About Me

I am a graphic designer and letterpress printer, who was educated as an environmental engineer. Now as an instructor at Art Center College of Design, I have been able to combine both professions by teaching the principles of sustainable design and the ‘lifecycle’ approach to the design disciplines. The responsibilities of the designer have broadened to include all aspects of product life, and the more we know, the more we can do.

Member Since

May 18, 2006

Sites

• Art Center College of Design

What is the next...

Purchase you’ll make?

Tomatoes

Trend in design?

Simplification, reduction in the number of materials and their volume

Car you’d like to own?

None

Big step you’d like to make?

Convert my design practice to producing only print products which adhere to sustainable principles.

Fad that will fade?

Being ‘green’……..it will cease being a fad and simply be a way of life.

Vacation you’ll take?

The beach

Thing you’re going to fight for?

Opposing ‘once-through cooling’ for California coastal power plants

Secret that’s going to leak?

It benefits business and the economy to be sustainable

Hollywood blockbuster going to be about?

A disaster movie about global warming, or maybe a combo: Los Angeles in the wake of a flood and earthquake

Life you’ll lead?

Always in school, always learning

Fountain of youth?

Who needs it? We’re living too long as it is.

Book you’ll read?

‘The Fetishist,’ by Michel Tournier

Thing that will change the world?

Time

Guilty-pleasure food in which you’ll indulge?

Foie Gras [just one LAST time]

Person to whom you’ll say, “I love you”?

Rick