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Roughstock Studios' Library

http://www.roughstockstudios.com/library.html

The Roughstock Library explores the intersection of sustainability, business, and culture. The studio is the business face of Jess Sand, who develops creative communications for nonprofit and for-profit innovators, as well as creative agencies working with them.

• Added on: Oct 24th, 2009
• Country: United States
• Language: English

• Author: Roughstock Jess
• Listed in: Culture Graphic Design
• Tags: design environment Communications sustainability copywriting green

Recent Posts

• We Are All Environmental Journalists Now

  Posted on Wednesday December 9th, 2009 at 19:11 in politics, business, pop, sustainability, nonprofits

  Interesting take on the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen from the Guardian:"The problem is getting anywhere near the truth. Most countries do their diplomacy in private and do not want anyone—let alone the press—to know what goe...

• Zip Code Map

  Posted on Monday December 7th, 2009 at 10:40 in design, pop, info_design

  Just a cool little visualization experiment by Robert Kosara over at Eager Eyes:The map connects all the zip codes in the U.S. (save Hawaii and Alaska; you can view those at the original blog post) in ascending order. Although it doesn't reveal any g...

• Using Design Elements to Support Meaning

  Posted on Friday December 4th, 2009 at 16:05 in Marketing, ads, nonprofits, info_design

  Nice example of meaning manifested through a carefully chosen design element:The postcard above accompanied a magazine insert encouraging breast self-examinations. I'll bet it would have been even more effective had the emboss been of an actual breas...

• Perhaps I forgot to mention?

  Posted on Wednesday December 2nd, 2009 at 15:44 in business, design, sustainability, roughstock, green_design

  Just a couple of quick, albeit shameless, plugs:GD USA featured me in their current green issue (pictured above). You can read it online by clicking on my lovely mug (lower left corner), or download the PDF version."Why did your firm become intereste...

• Flickr Upload: The Argus C3 Brick

  Posted on Monday November 30th, 2009 at 11:24 in Photography, design, typography

  I picked up this Argus C3 "brick" camera a ways back in Rhode Island, and am still in love with the manual that came with it. Based on the camera's serial number (and the stunning layout of the manual), it looks like this sucker dates to 1956.To chec...

• Happy Thanksgiving to All of You Out There in Internetland

  Posted on Thursday November 26th, 2009 at 06:00 in Personal, foodbev, roughstock

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