Tags · Viridian Design Movement  

• 13-Mar-2024

  
  Viridian was science fiction writer Bruce Sterling’s effort to report on and think about climate change and what design might do about it. He declared himself “Pope-Emperor” of Viridian. With 500 Viridian Notes over 10 years, from 1998 to 2008, he wrote, and I learned about climate science, news on extreme weather and design across the planet. It was terrifying, edifying, and inspirational. I entered 5 Viridian Design contests. Never won, but these were great exercises for my developing Illustrator, PhotoShop and web skills. This is “Greeny Megawatt” a modernized Reddy Kilowatt. As part of revisiting EVERYTHING on my site artlung dot com I’ve updated the pages they live on and integrated them into my #WordPress custom theme. Fun time capsule.

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• 11-Mar-2024

  
  Revamping Viridian Contest Entry pages One of the earliest usages of my site was for small projects. One kind of project was participating in Viridian Design Contests. What were they? The contests are were opportunities for graphic or conceptual creativity. Logos, posters, teapots, lamps, that sort of thing. We do this to amuse ourselves, and to give some coherent form...
• 21-Nov-2021

  
  Citysuit! In July 1999–or rather 01999 as Long Now would write it out–I designed an entry for the Viridian Couture Contest. The design brief can be read here, here are some excerpts: (((The natural question then arises: what should really wealthy, technically proficient, middle-aged people dress like? What kind of clothes will garner them the rewards...
• 09-Jan-2002
  Reorg-O-Mania! I’ve reorganized the directory structure of my viridian design contest entries — and made a hub for (my) things Viridian: Viridian Design Movement / Joe’s Viridian Contest Entries.