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Marine Debris Typeface

Not so long ago I wrote about Ryman Eco sustainable font that was created to use less ink.   Now a new font project by Dion Star highlights the ongoing problem of plastic trash in our oceans by using found pieces of plastic that represent a letter of the alphabet. Graphic Designer Dion Star’s typeface is aptly named Marine Debris …

Plastic Free Tuesday

Have you ever started out on a diet or committed to an assignment, but given yourself one day off to make the diet/task not too hard? Or picked a day of the week where you give up something, like meat on Monday ? Hong Kong airport was filled with advertising encouraging visitors to choose a meat less dish on Mondays . It is a great in…

Make up shake up: the update

It has been some time since I made the pledge to shake out my make up bag and replace what I was using with simple and kind ingredients. In that time I have been busily reading and testing. The biggest hurdle was not wearing conventional makeup anymore. It was hard and my face felt naked for the first week. As I mentioned before I …

I am going to China!

Image from tumblr.com The builder and I are having a holiday China. I am excited for our first trip overseas together. Plus I get to revisit one of my favorite cities, Hong Kong. We will be spending most of our time in Yangshauo. This is the first trip I have actively sought out eco minded accommodation. Our first choice was an…

New sustainable font

UK design agency Hogarth and custom font makers Monotype have come up with a sustainable font for Grey London to be used across Ryman Stationary and hopefully implement further. Ryman Eco has been designed in a way that when printed would save ink. On close examination each letter looks to have gaps making it look like a d…

We should value our stuff

I am not anti-plastic. I understand that in some aspects of society it does play an important part. I have mentioned it here . But I am anti waste and against the misuse of plastic. Plastic is constantly being created and falls into our lives in so many different forms. Some of it is beneficial but a lot of the plastic produced i…