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What is Re-nourish?

Re-nourish.com is the industry's first truly independent online toolkit for sustainable graphic design. By providing reliable, accessible sustainability tools untethered to commercial interests, we empower graphic designers to implement sustainable decision making in their day-to-day work. Our mission is nothing short of changing the industry, helping truly sustainable graphic design become what design is, not merely what it "could be."

What do people think?

We continue to receive phenomenal support throughout both the industry we're working to change and beyond:

Who is Re-nourish?

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LinkedIn Eric Benson
Partner, Outreach Lead
Eric is currently an Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at the University of Illinois. He has worked as a professional designer for such companies as Razorfish and Texas Instruments. His research as a professor explores how design can be sustainable and consequently how to teach it. Eric has a BFA in Industrial/Graphic design from the University of Michigan and an MFA in Design from the University of Texas.
Yvette Perullo Headshot
LinkedIn Yvette Perullo
Partner, Multimedia Lead
Yvette is an Art Director at Sage Systems in Boston, MA. She teaches about sustainability and ethics in graphic design as an adjunct professor at the New England School of Art and Design at Suffolk University. Her work with Re-nourish is a further extension of her graduate thesis, RethinkDesign.org, an award-winning resource for graphic designers.
Jess Sand Headshot
LinkedIn Jess Sand
Partner, Content Lead
Writer and designer Jess Sand runs Roughstock Studios, a San Francisco-based communications studio serving independently-minded organizations. Jess has a certificate in sustainable business management, a BA in creative writing, and an incessant need to question the status quo. Her contributions to Re-nourish reflect her belief that business can and should be an agent of positive social change.

Contributors

LinkedIn Israel Alvarez
Back-End/Content Management
LinkedIn Seth Benson
Front-End Usability/CSS
LinkedIn Eren Butler
Content Development/Outreach
LinkedIn Jessica Capoblanco
Design Intern
LinkedIn Shannon McAvoy
Web Developer
LinkedIn Meghan McClain
Design/Critic/Researcher
George Viamontes
Back-End/PHP
Bryan Weber
Tools/Back-End/PHP/SQL

Transparency

As the first and only completely free, completely independent resource for sustainable graphic design, we do not accept financial support from printers, paper manufacturers, or other commercial interests tied to the design industry, nor do we accept advertising on our site. This allows us to provide unbiased information based on sound environmental science, industry best practices, and our own research.

We don't, however, promise to have all the answers. Technology and best practices are changing every day, so we're constantly updating our recommendations, definitions, standards, and resource databases.

Re-nourish provides the following frameworks to assess design projects:

renourish logo bullet Print design projects
renourish logo bullet Packaging design projects
renourish logo bullet Digital design projects
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If you have additional questions, you can reach us through our Contact section.