UPCOMING EVENT- 23rd July 2011 (Saturday)

WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY 2011

What is World Environment Day?

World Environment Day is an annual event that is aimed at being the biggest and most widely celebrated global day for positive environmental action. 

What is the purpose for World Environment Day?

To in calculate environmental awareness to the public and to ensure a cleaner, greener and brighter outlook for themselves and future generations.

To stimulate awareness of the environment and enhances political attention and public action.

Who can participate in this event?

Everyone counts in this initiative and World Environment Day relies on everyone to make it happen! 

Come join us for World Environment Day

Saturday (23rd July 2011) 

10am-6pm

IKEA

Thanks for the awesome time!

Hi everyone!

We can finally call it a day (for now)! We would like to give a huge THANK YOU to everyone who supported us in anyway- helping publicize the event, being our customers at our handicraft & caricature booth, or even just dropping by to say hi! We had tons of fun and we hope you did too.

Two of our group members, Cedric Cha and Yap Wai Hou, won second and third prize respectively in the Eco Bag Design Competition. They would like to thank everyone for their unending support.

Special thanks to Mr Jay Lim, the lecturers and staff of Saito College, CUTOUT Magazine, The Weld, everyone who made this event possible, and lastly, YOU! For just dropping by our humble blog! It means the world to us.

Thanks again and see you soon!

7 ½°C Up Close: Melvin

Melvin Foo Hoong Chuan aka Melvin. Designer.


"Anyone can be a hero if he wants to."

Check us out at our booth tomorrow!

The months of hard work and anticipation finally boil down to event day tomorrow! We are excited and ready to roll!

Be sure to drop by (details below) and say hi. Check out our very own 7 ½°C booth selling handicrafts (notebooks, postcards, necklaces, bracelets, etc.) made from recycled items.

DATE: 19th March, 2011, Saturday
TIME: 10am-5pm
VENUE: The Weld Shopping Centre: 76, Jalan Raja Chulan, 50200 Kuala Lumpur

See you there!

7 ½°C Up Close: DaisyJun "DJ"

Daisy Yong Jun Lee aka DaisyJun "DJ". Designer. Loves children and making happy scars in everyone's life.

"Life is a ticket to the greatest show on earth. When one door of happiness closes, another opens; But often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us."

2 days away!

Hey everyone!

We're only 2 days away! Time has passed so quickly while we were so busily having fun preparing for this event.

We also have good news! The 10 finalists for the Graphic Goes Green 2011 Eco Bag Design Competition have been announced, and 2/10 of them are members of 7 ½°C!

Do come visit us...

DATE: 19th March, 2011, Saturday

TIME: 10am-5pm

VENUE: The Weld Shopping Centre: 76, Jalan Raja Chulan, 50200 Kuala Lumpur

…and check out the handicrafts sold at our booth, and also see if one of us wins the Eco Bag Design Competition!

See you there!

Design Can Change

Hello reader!

We're drawing closer and closer to event day. We can't wait for it and we hope you feel the same!

Today we look at Design Can Change, an eco-movement by designers, for designers.

"Design Can Change is an initiative aimed at uniting the world's graphic designers to use their influence and purchasing power to combat climate change. It was developed by smashLAB, a design firm based in Vancouver, BC.

"Objectives

According to the website, the Design Can Change initiative intends to:

• Bring together the design community to leverage our collective strength

• Establish a set of definitive standards that we can all readily implement

• Showcase the work of designers committed to the environment

• Promote designers and studios who embrace sustainable practices

• Raise awareness of the importance of sustainable-thinking

One of its objectives was to highlight the fact that designers influence the buying decisions of businesses and organizations with massive advertising budgets and being in control of such vast purse strings gives committed designers the ability to make a huge difference.

"Pledge

At the core of the initiative is a pledge that asks for a designer’s commitment to a sustainable practice and green mindset. The pledge's five guidelines require that its signators:

• engage in the topic,

• consider their choices carefully,

• put their knowledge to use,

• share information with others, and

• unite with the community to spark change.

Designers who take the pledge are listed in the site's searchable directory of like-minded studios.

"Results

When the Design Can Change website went live in April 2007, it was one of the first websites dedicated to the graphic designer's relationship to the issues surrounding climate change and one of a few online resources for sustainable graphic design.

Design Can Change quickly gained significant recognition with the international design community, and by May 2008, it had acquired over 1800 pledges from designers in 77 different countries. Since its launch, it has won awards and received mentions on popular design portals, industry publications, and hundreds of blogs. Articles about the initiative have been published by The Vancouver Sun and The Globe and Mail.

As a result of Design Can Change, smashLAB’s Creative Director, Eric Karjaluoto, has been invited to speaking events put on by design associations such as HOW Magazine, AIGA, and New Media BC.

In April 2008, TIME Magazine selected Design Can Change for inclusion in the Design 100. TIME's annual Design 100 lists "the people and ideas behind today's most influential design"."

Source: Wikipedia

Read, learn, and participate in Design Can Change. [click]