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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…

Nov 18, 2024

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

Nov 18, 2024

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, 2024

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, 2024

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, 2024

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

Jun 14, 2024

Re-thinking Plastics: Towards a Recycular Economy

Musings on design within the circular economy

Feb 5, 2024

Re-thinking Plastics: Towards a Recycular Economy

Feb 5, 2024

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

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

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

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

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

BauErden — Build Earth!

The ultimate aim of design must be restoring harmony in the carbon cycle. No longer can we produce meaningless prints, tchotchkes…

Nov 13, 2019

Nov 13, 2019

A Teaching Philosophy

Teaching is more difficult than learning because what teaching calls for is this: to let learn. The real teacher, in fact, lets nothing…

Oct 31, 2017

Oct 31, 2017

A Conversation around Open Source, Sustainability, Aesthetics, + Design.

Two friends discussing how designers might better use open source tools and participate in open source communities amongst other things…

Aug 9, 2017

A Conversation around Open Source, Sustainability, Aesthetics, + Design.

Aug 9, 2017

Make/Unmake

In our acts of making we are also unmakers.

Feb 15, 2016

Make/Unmake

Feb 15, 2016

Too Many Choices.

Given limited time and resources, how does one decide on what to work? You can’t solve all problems, you can’t do all things. What then…

Sep 9, 2015

Too Many Choices.

Sep 9, 2015

More Sustainabilitist Ramblings

In car and building design choices made regarding fuel efficiency or energy usage have drastic impact on aesthetics. Certain shapes…

Sep 8, 2015

Sep 8, 2015

We are all Critics

Each of us has the faculties to be critical. Every time you use something and are vexed by failure or complication, try to voice the cause…

Sep 7, 2015

We are all Critics

Sep 7, 2015

Decoupling content from its site.

One thing that isn’t working well for me with Ruhoh, Wintersmith, etc. is that they mix site content with site generation files to a…

Jul 2, 2015

Jul 2, 2015

Striving For Static Sites

There is a lot of working happening in the static site generation realm. I’ve played with a number of options: Jekyll, Ruhoh, Nanoc, and…

Jul 2, 2015

Jul 2, 2015

Thoughts on Friz.

The ubiquity of a certain typeface is an interesting thing. Maybe it’s just that once you become attuned to something you see it…

Jul 1, 2015

Thoughts on Friz.

Jul 1, 2015

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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