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Your Next Bag Is Hanging On A Lamppost Downtown

Banner for AIGA Urban Forest Project

Interesting banners, but what’s it all about? you may ask. What’s this Urban Forest Project? Well, you may be digging around for your mobile or a stick of Juicyfruit in the bottom of a bag made from one of those banners some time soon.

For the Urban Forest project, the AIGA hung 150 banners by Portland-based designers, artists, photographers, and illustrators in downtown and the Pearl which overtly or obliquely visually reference tree as metaphor for sustainability in a run up to Earth Day. Printed with water-based inks and partially biodegradable materials, the banners are destined to have second lives—like the wildly popular Swiss Freitag messenger bags made from used truck tarpaulins and Vy & Elle bags made from recycled billboard vinyl—fashioned into bags by Queen Bee Creations. The bags will be sold at auction to benefit Friends of Trees. Read the rest of this entry »

POSTED: April 26th, 2007 | AUTHOR: lisa | FILED UNDER: design | TAGS: | No Comments »