Kristian Bjornard

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Kristian Bjornard

Re-thinking Plastics: Towards a Recycular Economy

Musings on design within the circular economy

13 min readFeb 5, 2024

Re-thinking Plastics: Towards a Recycular Economy

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…

3 min readMar 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.

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…

3 min readJul 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… ?

2 min readJul 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.

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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…

16 min readNov 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.

Kristian Bjornard

020210716215043 Ideas: What is a Sustainabilitist?

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

2 min readJul 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…

3 min readJun 8, 2021

Kristian Bjornard

BauErden — Build Earth!

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

1 min readNov 13, 2019

Kristian Bjornard

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…

7 min readOct 31, 2017

Kristian Bjornard

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…

14 min readAug 9, 2017

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

Re-thinking Plastics: Towards a Recycular Economy

Musings on design within the circular economy

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…

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…

The Libre Designer

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

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…

020210716215043 Ideas: What is a Sustainabilitist?

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

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…

BauErden — Build Earth!

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

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…

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…

Kristian Bjornard

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