Web and Graphic Design Students Think Outside The Box For Sustainability

Students at the College of New Caledonia are displaying their work on ways for sustainability.

Web and Graphic Design students were tasked to come up with an idea on how designers can effect change in our world and needed to complete the project on a cardboard cut out and put it on display in the library for everyone to see.

.@cnc_bc_ca is holding its web and graphic design for sustainability display in the library pic.twitter.com/xr7u0OhenT

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Instructor Peter Maides says this was a different approach to the way the students normally learn.

“Graphic design students tend to spend quite a bit of time in cyber space. Everything is digital and they’re all hooked up and working in a fairly clean and actually non-human environment in a lot of ways, so I wanted them to do something human.”

Maides added the whole idea was modelled on the idea of a grade 7 science fair, where students have a display and you explain something in a relativity simple way even though its a high concept idea.

Angel Suarez is an international student from Mexico and says this idea was interesting because it makes us concious about what we should be doing.

“Here you have more resources and materials and in Mexico we are trying to use as much as we can. We have a lot of ideas like eco design for indoors which is growing things in your walls or some other place in your home to give more fresh air and also in the cool weather to warm your house.”

Madison Minck got her idea from driving her truck and thinking about how oil has a negative effect on our world.

“You grow algae in a hot sunny area in the world, it has to be cultivated in race way ponds. Then they convert it into oil by using an oil press.”

This project is a way for students to prepare for the final design show that takes place near the end of the year where they will be showcasing their animation and 3D renderings.