Thursday, February 18

Doors open 6:45, presentations start at 7:15
Location: Ziba Design 810 NW Marshall, auditorium entrance
FREE Members & Student Members / $5 Non-Members & Student Non-Members

Join us February 18th for our second “SHIFT: A Green Salon” to hear 10 five-minute presentations from designers, creatives, and innovators that are making communications better and more sustainable.

Bring your own mug for FREE BEER, otherwise $5 per cup. Ziba auditorium doors open at 6:45, and no admittance after 7:15 (so that we don’t interrupt our presenters). A short Q&A session will follow presentations, as well as mingling. We will also be raffling off a few prizes, and free admittance to ReSource: Green Vendor Expo April 22 – $30 value.

The ten presenters that will be educating and inspiring us on sustainable design are:

• Don’t be square! : From parent sheet to final printed item
  Austin Whipple, Creative Director, Pinball Publishing
• Propelling a movement: Design, technology, and cooperation to support the local economy
  Katrina Scotto di Carlo, Supportland
• SCRAP
  Elaine Volpe, marketing manager, Slate Technologies
• Pros & cons of materials in large format printing
  Dallas Roemelling, OBP Signs & Graphics
• CMYG: Projecting authenticity in a crowd of Greenie McFakersons
  Daniel Eckhart, Numerosign
• Utilizing water-based inks for apparel & textile graphics
  PJ Portlock, Designer, Prolabro
• What is normal? And why?
  Jonathan Bean
• Shave the world
  David Vanadia, Interdisciplinary Artist
• re:active, and the sustainability of design professionals’ demographics
  Michael Etter, Senior Art Director, Ziba Design
• A journey in sustainable product & packaging design
  Ken Tomita, TomitaDesigns & Grove

For more info, contact Lisa Holmes, AIGA Portland Sustainability Chair.

MISSION of AIGA PORTLAND’S SUSTAINABILITY COMMITTEE | To provide on and offline environments for designers and thought leaders to discuss sustainability, green practices, the future role of visual communications, and beyond.