Thoughtful Design—with attention to sustainability
(is that redundant?)
Michelle Sauve ensures that your organization's unique vision, value system and voice provide the perspective for executing creative design solutions. Michelle has twenty years of experience with diverse projects (print design and production, magazine art direction, web site design, identity development) requiring a broad range of skills. She looks forward to discussing your newest project with you!
Long an environmental activist, Michelle brings a passion to tread lightly on the planet to her design practice and will advise you on environmentally and socially responsible design choices on the road to achieving your business and communications goals.
It's so easy TO ADDRESS ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY IN your DESIGN PROjects
Less waste.
Less toxicity.
Less energy consumption.
A FEW SUSTAINABILITY guidelines
Raw Materials
- Specify recycled papers with a high post-consumer fiber content or FSC-certified papers
- Use paper that has been bleached with a chlorine-free process
- Ask your printer to use vegetable-based inks
- Become aware of the energy consumed and waste produced in the manufacture of the raw materials you require
- Support those businesses with a commitment to alternative energies, environmental stewardship, and reducing their carbon footprint
Design Process
- Design for recyclability
- Proof as long as possible in .pdf format onscreen
- Educate your audience by identifying the environmentally sound choices made during your project on your printed piece
- Be aware of the impositioned layout of your project on the press sheet to eliminate wasted paper
In the Office
- Close the recycling loop by purchasing office products with recycled content
- Recycle your own ink cartridges and office consumables
- Conserve electricity
Love the planet.