Consumable Waste

As a Graphic Designer, I try to be aware of all the latest news in the paper/print industry. I’m now trying to raise awareness to the new «environmentally friendly» products or techniques for my creative projects such as vegetal inks and FSC certified papers. But even when the client makes the decision of using those environmental techniques, the end user, the consumer won’t really pay attention to it or maybe they won’t even know. Some will but a majority won’t. What do you know about FCS certified products? (http://www.fsc.org/en/)My project consists of a collection of «home décor» oriented illustrations. Those illustrations will represent in some way our beautiful forests/animals and on the back of each illustration, some facts about FSC will be displayed. By teaching to the consumer about FSC, I will help them make the right decision about other FSC certified products such as some IKEA items/furniture. Basically, a nice print of happy nature and animals in the same style as the one I got my inspiration from. Obviously, these are going to be printed on a FSC certified paper by an FSC certified printer. I feel that it is time for everyone to know about the effort of others and I would like to contribute to it with my illustrations because forests matter to me.

Voilà! Design By Valéry Goulet

Image size: 11.75″ x 15.75″

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All submitted designs and proposals must be original works and exempt of any copyrights and any kind of obligation. For more information, contact us at consumablewaste@theideagroup.ca.

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As an individual or group, you may submit a maximum of three designs. Please note, if you are submitting more than one product, submit each product seperately in a different post.
For each work please supply the following:

1. “The Perfect Product” checklist—you must check at least one box in each section (Social, Environmental and Economic). Use this list as a reference, as this part will not be submitted to the blog. Once you have dowloaded the file and checked off the appropriate boxes, send it by email to consumablewaste@theideagroup.ca. It will be used as part of the exhibit.
2. A brief explanation of how your product relates to each of the checked boxes. This part will have to be included in your post with your images.
3. Up to three files (images or a composition of more images) of your project. Please use only .gif or .jpg files at 72 dpi with a maximum 100 kb for each file [image size max 600 (width) x 700 (height) pixels]. The original high-resolution image(s) will be requested later on.

Registration / Submission deadline: February 29, 2008

Finished entry deadline: May 01, 2008