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Renourish

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Brief Summary

Re-nourish is a nonprofit organization that provides free online tools and resources that help educate about and provide practical actions to implement life-centered systems thinking in the visual communication design field.

Created
May 1, 2006
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Renourish

Mobile · UI · UX · Branding · Nonprofit · Systems Thinking Education

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Design Problem

Create an open-source online presence that provides actionable and practical sustainable strategies and tools for the graphic designer.

www.re-nourish.org

Research Questions

How do you practice sustainable design as a graphic designer? How do you teach sustainability to graphic designers?

Life-Centered Systems Thinking
Life-Centered Systems Thinking
Climate Friendly IxD
Climate Friendly IxD
Climate Friendly Print Design
Climate Friendly Print Design
Design Strategies for Activism
Design Strategies for Activism
Mobile view of the website
Mobile view of the website
Spread for Systems Thinking for the Graphic Designer 101: A toolkit for Making Positive Impact
Spread for Systems Thinking for the Graphic Designer 101: A toolkit for Making Positive Impact
Cover for Systems Thinking for the Graphic Designer 101: A toolkit for Making Positive Impact
Cover for Systems Thinking for the Graphic Designer 101: A toolkit for Making Positive Impact
Spread for Systems Thinking for the Graphic Designer 101: A toolkit for Making Positive Impact
Spread for Systems Thinking for the Graphic Designer 101: A toolkit for Making Positive Impact

Research Outcomes

Renourish is currently an award winning 501(c)3 based out of Boston, MA. It’s being used daily by designers and design educators globally to integrate sustainability and systems thinking into their practice and classrooms.

“A wonderful web app where designers can figure out the optimum way to utilize printing with as little waste as possible.” – Stefan Sagmeister

Awards

  • AIGA (RE) Design Award
  • Communicator Award

Credits

Co-Founders: Yvette Perullo & Eric Benson

Tools/Back-End/PHP/SQL: Bryan Webber

Illustrator: Veronica Pham

Front-End Developer: Nate Lamkin

Connected Writing

  • Design to Renourish: Sustainable Graphic Design in Practice

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