Archive for the ‘Events’ Category

Really Green - A Practical Guide

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

Today's mail brought a copy of Really Green by Debra Lynn Dadd. It's a print-on-demand book, printed on 100% post consumer recycled paper on a Xerox iGen. Fits the bill of being a book that is produced by green processes, but it's also a book about "green." Sometimes it's easy to ...

Making Your Tradeshow Booth Green - the Xerox Way

Monday, June 9th, 2008

Last week in Making Your Trade Shows Green, we offered some advice from event organizer and exhibit designer/manufacturer MC2. You can get a copy of a handy little presentation that outlines lots of ways to ensure that trade show participation "treads lightly" on the environment. At drupa, Xerox has taken the ...

Celebrate World Environment Day - June 5

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

World Environment Day was established by the United Nations General Assembly in 1972 to mark the opening of the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment. Another resolution, adopted by the General Assembly the same day, led to the creation of UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme). Shrinking the world's carbon footprint is ...

Making Your Trade Shows Green

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

The spring trade show season is pretty much coming to an end; and with the close of drupa 08 we'll have a little breather before the fall season begins again. So now is a good time to start thinking about how to make your booth "greener" for the next event ...

SustainPro Conference & Expo - Follows Graph Expo 08

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

While I thought I discovered something new, it turns out that the SustainPro Conference & Expo to be held October 29-30, Chicago, really WAS intentionally scheduled back-to-back with Graph Expo 08. Jay Whitehead, President and Publisher of Crossing Media Group,* told me: "Yes, we did schedule SustainPro for Oct 29-30 to overlap ...

Martin Schoeppler, FUJIFILM Dimatix, Talks About Printing Solar Film

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

(For those who prefer to read this document off-line, you can download a PDF version here) While wandering the halls at Drupa 2004, I discovered a company printing images on cookies (read about cookies at Drupa 2004 here). I've never been one to pass up a chance to have a cookie and ...

Trade Shows and Conferences Go “Virtual”

Monday, May 26th, 2008

Every day we hear more and more about the perils of air travel, it's hard on the passengers and hard on the environment! Frank Romano has long eschewed airplanes, now it is clear that he was ahead of his time. (But then, Frank has always been a bit ahead of ...

Thinking about a “green” trademark? So is everyone else!

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

Well, folks, we're definitely approaching the top of the "Green" Hype Cycle! How do we know? We've been told that "green is the new black," taken from the fashion world, and also that "green is the new green," as in money. And everyone wants to go green! Trademark filings may not be ...

Quick - You Can Still Make It to HOW 08 in Boston!

Monday, May 19th, 2008

HOW 08 Design Conference, through May 21, Haynes Conference Center, Boston Whether you ARE a graphic designer, EMPLOY a graphic designer, WORK with a graphic designer, if you're within reasonable distance of Boston - get to the HOW08 Design Conference going on now! It's titled "The creative, business and technology conference for ...