Other organization effort

Green Map System(GMS), a nonprofit organization that promotes sustainable community 

development, based in New York City, advocates for inclusive participation in sustainable

community development around the world, using mapmaking as our medium. It is aim to expand

the demand for healthier,greener choices. GMS offer a good reference for our life, especially 

for designer. When we choose the material (paper,plastic,ink,) ,GMS help us to choose the green 

one. As a designer said "Sustainability isn't hard; it's just not simple". 

Fake green?

There are many "eco" or "green" objectives around us. Is them true green?  Example: A booklet

printed on brilliant white glossy stock that uses toxic materials to produce the paper but uses vegetable 

inks to appear "eco". This is irony. But that is really exist in our life. Sometimes the "eco" just utilize 

the environmental sense of public. So, how we make the objects authentic green is very necessary. Put 

the practic.

Chuckanut Ridge House.It is with a minimal environmental impact .But the bamboo floor. It was from China.

Why be socially and environmentally responsible?

People become more environmentally and conscious for many reasons, and concern for the 

environment is not at the top of everyone's list. Jaimie Cloud, founder of the cloud Institute for v

Sustainability Education, is an expert on what motivates people to become more socially and

environmentally responsible. She maintains that most people want to do the right thing and reframes 

common questions. And then, to the designer who should do more to the society. She believed that we

live in a world linked together by mutually beneficial systems and that every action should solve more 

than one problem.

The waste of digital

1. When I finsihed my presentation, my tutor suggested that I should see this documentary"Mnufactured landscape".It is direted by Canadian fine art photographer Edward Burtynsky shoots the recycling dumps, superfactories, vast quarries and shipyards, capturing visual beauty in the ecological devastation. And making us thinking about  the problem: After all we demand the lowest prices in everything we buy and that probably means it was made in China. This movie gave me another pointview thinking about the digital products. The small product looks like nothing harmful to the environment, when we saw the report about the wast of electrical , I was been shocked.

Who read ebooks?

We can see that many people read ebooks, there is a inforgraphic about the topic "who reads  ebook".Random House’s Research and Analytics team pulled together details on the US ebook consumer from research reports from Pew, Bowker, and Forrester.
I was superised by the data when I saw this inforgrahic. I never thought about that people read ebook will disscuss books about their family and friends. Through the data we know that people who read eboob more about the suspense, mystery and romantic. This context are more about dailylife. People do not like talk about the profesional problem. It is easy to understanding.

Digital to the end

At this stage I want to more focus on the print production because this is the intensive area of graphic 

designers. In addition, digital product is more significantly effect our life, it will change the situation of

the graphic design area. More and more digital application that we could download. Like calender, the 

important goods we need before, but now we all have the moble phone that built into calender. And 

many people use the digital reader like Kindle, ipad. So there is a discuss whether the printing books 

will be disappear, maybe will or maybe not. This question just about the time and technology. But I 

think that digital book is more light and efficiency. It is save the energy to making paper and printing, 

in addition, the transportation. The digital book is not perfect enough, but along with the developing of 

the technology, it will much more convenient and more useful.
Kindle reader, the digital reader is not fresh enough,but the factory try their best to make it more closed to the real book and add more specific features to it. Currently, it was not good engouh, at the future, it will be good.

A Cup of green

The interesting thing i want to say that I got a red mag from my accommodation, firstly it  used be a  pan container. I did not recognise this action could linking with green design. But when read the book, I found this little action is the big step of our awareness. Because I was already recycle something that people do not use. So I want to making my mag as a enter of green design. When I research the materials
I still not left my mag. I want to do more changes of this red mag. Why not give it a life, so I found the moss of my garden and plant them in the red mag. I found that is beautiful when I have done.
The color is so lively. The most thing I excited is that I redesign the mag.
As the deeply of research, I have read more book of green design. I have though that what I can do of green design? Especially as a green designer. But I gave up the fix idea recently. Because I got a lot from this research and I have many excises. This is changing. When we do it, we gain.
The other picture shows my try, that model show the house waste of UK of 2008. I want to make the information (data) tell a story. I want to change the form to express the data. Making them more attractive and more interesting.