Newsletter – November 2008
New Work
Ever wonder how you can keep up to date on the news and blog posts of your most important contacts? With personal news aggregator Gist, you can do just that. Vulcan Labs tapped Design Commission at the inception of the project to develop the product. DC helped create the Gist application, focusing on UI and front-end development. In addition, the team defined user experience and branded the product on everything from business cards to Powerpoint presentations.
Corbis Modern Life
Watch the evolution of Modern Life through pictures on Corbis’ new timeline tool, made by Design Commission. Along the way, you’ll see the first baked fruitcake in 44 A.D. and the invention of the text message in 1989. Check out www.corbis.com/modernlife, which DC localized in 11 languages, to brush up on your knowledge of innovations through history.
Lawyer Avenue, a brand new Website offering legal resources and retail shops catering to the legal community, was built from scratch by Design Commission. DC not only created brand identity and content strategy, but also site architecture that included a retail component. Thanks to developer John Ford for his help in this project.
First Thursday | December 4th | 5 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Design Commission Gallery presents Sky Castles, a showcase of installation and print media by Clara Sims. This exhibition features Clara’s colorful and fantastical wallpapers that reflect the artist’s signature bold and exaggerated strokes.
DC Index
The Crew at Design Commission has been filing our junk mail for the last month. At the onset, stockpiling heaps of paper sounded fun, and we even daydreamed about sending stinky paper pulp to CEOs and directors of advertising at Office Max. Sadly, this paper onslaught has only made us realize that as junk mail recipients, we are partly responsible for global warming. Sure, our 35 pieces of junk mail a month may be a tiny drop in the bucket, but just how big is this bucket anyway?
- Americans' total yearly paper waste would fill a convoy of garbage trucks, bumper to bumper, long enough to wrap around the earth six times and reach halfway to the moon. It is estimated that this year, 222 million tons of waste will be generated by Americans.
- The U.S. Postal Service delivers more than 87 billion pieces of direct mail (advertising and promotional mail) every year.
- More than 100 million trees’ worth of junk mail arrive in American mail boxes each year – that’s the equivalent of deforesting the entire Rocky Mountain National Park every four months.
- The production and disposal of direct mail consumes more energy than 2.8 million cars.
- If one person stopped getting their junk mail for five years, they would conserve 1.7 trees, 700 gallons of water, and prevent 460 pounds of carbon dioxide from being released into the air.
Sources:
Environmental Sustainability Committee
New American Dream
U.S. Forest Service statistics
Global Junk Mail Crisis
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