The Intersection of Design and Sustainability

Here’s a little presentation I gave last week as part of an AIGA Colorado event at the Denver Art Museum. The night was an introduction for the local creative community to the Living Principles, which is the sustainability platform embraced by AIGA. The main speaker for the evening was Alex Bogusky, who I’ve been working with for the last several months on the FearLess Revolution and our new initiative, COMMON.

My talk was a bit of a transition from the Living Principles to Alex’s presentation. I’ve never really done this kind of thing before, but the opportunity came up and I thought it could be fun. The fact that I was getting over a cold definitely didn’t help my lack of public speaking skills. But there was a sold out auditorium there to see Alex and thousands more watching a live stream, so luckily my nerves went away just before going up and it was indeed a lot of fun.

Thanks a lot to Evelyn and Charles of AIGA for giving me the opportunity. And to a lot of other people who have helped inspire these ideas: Annie Leonard of The Story of Stuff, Alex Steffen of Worldchanging, designer Bruce Mau, my girlfriend Amy Breunissen, my good friend Brent Sainsbury, and of course Alex Bogusky who has helped me fear a little less in pursuit of innovation, creativity and happiness.

Thanks for watching,
Jeff Oeth

(Additional references: Chris Jordan & Pangea Organics)