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Design Category
Book design, 1996
Creative director/designer
Brian Collins
Collection
(1997) 50 Books/50 Covers of 1996
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The book provides a practical introduction to environmentally sensitive design through reduction, reuse, recycling, responsible buying, office environments, and community involvement, offering case studies and resources for designers to use. To provide inspiration to the book’s audience of graphic designers, each of the thirty illustrators was given one element of nature to interpret, evoking an imaginal sense of ecology to illustrate the fragile, cyclic, and interdependent patterns of nature. A simple, mock-classical typographic approach was used to honor the nature handbooks of the early twentieth century.