By Richard Romano on March 12th, 2013 - Comments Off
I am a big fan of Boise Paper’s weekly (on Fridays) Tweet Roundup which helps separate the wheat from the chaff in the cacophony of the Twitterverse (wow, that’s a fatal collision of metaphors isn’t it?). One interesting link shows a use for all those unused phone books: art. Of course, if by chance you…
By Richard Romano on March 12th, 2013 - Comments Off
Remember to send up the white smoke when you are finished reading. How To Align Profit and Sustainability (Environmental Leader) Design to Re-nourish (Re-nourish) ICYMI: Nanoparticles in donuts and the world’s greenest drugstore (GreenBiz) Analysts warn markets biased against clean energy (GreenBiz) Cisco, IBM, Intel Win Climate Leadership Awards (Environmental Leader) The Robobee Project Is…
By Richard Romano on March 11th, 2013 - 2 Comments
The Gray Lady, aka The New York Times, announced last week that it is shuttering its “Green” Blog, which is a shame as it was a very helpful resource to which I would link often. At the same time, the Times has closed its Environment news desk. There has been no small degree of consternation…
By Richard Romano on March 6th, 2013 - Comments Off
Our friends at the Sustainable Green Printing Partnership (SGP), a sustainability certification organization for the commercial printing industry, announced this week that they are partnering with Re-nourish, an online community dedicated to awareness and action for sustainability in the graphic design community. The partnership will make it easy for sustainability-minded design and production professionals to…
By Richard Romano on March 4th, 2013 - Comments Off
The Print Apply iPhone app has a variety of tools for print media professionals, including a spine width calculator for different paper grades, an equivalent weight table for those going from grammage to pounds or vice versa, a virtual proportion wheel, a built-in QR code reader, a link to the Print Media Centr for news…
By Richard Romano on March 4th, 2013 - Comments Off
Did you know that last Friday, March 1, was the “National Day of Unplugging”? This is said to be a “holiday” (etymology notwithstanding) in which we turn off our gadgets and connect with friends, family, or ourselves offline for 24 hours. Actually, I had no idea; no one was tweeting it.
By Richard Romano on March 1st, 2013 - Comments Off
From Printing Industries of America: We are at the deadline for nominations for the William D. Schaeffer Environmental Award. See below for more information and if you are interested in nominating an individual, but will not be able to get the nomination submitted today, please let us know so we can work with you on…
By Richard Romano on February 28th, 2013 - 1 Comment
While it will make “rock, paper, scissors” a murkier game, more and more varieties of “stone paper” are appearing on the market. TerraSkin is one that I have written about before (in the context of wide-format substrates), but as per a recent article over at Wired, more varieties are appearing: The newest on the scene…
By Richard Romano on February 27th, 2013 - Comments Off
Emily Dickinson wrote that “hope is the thing with feathers,” while Woody Allen added, “The thing with feathers has turned out to be my nephew. I must take him to a specialist in Zurich.” Now, however, the thing with feathers is the inspiration for a new imaging technology. Namely, the peacock. Biomimicry or biomimetics is…
By Richard Romano on February 26th, 2013 - Comments Off
One of my favorite plays is Eugene Ionesco’s The New Tenant, a “theater of the absurd” piece in which a gentleman moves into a new London apartment and throughout the play two furniture movers continually bring in all of his possessions, piling it up around him until he is virtually buried in it all. Toward…
