SODO DOJO / GREEN DESIGN

SODO Creative has “walked the walk” since our inception…but now we’re “talking the talk,” too. On September 18, 2008 we presented our talk “PUSH and PULL: Finding your way through a forest of facts” to members of AIGA Seattle. The event was held at Rocky Salskov’s photography studio in Belltown. The organizers did a fantastic job pulling things together and were quick to respond to some major technical hurdles (thanks all!) Jeff opened up the presentation and introduced us to the group of about 30 designers present. I continued, providing some information comparing green printers to regular printers (weighing cost and impact on the environment), adding a few more green design facts before introducing Eric Benson, founder of Re-nourish–our business liaison,tele-presenting all the way from Urbana, IL (thanks to the wonder that is Skype!) The presentation went great and we had a lot of great feedback. Thanks to everyone for being there and thanks to AIGA Seattle Green Salon for the invitation…it was a great experience and we hope to get out there a bit more to talk about the wonderful things ahead for green design in communications. Stay tuned for more info on Gamut soon to come…

We’re excited about the launch of our latest project for Seattle real estate agent Scott Waterman. Scott came to us through a referral looking for quick turnaround on a project that required a fair amount of innovation. The world of real estate websites is comprised largely of standardized templates from the dawn of Web design, so we had a lot of room to improve. What we came up with (we think) was great innovation on a website that required function far and above form. The site (at www.arboretumhouse.com) uses an open source script to magnify and click through the gallery images, as well as Flash components to highlight some of the best photographs of the home. Finally, the site runs on 100% solar powered Web servers, available through our very own green Web hosting plans. (E-mail us at greenhosting@sodocreative.com for more info.) Check it out and let us know what you think!