornard

Kristian Bjornard

Designer / Thinker / Sustainabilitist … I run a design studio, I profess @ MICA, & I ride a bike nearly everywhere. AKA bjornmeansbear.

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